Fishing

Hey everyone. We went fishing a few weeks ago and had a blast. The first picture is one of the fish I caught, you cannot see it really well because it was splashing the camera. We were in the bay. I caught 3 fish and Shawn caught 2! Everything else is going well here. The weather is starting to heat up and we are both working a lot. We miss everyone and hope you are all doing well. Love you all.

I went to an animal show and these are all animals found in Guantanamo Bay. The Cuban Boa is ten feet long, and it is not the biggest one here. There are a lot of different frogs and lizards here as well. The show was really interesting, they went out and found all the animals in the wild a few days before the show!

So this is where I work. I know the sign on the door is not the best, but we live in GITMO. Our door actually broke the other day. The court yard is really nice. I eat lunch out there most days. Right outside the door is the bay!

The other day we had a big rain storm and our back yard flooded. We have the low point and as you can see everything comes into our yard. The lizard was just looking out the rain gutter. He was there the whole time it rain. He must have been just as mad to watch our yard flood.

Animals

The crab lives in our front yard underneath a rock near our flower tree and the frog was in the backyard. We have a ton of frogs, there is actually a big one that is the crabs next door neighbor. Never though I would see a crab in our front yard.

These are some views around us. It is very green and pretty here. The weather is nice right now in the winter, but the summer will be very hot. We go snorkeling near the water photos. Last weekend we saw a huge parrot fish, a few sea turtles and a moray eel. It was fun to see the eel but apparently they are dangerous so we will not be getting so close next time. I think we are ever going to go snorkeling on Christmas. The water is cooler now, but we are still able to play in it.

Shawn started working in section. He works nights and it will take us a while to get used to it. I work 8 hour days and he works 12 hours nights and our shifts over lap, so we are really only home together for a few hours on days that we both work. It is also difficult with only one car. On the plus side no where on this island is to far away, we can get most places within 5 mins. we also don't have any traffic lights which cuts down on the stops.

We both really like it here. This is a very nice community and there are a lot of activities. We are going to learn to scuba dive soon and then we can go further out and deeper in the ocean. It is still hard being so far away from everyone and we miss you all.

The House

Here are some pictures of our house. We really like it. Its nice to have a place of our own.

Pictures

This is Shawn and I snorkeling at Windmill Beach. It was clear and we got to see a lot of tropical fish along the reef, we even saw two sea turtles. The bird is in our back yard. The iguana is small to medium, they are everywhere. We don't touch them but they are fun to see. We are doing well. We both really like our jobs and we are enjoying getting to know this place. The weather is very nice right now about 85 degrees everyday, which is a lot better than 100 degrees and humid. We hope everyone is doing well, we will talk to you all soon.

Our House

Hey there everyone, here are some photos of our house and Shawn cleaning out our shed.

CUBA!!

Hey there everyone, we are in Cuba. Sorry that it took so long to get a post up but we have been trying to get our house set up and everything else. Anyway our stuff is finally here so we don't have to use loner stuff anymore. It is very hot here and humid. Most of the time it is in the 80's. We are really enjoying it here. Shawn is going doing training right now and I got a job at Columbia College as an academic advisor/administrative assistant. We are both going to start school in January, so we are looking forward to that. Lets see, we are still waiting for our car to get here and we are hoping it will be tomorrow. It is actually difficult to get around here with out a car. We live just over two miles from the downtown area, which is also where we work and it takes about half hour to walk down there. Which would not be so bad except the humidity is so high that when you get down there it looks like you just got back from a 10 mile run. We do have a taxi service that has about 4 cars, but we usually have to wait a long time for them and some times you can't even get a hold of them, so we are really hoping that our car is here soon. Other than that we are doing really really well and enjoying the nice weather. I'll post pictures soon.