Dear friends and family,

   Well today i woke up early to help get lunch started and had a little extra time on my hands and decided to get this done or at least started i think i just posted one last Tuesday?? so i guess i pick up were i dropped of... well lets see Wednesday we had school and then we had our normal shopping trip. We had cottage meetings in the evening with a older couple that live close to were one of my school children live. Then that evening we went to go pick up 3 of Amanda's friends at the airport. We kinda made it a fun little trip by stopping for food on our way down. Thursday we had school,hot lunch and then in the evening we went to Sarah and Lori's place for supper and 7's. By the way 7's is the big game here that we (school teachers) play a lot when we get together...it can get pretty competitive!!

     Friday we had school. Actually Amanda took of today to hang out with her friends they went to the beach. They said it was fun but it was overcast so they didn't get a lot of sun. that evening we went to Pastor Johns for supper. Its so sad that was the last meal we will have at their place since they are leaving this Wednesday!! :( They have been here for around 12 to 15 years....They will be very sorely missed! That evening after supper we had girls club at our house since it was Natalie's turn to lead out..our house was packed!!! There we around 10 girls and 8 of us with Amanda's friends so 18 all together...

     Saturday we got up to rain. It has been raining a lot lately......Anyway around 9:30 it stopped a little and we walked out to the bus stop and while there waiting on a bus it started raining again. Anyway we went to town a shopped around for a while. It was fun to do some shopping finally i hadn't been in most of the stores we visited. It was kinda nice to get some Christmas shopping done....i cant believe that in a little more then a month its going to be Christmas!! We shopped for a few hours and then rode up in the bus again and hung out at our house eating lunch. Amanda had asked James to take up to a few sight seeing places that day so that her friends could see some of the island that you cant bus to. so anyway around 1 we took of to see two water falls and a lake which i had already seen but it was fun anyway...and then we went to go visit some wild mona monkeys that i think are going extinct but they still live in the wild they just aren't really wild you can feed them bananas and stuff. we got to see two of then..they were so cute! One of them liked me or something because he would keep jumping up on my shoulder...And no i didn't have any bananas. ;) we then went to town and ate close by the water. Afterward we walked of to a fort which when we got there had her gate locked so we sat in a gazebo out side and watched the sunset and a cruise ship leave.

pic. compliments of Lori

That evening we wanted to play volleyball up at the court with limes but then there was a big basketball tournament or something going on up there so we just stayed home and played games.. well that raps up my week so i guess i'll go get ready for church... Love Crystal
p.s. Lori and my paper work got rejected but it sounds like its not that big of a deal we just have to reapply and pay a little fee monthly to stay in the country.