Island Tour!!

Today seemed like it was one of the hottest days we have had yet-but maybe that was because we spent it on the bus doing our island tour and visiting some amazing places around the island instead of sitting in the Caribbean Sea all day!!

We began our morning with a quick stop at the Marriott Casino to cash travelers checks for our Visa's tomorrow!  The inside of the Marriott was amazing, truly a resort...I would highly recommend staying there to any family and friends!!  The casino was really cool too!!!

From there we all loaded onto the bus and began our island tour.  Mr. Rogers, our bus driver, was extremely knowledgeable about the island and was able to give us a lot of great information and took us to some really cool places.  Our first stop was at Brimstone Hill Fortress which was an old war spot (I think).  It was built into the side of a mountain and had old cannons and jail cells and beautiful brick buildings.  It was an amazing spot with an amazing view of the island and the ocean!!

Top of Brimstone Hill

Brimstone Hill

Views from the top.  You can see two other island in the distance!

Us on the top of brimstone hill!

Island Views!

Us again! Check out the amazing views!

This is the very tip of St Kitts where the Caribbean Sea meets the Atlantic Ocean.    It is called the Golden Lemon (I think!)

There were horses just roaming around! 

This is the evidence of Black Rocks from a volcano at some point in the past.

Banana Tree - I never knew they grew upside down! 

Rainforest!

Leaving from there, we continued our trip around the island.  There was a lot of very poor towns with houses that did not look like people should even be living in them and there were some places that were amazing!  Mr. Rogers also took us to a spot below the crater that overlooked the Atlantic Ocean and there were huge black rocks in the water (therefore proving that there was at one time a Volcano).  It was beautiful!  Mr. Rogers also took us up to the Ottley's Plantation Inn.  There was a beautiful restaurant and Inn there and a trail that took you through a small rain forest.  It was so cool to see a rain forest...it looked just like it does in movies!!!

The rest of our tour around the island was great, there are many awesome views and so much to see!  Our last stop was Scoops - a homemade ice cream shop - and the ice cream was great!!  If you look at the map attached, that is where we are!  Today we drove around the outside of St Kitts!

Brayton and I came back to campus and took a walk around!  We were able to get inside the Prep School where I will be teaching and see my classroom.  It was still full of stuff so hard to tell what I had to work with, but it was really small!  I am getting really excited and nervous, but looking forward to starting!!

Rainforest

Rainforest

Tonight we had a quick meeting with our group to do Visa paperwork and then Brayton and I went and walked the Ross dogs with couple other girls.  They dogs were adorable and so grateful for attention.  We took two little puppies that are up for adoption....if only we lived off campus!  The one Brayton had kept jumping up his leg trying to get him to carry them!

Life is great...tomorrow we start Orientation officially so we will be busy with less fun and exciting stuff!  Stay tuned!!

Turtles that live at the Prep School!

This is the bottom of the cliff outside out dorms!