Saturday, January 15, 2011

A change of scenery





As most of our close friends and family know... Ben, Sidney, I have moved. Ben transfered schools this semester to St. Eustatius (Statia). We feel like this was right for our family and are very thankful that is all worked out!
We are already enjoying our new island and surroundings. Statia is much flatter then Saba, so we can walk just about everywhere! This is a big plus since we don't own a car. Our apartment is in walking distance to the school and library, which is great for Ben. I am so excited to live with in walking distance to about 5 grocery stores.

Much like Saba, Statia is a beautiful island with lots of friendly people. At any given time, we can see chickens roaming the yard or cows, goats, or donkeys roaming the streets. Sidney absolutely loves seeing all the animals. A few mornings ago, there were two roasters on our front porch. Sidney and I decided to toss them some pieces of bread. Of course, Sidney loved seeing them eat and got so tickled to hear them cockadoodaldooo.....
Little did I know, we would have to hear this for the next 2 days. The roasters were stalking our front door waiting for more bread. Boy were they loud. Ben said "Haven't you ever heard the saying, 'don't feed the bears?'...well now you know why!"

Today Ben, Sidney, and I went exploring a bit. We walked all the way to the beach which was about 2 miles.

There was one spot along the beach that had hundreds of conck shells. I found a really pretty pink one that we decided to keep as a souvenir of Statia.






Then we walked back up and stopped at the park for lunch. Sidney had such a great time.
She fell asleep on the way up from the beach but woke up as soon as we arrived at the park. There are lots of characters painted on the inside and outside of the park gates. Sidney spotted Dora and just had to go hug her!

She played for about 45 minutes when we decided it was time to head home.

About 2 minutes way from the park, I realized that Sidney was looking out the side of her stroller, so I told her to sit up. She didn't move and because she had her sunglasses on, I didn't realize that she was sound asleep!!!

We have found that the Caribbean has many interesting street signs. Today, I think, I by far found the most interesting one. This sign was located in a cemetery.


You tell me what you think it means....

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