Ant's view

Sorry about all these beach shots, but I dont get to use the camera much Kristin usually has it taking pictures of her kids and school and so on which is cool and all but that leaves me with little from the orphanage to take pictures of. All that said I dont know if you'd like to see pictures of me spending all day trying to take a stripped screw out of a shower handle, but if you'd like to see these types of things let me know and I will try to make it happen.

Today I spent about 3 hours tearing out a tile in one of the houses because it wasn't level with the rest of the tiles under the front door so the door wouldnt open and shut, not really sure how long it was like this but I'm guessing it was a while. Everything here takes 3-4X's longer than what you'd think it'd take. I want to start counting my steps because I am sure I walk at leats 5-7 miles a day back and forth to our tool shed here just trying to find the right tools and parts I will need to finish any job. I will try to get a picture of the drain tube we tore out today for you you'd never think you could put some much crap in a 3 inch drain tube!

I've been drinking alot of COKE

Okay so one of the main industries here is sugarcane, and there is two things they know how to do right here in the Dominican Republic, make coke with real suger, and rum. Coke cost about 15 pesos. You return the bottle and you get 5 peso's back so its about 40cents or so a bottle word..........................................

Beachhh

Its been a little bit since I've added anything on my blog, and I appologize. This is a pic at the beach we were at this weekend, same place we usually go, however we found a new place to chill.... a much more low key spot. It's within walking distance of the place we usually go but we decided to check out the other direction and we stumbled about this place. Did I mention how chill this place is, a couple kids renting out chairs for the day in an old abandoned resort that got shut down from the huricane a couple years back I guess. Squatting rights or somthing you'd be suprised at how many resorts around that have been shut down and never re-opened which is all the better for people like us I guess.

Worms

So I got worms, well at least I think so I had to send in a stool sample so I really wanted to take a picture of that for you guys but I thought I would post some more pleasant photos instead

Kristin did a project on the five senses

Cathedral Downtown

Oh how I wish I had our sailbaot!

Like grandma always said there is always a silver lining, after cleaning sink drains you can almost always go out and enjoy the sunset. A shot of our water tower from afar at a spiders eye view.

mmmmm.......lunch time....

So I hope you don't scope this during your lunch break because you might not want to eat. There's nothing like doing a drain check before lunch, the Tia's complain that their drains don't drain water and you wander why? Just imagine the smell of diarrhea in a toilet for like a week top it off with the smell of some throw up and yeah.......