Our day began with a long drive through the wilderness we call San Salvador, entertained by a rendition of “Single Ladies,” performed by our very own Dr. Phillips. Needless to say, he was well caffeinated this morning. We finally arrived at Watling’s Castle which was built in the 1780s for a British Loyalist fleeing the United States. San Salvador was known as Watling’s Island until the Bahamas gained its independence in 1973. Now the bare walls make for awesome group picture opportunities. Some of us took this time to perfect our rock climbing skills.
Group picture at Watling's Castle
Rock climbing expertise
Bloggers in front of the Red Mangroves
Once again we loaded up on the truck and headed out to explore the rocky intertidal zone of Blackwood Bay. Here we flipped over large rocks and found many new, exciting organisms, including a medusa worm, peanut worms, coral crab, sea hare (a sea slug released a cloud of ink after being harassed by Sarah), and snapping shrimp.
JW posing a Coral Crab
Class tonight consisted of student presentations that taught us more about the fish and echinoderms of San Salvador.
6 days and counting until you see our lovely tanned selves!
Bahama <3
Stephanie, Hannah, and Amanda
PS. Papa Allbee- Please post World Cup Scores in the blog!
-Written by Amanda Allbee ’11, Hannah Clark ’12, and Stephanie Zmina ’12
USA played England and tied 1-1. They continue playing.
Dad had a great birthday. Thanks for the wishes and your wonderful email. We went to Julie Eckers graduation party, then to fix the carpet at one of the condos, then to dinner and the movie called Shrek forever. It was cute.
Jeff was in Bobbys and Amandas wedding today. It was in Cleveland. He and Jesse stayed with Mindy last night and hotel of the wedding reception.
I love reading your blogs.
Enjoy your final week!!!!!
See you soon.
Love and miss you,
Mom and Dad
Hey Hannah
Good to hear from you and see some great pictures. What did you do with the octopus? You can tell us when you see us which will be soon! Glad to see a smile. You are getting tan. Maybe that will burn off the bug bites lol. Hope your research is going well. Good luck with your tests and presentations. Mom made a right turn on red when it was posted as no turn. The sheriff was behind her but no ticket lol. Hunter went out on a date tonight. It is 3:30 in the morning and I am making MB videos for grandpa. See you soon.
Love Dad
Sis
From my App!
S Africa Mexico 1:1
Uruguay France 0:0
S Korea 2:0 Greece
The UK scored in the 4th minute. US tied it with a 25 yard shot, mishandled by the England Keeper.
Went to Grace last night, so watching a match today (Sunday) @ 8.
Did you know Tim Horton’s has an App??
great pictures again. Love the group shots. Its rained all weekend here so your pictures of the ocean and beautiful blue skies make us all envious. Matthew brought Patrick to the lake and of course they are still sleeping. I am writing on our new device for internet at the lake. Now we have to figure out how to get it to work for the other computers. Hope last few days of data collection go well. We get to see all the pictures in a few days.
Love u, Mom, Dad, Matthew, and Alyssa in Spain on Skype
Hey Amanda –
I love reading your blogs each morning and seeing the pictures that are sent along with the blog.
Some more up-to-date scores for you:
Kor 2 Gre 0
Arg 1 Nga 0
Alg 0 Svn 1
Srb 0 Gha 1
Went to church this morning (St. Chris), had 109 quests (bears), yes, all the bears that were made at Build-A-Bear last Saturday for Day of Service.They were all seated around the whole church, in pews, on window sills even up front in chairs on the other side of the altar rail. They were being blessed at 10 a.m. Really cool seeing them just scattered around the church in the different outfits. They are being donated to Chauncey’s Place for the little kids.
Very hot and nights get stromy here. See you in a week.
Love, Mom
Medusa worms?!!? AHHG STEPH!! WATCH OUT FOR MEDUSA, SHE’S SHINY AND CRAZY! tee hee. i don’t know if i believe that you’re getting tan…can that happen? we hope you’re having fun! i’m sure the weather is better there than Ohio. pretty lame lately with these clouds :/ see you soon!
Ben,
Sounds like we better start saving for a class next summer.
Mom is starting to enjoy her summer. Gretchen was home for a
day with Mom. I’m heading to the driving range, then mowing our hayfield in the backyard.
See you Friday night,
Mom&Dad
Hi Tasha,
We all say hello and love the blog and pictures. I am home from Virginia. Trip was good. Seymour HS girls made it to sectionals for soccer – unfortunately they lost the game. Calya ran the Bellin Run in 52 minutes – Uncle Stuart ran it in 51. She is very excited about this. We have soccer games for the girls on T/R this week and Jared plays M/T; A busy week. It is cool and rainy and more rain is suppose to come. Please bring the warm temps home with you. Enjoy your last week and see you on Saturday at the airport. Call when you get back to the states. I will email your answers to your questions late on Sunday evening!
Love,
Mom – Dad – Jared – Kira – Cayla – Jenna
Hey kathi today is sunday dont you get any email time LOL I would love to hear back from you I love you and miss you dearly.
Hugs and Kisses
Hi Josh, the pictures and blog are outstanding. Good to see you are having a wonderful time. Learning and having fun can go hand in hand is obvious on this trip. Keep up the good work and have fun. Looking forward to seeing you this weekend. Love Dad
Hi Emily! Loved the blog and pictures. So glad you all are keeping it up. It sounds like Ohio is getting all the storms. We were supposed to have rainy weather all weekend and it ended up pretty nice but steamy hot on Sat. and a bit cloudy today. Although, the sunset on the lake was fabulous – we were out for a cruise with the A-team and Eric S. Your Dad drove to Kendall’s grad party and that was nice. He came home same day. Miranda actually studied for finals for three hours with Paige – no kidding! and it was a Sat. night!!!! Church this morning was cool, had a child dedication, senior bridging ceremony and farewell to the interim Minister – you would of loved the 1.5 hour service!!! Well, that was about it – still missing you! Love,
Mom
P.S. We’re up in West Bloomfield, Michigan, about 4 hours north of Witt
Hi Asquared!!
I miss you so much but know that you are having fun!! I love looking at these pics and blogs. They are so cool. The pictures are so beautiful and looks like such a cool experience. I am kind of jealous about what you get to see and do. By the way, I am sorry that I have not written sooner but I have been busy with classes and working. Babysitting the twins was a blast. I know that they miss you though. They are so adorable, I wish I could take them home with me. We will definitely have to have a big reunion when you get home. I am actually in Georgia right now for a week with my family. We will get home next Monday, then we can get together hopefully. We are having a lot of fun though, relaxing in a condo, been to the beach each day, and explored the island that we are on. It was 102 here yesterday! crazy! but not compared to any temp that you deal with, I’m sure. Well this is getting long.
Miss you friend! Be safe and enjoy the rest of your time.
Love, M