This weekend started off pretty slow. We went to dinner with Dave and Emily at DeChamp's. It's a bar/restaurant on top of the hill on banana trail. I am not sure if I mentioned this in earlier posts, but Mark and I do not have an exact address, we live in the section of Picard called Banana Trail. Around the campus the other trails are Lizard Trail and MooCow Trail. When you speak with the locals and need anything delivered they always ask who your landlord is and what trial you live on. I am telling you, this is like Gilligan's island (there is even a skip wrecked boat about 2 miles from my apartment!). Ok, so back to DeChamp's, this restaurant may just get the best breeze coming through in all of Picard ( LOL! I wish you all could see Picard, not big at all!) either way the breeze is fantastic. You are on top of the mountain so you get an incredible view of the sunset. After dinner we went to the coffee shop Stabox (not kidding, they really couldn't think of anything better... it's a shame.). The coffee there is ok, but they sell these homemade ice milk sandwiches there.... just incredible. Two chocolate chip cookies with cookies and cream ice milk, just yummy!
Mark and Dave with there girly drinks!
Saturday was a study day for both Mark and I . I had lots of work to finish up for my first week back to school. I don't know who thought this was a good idea! I had 13 chapters and 7 discussion questions, I mean seriously, do they not know I need to go to the beach?? I had to work that evening so I left Mark to fend for himself... He ended up playing Basketball with a bunch of students and then came to visit me at work. I work with a lovely Canadian girl named Kelsey who says Aye! all the time ( I choose not to hold that against her!) Mark and Jordan (kelsey's fiance) sat and drank strawberry daiquiris and gintingles all night. For those of you who are curious a gintingle is gin and a grapefruit soda here called Ting. Kelsey felt that gintingle was a perfect name for the drink!
Sunday was our day out and about on the island. Mark and I went with 6 other people to Titou Gorge and Screw's Spa. Titou I have been to before but was happy to get Mark there! The gorge is hard to take pictures of since you are swimming the whole time, so I will have to post those at a later time. Screw's spa is 4 different sulfur pools (hot, cold, and two warm) that a Rasta man named Screw put together. This place was AMAZING. Basically he took the naturally running water and harnessed it into these rock lined pools and the temperature of the different pools comes from the water coming down the mountain in different spots. Screw is a true Rasta Man... he lives in a tree house above the spas... I am NOT kidding. It was incredibly relaxing as well as just fun to see! After we enjoyed our time in the spas, we were given fresh fruit.
On the way back home, we always see locals on the roadside selling, grilled corn and plantains, or some sort of fruit. More often then not the van that we are in will stop for the grilled corn or plantains, the are very delicious. We also were stopped by a few local men with a truck bed full of JellyNuts. What is this you ask?? That is what we said! Apparently they are coconuts that are not ripe yet. You drink the water out of them (coconut water) then you scoop the jelly substance out of the shell. The jelly substance is the coconut before it is fully hardened. We all got one, it was interesting. The water was good, tasted just like from an actual coconut. The jelly was good but it was hard to get past the texture. It is even more interesting how they just walk up to the windows of the van and say... "here you go my wonderful woman, a jellynut just for you!" I had to look at mark to make sure it was ok, for some reason it just didn't sound like I should be taking that as a married woman and all.... Mark is "confused" as a local around here sometimes, the men with the jellynuts thought he was a fellow Dominican. This usually works in our favor.... cheaper prices :)
The JellyNuts.....
Mark is on the homestretch of his first semester. He has 5 weeks left and is pulling all A's and B's!!! Yeah Mark!
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