One of the other spouses here named Heather, has a video of me cliff jumping on her blog. On November 12 a group of us crazies went with Victor, a wonderful tour guide here, to a place where he used to cliff jump as a boy. There was a 50 foot cliff and a 20 foot cliff. I did the 50 foot one! So here's how crazy I've become here in Dominica!

I still can't believe I did that! Thanks Heather for having that video! There is also another video I'm waiting on that shows how much talking it took to get me off the cliff! As soon as I get it I'll post it. OK, seriously I have to go get some stuff done! :)

Purple Turtle Beach

A couple weeks ago I mentioned that Aaron and Lenny had a day off and so we all went to the beach. I came across these videos that I forgot we had taken and I thought you might enjoy seeing them!

LOOKS FUN HUH! It would have been more fun if the water was a bit deeper!

Lily is doing great! We've had two days accident free so that is wonderful! This weekend in Roseau I got her a harness because she isn't used to walking outside with a leash and so she will just sit or pull back, its made it a little easier to kinda tug her and coax her in to walking. I'm also not so scared her collar is going to slip off and she'll get loose. She barked for the first time yesterday, but got told no and her nose flicked, so hopefully she learned from that. Anyway I better stop procrastinating I have a lot of cleaning to do so we can come home!!! I think we're down to like 29 or 30 days till we get home! I'm excited to see everyone, and to show off my tan of course! I know you're jealous Tonya :) I love you all and I'll write again soon!

My New Baby Girl!

Aaron and I made the decision to adopt a 5month old puppy!

Meet Lily Robertson!!

She was found by an organization at Ross called PAWS. They help give animals in need food and find them good homes. About a week ago Andrea sent me an email with two puppies that needed homes. When I saw Lily's picture I was in love. I showed Aaron and he liked her too, so we talked about it and decided that we would meet her and see if she was a good fit for us and make sure Aaron wouldn't be allergic to her. The family who was feeding her was severely allergic so unfortunately they couldn't keep her in the house. So she just came around every few days for food. Which absolutely broke my heart not knowing when she would show up again. On Wednesday I went searching for her.

<3

I looked in the area she was said to be for an hour then took a break, then went back and looked again for an hour and a half. Heartbroken and empty handed I returned home. That night Andrea was throwing a surprise birthday party for a friend of ours. Andrea, Lenny, Aaron, and I all got in our taxi and when we were about half way to Heavens Best, the restaurant I got a phone call from the president of PAWS saying that Lily had just shown up and they would hold her for us till we could come get her! I was so happy and so relieved knowing that she was safe. Aaron and I enjoyed a 2lb lobster for dinner! I have to say it was probably the best meal I've ever had in my life!

YUMMMMMMMMMMM!

Aaron and I with our yummy Lobster!

The birthday girl was very surprised and the night was a real success thanks to Andrea. The food was wonderful and everyone had a great time. After the party Aaron and I went to pick up Lily so she could stay the night and see what she was like.

Sleeping on her blanket!

We were hooked as soon as we met her. She has settled in very quickly, and is very comfortable around us and has learned so much this week. She can sit, stay, come, and knows what "lets go home" means. She also doesn't bark, has learned not to jump up on people, and has become comfortable wearing a leash.

She's such a sweetheart!

I am so proud of her and so happy that she is such a good puppy. We have only had 5 accidents in the house in the last 4 days which I think is really great for a new puppy just learning to go outside. She is amazing! I can't wait for you all to get to meet her!

She loves her sock toy!

I promise to post more about what I've been up to soon! I've jumped off a 50 foot cliff, hiked through the jungle to a waterfall following a man with a machete cutting us a path, slid down a natural water slide, and almost completed my open dive certification. Just to name a few! So more details and Pictures of course to follow! Hope all is well at home! I miss you all!

Beautiful Dominican Sunset...

Yesterday I went to the beach while Aaron went to his Pharmacology review. I got some really great sunset pictures

This part of the beach was primarily rock, but it was beautiful none the less

I'm not sure what my obsession with sand footprints are, but I have acquired a lot of pictures of them!

I also seem to like feet pictures

My creative work ;)

Cool pelican picture

I was so busy looking around at what to shoot next that I almost missed this little guy right next to me!

This is what I look like-incase any of you are forgetting! ;)

A bigger crab

So Beautiful

Sailing out to sea

I love that you can tell the water is rushing over the rocks in this one.

My poor broken sunglasses :( Somehow they cracked on the bottom part that holds the lens in, luckily I have another pair here!

Gram this picture is for you, I know you would want the big round rock for your garden

This little guy was on my backpack but ran off before I could get a picture of him on it. That was my Saturday, Enjoy the pictures! More to come:) Love and miss you all!

The crazy after mini2 week....

I realize I am terrible at updating this and I am so sorry! Last week was crazy cause Tuesday was Dominican Independence day.

So Aaron didn't have school, and didn't have much to study because he had just taken his second mini (thats what they call the

exams). So Andrea, Lenny, Aaron, and I went to a beach in Portsmouth called Purple Turtle beach. I was really nice to actually

get to go do something with Aaron! On our way back we explored Portsmouth, which was really fun cause we'd never seen it.

Then on Wednesday I went to Red Rock with the spouse group. It was a beautiful place, but it rained on us and it was on the

Atlantic side of the island so the water was really really rough! So I didn't really get in the water cause I wanted to live! We ate

there and the food was delicious, I had a caribbean pizza and the sauce wasn't tomato based it was avocado based and oh so

good! On a side note, I'd like you all to know that I can make some mean guacamole! Avocados are in season now and they taste

amazing!

Thrusday The guys had a football game, which they won!!! Then Saturday Aaron and I went to Roseau to get some groceries.

When we got back the school was having an Arts and Crafts Fair. They had local artists and venders come and sell their stuff.

It was really cool cause there was a lot of neat stuff that locals had crafted with coconuts and leather and pretty much anything

that was available to them.

Well Thats all I've got for now I hope you enjoy the pictures and I will try realllllllly hard to write again soon! Good night!

Our Dominican Home

This is our apartment here in Dominica, I know all of you are curious! Sorry it has taken me so long to post these!

This is our place! Andrea and Lenny live in the left first floor door and we live on the right. Our landlord, Gloria, and her family live above us.

This is our main living space.

This is my tiny kitchen!

This is our bedroom (obviously)

Our Giant desk, its more the size of a kitchen table then a desk!

The bathroom

Our closet....yup its in the bathroom!

Its no five star hotel, but its a nice place to come home to at the end of the day. Aaron seems to like it more now that its clean! Some night I'll have to post the before pictures! I'm a miracle worker! Enjoy a little look into our home, I'm off to bed, Good night everyone.

Cows, cows, and more cows

Here in Dominica they a.) don't believe in pastures, or b.) are too lazy to make fences. Either way there are cows everywhere, and its the funniest thing to me. You'll be walking on campus and turn a corner and bam there's a cow, then you'll turn another corner and bam, there is an entire heard of them. The other day Aaron and I were gonna go sit on the beach and on our way there on the side of the path there were about 5 or 6 cows just hanging out eating the grass. Its soooooo weird to see them just out and about where ever they please.

Aaron Tried to pose with one but scared it and it ran away, I was laughing my butt off cause when it stared to move Aaron jumped about 5 feet.

Then when we were walking home from the beach there was a cow in the middle of the side walk! We had to wait for some cars to pass and then make a wide circle around it so it didn't kick us. It just cracks me up that this is normal here, my first instinct is: we need to find out who's it is so they can get it back to their pasture... clearly I grew up on a farm!

we made it look at us, so I could get a picture, and the people behind us thought we were crazy I'm pretty sure!