Life is Good - LIfe as we know it

Life is good! We are enjoying our adventure here in St. Eustatius, the sun and all the goes along with it.

- We miss family, but look forward to their visits (Nana and Papa Yamamoto will be here is 36 days,  and Nana and Papa Harker in 165 days) Can't wait to show them the island. We love our face time chats we share with our loved ones back home. I am very thankful for the technology we have today.

- Josh is crazy busy with school. We see him very little these days, but he always finds time for family time :) When we see him we make the most of it. The kids love their dad and so do I. Josh is really enjoying school and all he's learning.

- We are enjoying the simple life, almost a step back in time. Kids are love having mom to themselves and mom is enjoying being a mom with no job. This is the mat-leave I never had.

- There's no shopping malls, no shopping at all,other then a couple small grocery stores and a gift shop. Surprisingly enough, it hash't been to bad. Other then the taunting emails I get from Old Navy, Children's Place, etc. Good thing Nana's coming to visit to bring us some goods.

-Banking here, we use a ATM machine. It's been good other then last week, no international bank cards could take out money. So we all just have to wait patiently until they decide to let us use it again.

-Getting things shipped here is VERY expensive. The school has a shipment program that comes weekly. We get things sent to florida then it comes over. But we have to pay $50 plus $4 per cubic foot?. So that stinks.

- Drinking water- tap water isn't safe to drink. So you either have to have bottled water or a filer like we do. We have a Zuvo counter filter. 

Here's some more picture we captured on one of our visited to see and feed the pigs.

The picture on the bottom right, this pig will stand up on the pallets if she isn't getting food.

Notice me over here! Lacey is also very fascinated with the pigs. I'd love to know what goes through her head as she watches these stinky, dirty animals.

Lincoln loves making creations with glue and other fun art supplies that we bought. 

You can get the basics craft supplies here, but not much. I really miss my Dollarama's here. The things they have here are more expensive compared to a dollar store back home but cheaper quality.

Picture taken at Zeelandia Beach.

All ready for church!

Here's some Father's Day Goodies all the dad's got from our church group.

There's lots of different type of creatures here that I'm not a fan of. I'm okay if they stay outside and far away from me. There's tarantulas, banana spiders, beetles, weevils ( people find these in their pasta they buy, GROSS!), cockroaches, rats and many more!

 - Photo above it a picture of a silver argiope-  I found this spider and their web near my clothes line. I asked around to find out what kind of spider it was and did a little research about this spider. They average 20-30mm in size (so not huge).  The bite can be a bit stinky and itchy for the 1st hour then the pain usually passes away. However, it may have several health repercussions on children and physically week people. Don't worry Josh took care of this spider and I haven't seen any more since.