The last week and a half...

Hello everyone! Well, the good news is that Ryan and I have MADE IT to Grenada and have found a great apartment. It was sure a pain getting here tho. We have officially decided to never move to Grenada for the First Time ever again.

Tuesday night to Wednesday morning, I had a nasty reaction to my Lortab medicine that I got from the periodontist--vomit, throwing up, puking, dry heaving; I did it all! So poor Ryan was on his own finishing up loose ends.

We made it to New York Wednesday night with out any problems, and I was feeling much better. However, on the flight to the island of Trinidad, the Caribbean Airlines staff wouldn't allow Chewey on the plane. I had neglected to send/file/finish the proper paperwork; it was all my fault. (Mistakes were made, and were all by me.) So Ryan stayed behind in NYC to figure out "Operation Transport Chewey" while I went ahead to Trinidad to meet our 5 suitcases that were already checked. The best solution possible was for Ryan to leave Chewey at a pet boarding place and fly down to Trinidad a couple of days later. So I lived in a motel for a few days living off of dry cereal, Christmas chocolates and caramels, cranberry juice, and KFC. (There was one across the street of the motel.)

Finally, we arrived in Grenada on Sunday. Customs were a (your choice of explicative here) and we were so exhausted by the time we got to the beautiful hotel. We slept from 8-2pm Grenada time, which meant 5-11 am our body's time.

After we found our apartment, we began to hate everything less, ha ha. On the last night in our hotel, we took a walk on the beach at 1 am. It was gorgeous and quiet and private. The ocean is very warm. We laughed, got stung by a little who-knows-what on our feet, and talked about how different the stars were here than in Sugarhouse.

This is such a great place for the senses. The sun is very hot. It rains off and on, and it is soft and short. The soft ocean waves are so relaxing. There is a cricket here that sounds like a fire alarm out of battery, so that is less relaxing. :-)  The orange juice comes in cans, the cheese is rich, and air smells spicy and pleasant. Sigh, it's been quite an adventure!!