Everyone around here is still asleep. I don't know how they can sleep with the sun streaming in the windows so brightly, but they do. So, I am checking my email and surfing the net. Everday I check out the news from this website called Caribbean Net News. It lets me know what's going on in the world I now live. The missing teenager from Aruba has top headlines a lot - scary. Not only is she missing, but a British teen was shot and killed in Barbados by a guy demanding money and an Austrian couple in the Bahamas was shot and killed in their hotel room the day they were scheduled to leave. So, you may wonder - are we safe here? Relatively so, but you always have to wonder when you live in a country where men can walk around with machetes.

Yesterday a tropical wave passed through and two more are expected to come through in the next day or so. A tropical wave is NOT an actual ocean wave. Its more like a storm front, so it rains a lot. (Disclaimer - I am not a meterologist, this is just how I understand it.) But tropical waves can develop into cyclones. So, I keep an eye on them too because hurricane watching is kind of fun.

Brian is gearing up for exams. He is done dissecting and just reviewing now. Still top of the class in Anatomy! He dislikes Micro, but will still pass with flying colors. I think mostly he wants to go home. Me, not so much. Kids, maybe a little bit. For the kids and me it just means the start of school, but for Brian its a real bed, a real grocery store, and people who speak real English! He also misses his dogs - surprise, surprise. Anyway, for those of you wondering when we will be home - 2 weeks. But please don't call us at 9:00 a.m. on Sunday morning, we will be sleeping in.