Peace and Quiet!!

All of our visitors have come and gone. It was lots of fun having everyone down, and H is now known at all of the tourist attractions on the island! We are counting down our last days at this nice villa. We got an extension to our temporary quarter living, so we will be moving into another nice waterfront home for a month before we move into our condo.

R's big highlight was his encounter with the iguana. We were in the pool, and what do you know, here comes the iguana right up to the side of the pool. R decides to give him a couple of splashes and next thing we knew, he had jumped right in. Not knowing if iguanas could swim or not, and not wanting him to drown (well, H anyway), we scoop him out with the pool net. R decides to play around with him a bit before he chases him off. Needless to say, they have not been back since then, but it has only been a few days.

We have finally worked a dive into our schedules and made use of the equipment and dive package we bought when we moved here. It was a great dive and we are looking forward to more diving soon. Our dive was in Salt River Bay which is where Columbus landed. Another fun thing we have done in Salt River was a kayak tour. We left at dusk and kayaked around the bay. When it finally got dark, we went over to a smaller bay surrounded by mangroves where there are a lot of plankton in the water. Plankton are microscopic organisms and when disturbed, light up in the water. So as we were paddling, it was like we had a flashlight on the end of our oar. It was so cool how the water lit up when we were paddling!

R is staying very busy at work. He has already traveled to Puerto Rico about four times and St. Thomas once. H is very excited about his next trip to Puerto Rico since she gets to tag along and go shopping! R also has a couple of trips back to Dallas for trial prep and trials in the coming months. H is very jealous, but hoping to go back in January for a couple of weeks. H is working about two days a week and her schedule is usually very busy. On her days off, she is hard at work on her new tan!

R's newest co-worker and his wife arrived on the island a couple of weeks ago. We are looking forward to getting to know them better and hoping to go together on buying a sailboat! We'll keep you posted on that one!