i'm back!!

Well it's 4:30 in the morning and I just got home about an hour ago! And I am jet lagged and wide awake! So my latest strategy is to stay up now and study for the two exams I have tomorrow and then perhaps take a nap in the afternoon and study some more! Enough about that though! I think I will post on my trip intermittently, because i have millions of pictures to go through and want to make sure I share them all! I will post some on here and some on my pictures blogs (link on right side) so be sure to check both! So I hear there was lots of snow and drizzle while I was gone! Did not miss that! Barbados has one type of weather: hot and sunny! Every day was at least thirty degrees and even if it drizzled a little bit or had a bit of cloud it was still boiling hot!

I arrived in Barbados only to find that my luggage was lost! I guess it didn't make the connection in Toronto.. So here I was with my jeans and sweater ready to face the heat of Barbados knowing that my luggage wouldn't arrive for at least 24 more hours! One of Lindie's relatives kindly lent me some shorts and a bathing suit though so that was nice. That night we went to church which was great! There was a musician from India there who was super humble and just all around very encouraging. Aftewards we went to Rachel's house for dinner which was great as well!

me and ashleigh at cafe sol in St. Lawrence Gap

Sunday our little rental car (we named her Betsy) arrived so we could bomb around the island. Of course, it's a bit different driving on the left hand side of the road and having pot holes everywhere and people driving on your side trying to avoid potholes and other obstacles! Always an adventure! Lindie and I started the morning off at Accra beach where I got my first burn (of many more to come...) I blamed that burn on Air Canada, because my luggage hadn't arrived and I had no sunscreen. But swimming was glorious (very salty water-not recommended for drinking) as well as lying in the sun! Afterwards we went to a mexican restaurant in what is called St. Lawrence Gap which was great! Good times and great people watching!!

The next day we set out on an adventure to go to the north point of the island (we were staying in the south). The maps aren't that great, because not all the roads are labelled and not all the roads are even on the map. And the roads aren't great because most of them are not labelled either and there will be a sign pointing you somewhere but then there won't be any more signs along the way! So anyway, with my amazing navigating skills we eventually ended up halfway there. We were on the right street but thought we'd ask for directions just to double check. Well, it turns out that the person sends us back the way we came! So we drove all the way half up and then came right back where we started! hahaha! I think that was like two or three hours later (it should have just taken about an hour to get up there..) Feeling slightly defeated we decided instead to go to Miami Beach and the Oistins fish market. We saw some big sea turtles in the water from the dock so that was fun and well worth it!

That night we went to a Bajan (Barbadian) restaurant called Brown Sugar which was wonderful! We had dolphin and flying fish! Okay, I like to say dolphin for the shock value because people immediately think of Flipper, but dolphin is a type of fish there! I would never eat flipper! come on now!

All right, that is all I will give you for now because I'm going to go shower, study for a bit and then go to church! it is now five am! haha.. tune in again for some more u pdates and pictures and be sure to check out the photos blog!