Blog Shmog go chew on a log.,ethan

Those were the seven harsh words I saw in a e-mail today.

You see,uncle Frank has not posted in a loooooooooooooonnnnnnnng time so I keep on telling him to blog (Grandpa, if your reading this tell him to chew on a log!).
Oh yeah,if you run into him tell him to show you the lobster and you'll see something cool.
So there...
Ethan :)

Hey(new cuz)

Hey Terry and Jill had a baby,so we got a new cuz. Her name is Luna.Luna means moon. Ya so go to Mom and Dad's blog if you are interested:)

Rain

It's been raining. Every day at 2:30 it starts to rain. Then the power goes on and off. Ya. Lots of rain. Also the poll thats set up is going to close in 21 hours and so far there have only been 8 votes. Oh. Ya, Mom and Dad left to Puerto Plata for two days two days ago because...I dont know, so Terry and Jill lived with us for two days. Ya thats what is going on :)

Hey school

This is our second week of school now and I am sitting in school right now so I got to make it quick before someone finds me. Just saying that we are in school.

Scratch

Scratch the "miss the XBOX thing" we don't have a TV. :'(

The-miss-it-game

Today at lunch we were playing The-miss-it-game. Ethan started us off with a random "I miss slushies" Well that was a very random thing for him to do, but it is a thing to base a blog off. Oh and another random thing, can everyone who reads the blog comment? Oh and one more thing, we are going to add some polls. Please vote.
Back to the things me miss.
-family
-friends
-slushies
-people
-ENGLISH
-permanent electricity
-family
-friends
-school (go figure)
-friends...
-snow(NOT)
-tap water
-X-box
-librarys
-The stuff we do with friends
-non-salty -lakes


Wait. The list is not actually what we miss. What we miss is actually is the top two. The rest is just not that important. That's the truth.

1 year gone.

With a fast year behind us and only one year left, it's kinda sad. We love it here, it's so....fun. Awesome language, beautiful country, nice people, cool culture. So the question is where are we going to be one year from now. Oh wow, just thought up something, how about we won't tell you what we plan on doing, but...lol that's mean but why not? There will be a poll where you guys think we will be in a year and after a certain amount of time the polls will reveal the answer of where we will live in one year. Anyway we are pretty sure this next year will be fast/fun except for one thing.. Manabao... (read that post for more details)
Another good thing about this year is that this school year we have a bonus. We start off the year with a one whole satisfaction guarantied friend.(lucky us) He is American and speaks English (go figures) so we can speak the same language and not have to explain the more complicated words. He plays baseball so Brodie will have him after school not me. I will still do soccer the whole year which I still love its just hard. Anyway since the school year now ended for Escuala Caribe some of our friends (students and staff) are leaving... :( But then I guess we will make new ones and have them over! My fondness of deep posts is not here and probably never will so this next part will be very difficult. (Here we go!*Mario voice*) This last year in the DR has changed our family dramatically and we will never be the same. We are now graced with incredible knowledge that no many people are lucky enough to have. We been changed in the way we think, live and breath. We are affected physically, mentally,...aly,etc. That was the deep part. Happy New Year!(for us) :)

Sorry

We might post later but we havn't yet so if you want to know whats up go www.bobandcarrie.blogspot.com ya so there! (sorry)

Week 1 of Vacation

Our first week of family vacation and we are already off, our mission? To explore the south-side of the island. So we packed up and got ready to go, Ethan and Dad went and got a few things from the store and we finished the stuff at the house. Everything was all done and we were getting in the vehicle when Ethan and Dad arrived and Ethan jumped off of the wrong side of the scooter and burned his leg bad. We call burns like that a "Dominican Tattoo". We didn't know it was that bad so we just said "its FINE let's go" but as we continued to drive out of town the blister grew worse and worse until it was bigger than a golf ball and PUFFY, it was gross.

Anyway, when we got to Bani (pronounced Bah NEE) (which was a checkpoint and a 4 hour drive from our house) we stopped and took a break at Burger King, (which is only in the BIG cities here) had a Whopper Adventuero (which completely filled us) and headed of to Las Salenas (dumb idea) for there is a serious lack of accommodations. After not being able to find anything after a few hours we headed back to Bani in search of a place to rest our heads. What we found was HOTEL GLAMOURS and it was awesome. No it wasn't, vehicles parked outside, motorcycles parked in the lobby which was in between rooms. After bringing all the stuff in, sleeping, and bringing all the stuff out we decided to continue along the south coast to Barrahona. As we continued on our long drive the scenery turned from lush to deserty until it was completely dry and there was cacti everywhere and no more green shrubs. When we arrived we found a nice hotel, checked in and went to find a few fun beaches! We found lots, oh and by the way the south coast is basically all polished pebble beaches which sound and look really cool as the waves come in. We stayed in Barrahona for 4 days. On Thursday we went to lago enriquillo the largest lake on the island. The we saw one crocodilian and like a trillionish iguanas. On Friday we went home. Friday was an odd day. We wanted to stay in Santo Domingo for the night so when we got there we looked for hotels. We couldn't really find any cheap ones so we decided to go to Quisqullana(I don't think that's spelt right.) This place looks like it used to be a hospital and no one is ever there. (I wonder why.) But when we got there it was full so we went home. End of adventures right? No. When we stopped at a gas station we called our house sitters to tell them that we were coming back early but when we called them they informed us that we had been robbed the previous night but they didn't think much was stolen. When we got home we checked for stolen stuff etc. List of stolen stuff; house sitters camera, Dads wedding ring, and two cellphones. The robbers could have taken more but it looks like they wanted money (dumb robbers, why rob poor people?) it also sounds like our neighbor kinda scared them off. Our dog Chiquitta is a nice dog. She doesn't bite people, but she likes to bark. Our neighbor Bob came out and told the dog to shutup and he also saw a car parked in front of our house but he didn't think very much about the car. Then he went to bed. We think that Bob yelling scared them off. That was week one of vacation.

Found in Canada?

Just a question? Do you get your Coke looking like that in Canada? In the fine print it clearly shows us that this new logo is symbolizing deliciousness and happiness. That's good, right? This is indeed Chinese.