You may wonder what we do to keep busy on a island that's only 8 square miles, with no shopping malls, or fast food chains. It's said that this island is 20-30 years behind the US, sometimes it feels like more then that. Trust me we stay very busy. To me, while living on Statia you have to learn to enjoy the simple things in life. Here's a few thing we do to keep busy.
We like to visit "the horse" on the island. Yes, there is only one horse on this island. The kids have named it brownie because it's brown. Lincoln loves feeding it grass. When Lincoln stops feeding it , it will stomp it's hoof for some more food.
Our friends have also shown us where the pigs are on the island.
Lincoln and Lacey love the pigs. We have started bringing our food scraps
to them when we go visit them and they get quite noisy when they
realized we have brought food for them. They grunt and squeal till they
get some food, then they get louder till we give them more.
It's a great experience for the kids!
The pigs fence are made out of shipping palettes, kinda sketchy looking.
We aren't sure how much these pigs get fed and how often.
They always act like they are starving when we go to visit them.
Maybe thats just how pigs are. I'm not too sure, I didn't grow up on a farm.
Another thing we do is go the the St. Eustatius Roosevelt Airport
to watch the air planes come and take off.
Here's a picture of the run way. It's almost the whole width of the island.
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