Yesterday we decided we wanted some adventure so we went out, way out, to the ocean! It was a 2 hour drive so we were all exhausted when we got there and it was blistering hot but it was still very fun. The water was so salty that when we came out of the water are eyes burned! So we decided to wear goggles:) We were reading about Cabarete (the town that we went to) and we learnt its one of the best windsurfing and kite boarding spot in the world. There were kiteboarders and windsurfers everywhere, this town was made by them!

Tubing!

Three, different spots where I was bleeding. Two, very bashed up shins. One, crazy family hurtling down rapids. and Zero, pictures to prove it. As you may of guessed we went tubing. Lots of bruises. Lots of screams. Lots of spills. It was scary, and yet we survived and still managed to have fun. At first I didn't think it would be that fun.(stupid of me) Then I got tossed off my tube, bruised my but, scraped my shins, and was nearly drowned. Then I thought it was fun. Why? Because its exhilarating when you're so close to you're brains being bashed out while you clutch the edge of you're tube for over an hour, flying past razor sharp rocks threatening you're very existence! It's awesome. I wore a helmet and I'm thankful for it, because there are spots, where you go under, and you come up without a tube, in the middle of the rapids. The river is very cold, and even in the tropics you're lips can turn blue. Other than that, my day was uneventful : )


Brodie

YIKES!

#1HURICANE!! Winds,rainblowingsideways,garbageflying!

#2PARISITES Stomachcramps,hardtimesleeping,

#3SCHOOL!!!!!!!! Uniforms,poloshirts,TUCKEDIN!!!

My dog

This is Chiquita pronounced (chick-ee-ta ) meaning little dog. Her name is kinda ironic for two reasons. One, she's not a little dog Two, our dominican neighbors have two dogs named Lassie and George. Her soulders come to about knee height on us. She is very jumpy and she loves couches. As you can see.

Soccer camp

We have finished soccer camp! Both Brodie and I did great, my team finished first and Brodie's team finished second. It was a grueling workout and in the end our reward was that we could sit on a tile floor for two hours listening to a completly spanish movie. We also got a shirt that said 2005 fall kickoff. True Dominican style, Out dated clothing. The main character's name in the movie was named Santiago wich happens to be the the place that i'm going today. YAY!

This is a river. A cold river. The river is one of two that run through Jarabacoa. This section of river is one located on a resort that we get to visit for free because my mom and dad work at Escuela Caribe. This last week and starting tomorrow we have been, and will continue going to soccer camp. It is a very intense training complex surounded by barbed wire and guarded by a heavily armed serano (spanis h for guard) and inforced by Texans, and other slave-drivers. In other words we're having fun : )

A normal dominican day...

This is where we drive around on a daily basis with a rusty old battered-up Isuzu Trooper with no accidents so far and just to make it worse there are no seatbelts and half the time we are riding on a full propane tank. But its still lots of fun.

NOT leaving on Sunday...

We got to the airport at 3:30, unloaded all of our stuff and went to the desk to get our tickets. Turns out that the plane that we were supposed to take to Minneapolis had suffered some damage from its last flight. So we sat there in the airport with our thirty pound backpacks and four carts of our stuff trying to get tickets. We did end up getting a flight to Chicago and THEN to Miami instead of Minneapolis to Miami. Personally I think Chicago is cooler than Minneapolis, but get this, our new flight doesn't depart at 3:00 or at 4 or 5 or 6 or even in the whole day it leaves at 7:00... MONDAY MORNING! Not Sunday morning,That means that we woke up at 3 in the morning for nothing!

PS.in case you haven't already figured it out the whole getting a flight means we haven't left yet.

Leaving on Sunday...

We're leaving on Sunday at 3 in the morning from Winnipeg to the airport. Our flight leaves at 5 and we should "enjoy" 5 hours on the plane stopping in Minneapolis and then Miami and finally off to our final destination, The Dominican...

Sorry...

Sorry that we haven't been posting lately. For your information we haven't left yet (SURPRISE!) so we can't really talk about how it is there.