July 2
So this morning i woke up around 9:30…It was great cause i woke up, looked out my crack in the blinds, saw the BeAuTiFuL tropical scenery, and went “WOW!!!! I CAN’T BELIEVE I AM HERE!!!!!!!!!” It was sooo exciting! Shortly after i got up, A. Andrea and the kids and i, had breakfast…U. Mike had already gone to the clinic to work. After breakfast i took a shower and got ready for the day. Then after i was finally done, i played games with Alissa for probably a 1/2 hour. I have re-learned what it is like to have an inquisitive 4 year old CONSTANTLY around! 
i would say something or do something (or even NOTHING at all for that matter) and the first words out of her mouth are “Whyyyyy?:” WHy this, why that…lol She has GOT to be the most cute and sassy and rebellious and funny 4 year old girl there is…So we played “her version” of monoply and we played “Alissa’s Version” of Go Fish …Nest….My bad…we were dealing with birds…not fish. Finally after probably 20 minutes i was able to tear myself away from her so i unpacked my room…
(at this point in my post, i had fallen asleep on the couch…and my aunt came and woke me up and then i went to bed and now it is morning…and i am finishing writing this…)
so yeah….pretty much i just spent all my time this morning messaging and talking to people on Facebook… lol…so i don’t have time to put this in anything but point form….
So after i unpacked, we had lunch…we had rice and curry and cucumbers! it was yummy. Then after lunch, i completely finished unpacking. In the afternoon, A. Andrea took me on a tour of the clinic! When i walked out the front door, i felt like i was in a TROPICAL paradise! It was AMAZING! to be able to see the outside beauty pretty much for the first time…cause i came in so early that morning. It was beautiful! Anyways, at the clinic, which is right across from the house… I got to meet some of the staff, and talk to them. I am really looking forward to working there! It is going to be really fun! I met the visiting doctor! Mr. Joseph. He is really nice! Anyways…i am running out of time so i need to make this short. After the tour of the clinic, we went to take the kids to swimming lessons…After swimming we came home and just chilled until U. Mike came back from work. I got on the computer and caught up a bit on how everyone was doing. Then we drove to the Carnival! It was fun. I went on a ride with Allen (my 7 yr. old cousin) then “the girls” (me, A. Andrea, and Alissa) rode on seat of the Ferris Wheel and “the boys” rode on the opposite seat!! man i haven’t been on a Ferris wheel in YEARS and it was SOOO MUCH FUN! We also walked to the beach to get a picture with the sunset! If it weren’t for the rock music in the background, it would have been a VERY lovely night to sit and contemplate life! Anyways, after we finished the ride on the Ferris Wheel, we drove to the street market for supper. BOY! that was an experience all of itself! it was SO cool! We first went by the Hyatt Hotel to take the kids to the bathroom, then we walked down into the market! It was really neat! U. Mike got me a FRESH green coconut to drink from! It was really cool cause the lady just took a huge knife (i am sure it was a machete) and cut a hole about the size of a dollar coin in the top of the coconut, and then just stuck a straw in it!!! lol…it didn’t taste like what i originally thought it would taste like, but it was still really good! I enjoyed it! We walked along and bought other things too. We got spring rolls, and a kind of bread that was similar to “Subway flatbread” but it was sweet and tasted like coconut. Then we went to a booth that sold smoothies. It was cool cause they had a bunch of flavors and we could pick whatever flavor combos we wanted! I got Orange Coconut Banana….it was a bit too banana-y. 
But it was still good! I didn’t realize until i looked later, but they had mocha flavoring….i was like “snap!” lol i should have gotten that…but i am glad i got more “island like” flavors! Well, after we got all the food we wanted, we went and sat down on the side of the street to eat. After a little bit, it started raining, so we all jumped up and moved to a covered place to finish eating our food. After a couple minutes the rain stopped and so we went to see the entertainment they had going on further down the street. We got up there just as a group of little hula girls were dancing. I bet the youngest one there was no older than 6 or 7! But they did a great job! Then “the warriors” came out and did they little routine. They are a group of boys dressed up like warrous a then do a couple nice dental moves!pretty tricky hugs to say the least! Anyways, so after we watched them, we headed back to the car and I went to bed and crashed!
