Welcome to the Jungle

We finally made it to Dominica. After an hour on the runway in Oklahoma City, to a "home alone" sprint through the Chicago airport to find out we missed our flight (we could see the plane pulling out), to a three hour night sleep in Miami with Givens, and a 4 hour layover in San Juan Puerto Rico, we made it to the beautiful island of Dominica.
The fly into Dominica was one of the most crazy flights I have ever had. After we arrived we took a 50 minute drive to the town of Picard where the school is located. We arrived at the school and they immediately took us to drop our stuff off at our new apartment. We are very pleased with our apartment. We secured a place before we came down here so we are glad that what we did was really great with out being able to see it prior to arrival. That is our apartment in the background. We live on Moo Cow Trail, and there are literally cows on trail to our apartment. And there is Christopher getting kind of close to the bull that lives next to our apartment.




After we went to the apartment we went back to the school for a school tour. It is pretty amazing. They have a lot of study decks where you are just over the ocean. You can hear the waves crash up against it. It is really neat.

Dinner was not exactly the highlight of our day. We went to a place called Bob's Chinese food and all I can say is that it was a struggle to get it down.

The next day was really fun. We got up and walked to campus and had a banana for lunch. They have banana farms here so if that tells you anything about how good the banana was. It was very sweet. Absolutely delicious. We then took care of some stuff for Christopher's school. And after going to the bank we decided we would eat at Subway, yes we have a subway! It was awesome. I think because we really hadn't eaten much but it was just like at home.

We went to the beach that afternoon and it was so beautiful. The beaches are black volcanic sand. It is really cool.




We are doing great and we can not believe we actually live here. We decided that our new theme song is going to be "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns and Roses because we truly feel like we are in the jungle. It is really weird that we have to walk everywhere and that the grocery stores are way less than a dollar general. It is truly amazing what God has created here. It is a completely different lifestyle here so we are learning to adjust to the island life. We miss everyone back at home very much and can't wait for you all to come visit so we can show you how amazing this island actually is. Please keep us in your prayers as we learn to adjust to this new lifestyle.