Stepping Out of the Boat

It's like the Fates here have declared war on us. "How dare you," they're saying to us, "plan to wash every Wednesday?!? You can't plan on doing something at a certain time and then actually do it!"

Needless to say, we did not finish the wash today, but it wasn't for lack of water. We didn't have electricity until 6:30 this evening.

This morning, when we woke up, we still didn't have water. But, a half hour after we got up, it magically turned back on. First thing at school, since I (Claire) didn't have a class, I went to talk to the lady who is in charge of helping us out with the apartments. She was outraged at the fact that we were without water since our landlord had told her that it was taken care of. I also told her about our landlord's strange behavior and lack of phone numbers. After she tried a few numbers, she eventually got a hold of him. He said he didn't have water either and that he was home and didn't know why we couldn't reach him...... something fishy is going on here. In the end, they called a plumber. Who knows if he came today or not, but we think it is being taken care of. We're going to try to be more prepared just in case it happens again.

Finally, here are some pictures of the beach we went to last Saturday. While living here, it is imperitive that we do fun things on the weekends. Who knows what is in store for this weekend! The beach we went to is called Boca Chica. You can see it on Google Earth if you look along the southern coast of the island. If you look closely, you can see a reef a little way out from the shore. We swam - or walked- out to it and John found lots of intresting sea animals.

On the left is Yvonne who has been incredibly helpful and kind to us since we've been here. She and her family (husband and two daughters) took us all to the beach.


There is a kid standing on the big pole in the ocean - we thought that was interesting.

See the videos and pictures link for more beach photos.