We have been in Grenada for almost 2 months. It is the longest time we have stayed anywhere on our trip since we left Chicago last October. It is beginning to feel like home. We visit the GSPCA every Wednesday to bathe and play with puppies. We have been here long enough to see many new puppies and dogs come in as well as many find new homes and happily leave the shelter. We bump into our new friends on the streets, at the beach, and at the grocery store. We know our way around the island by bus, we’ve experienced Carnival, we know where to find the best food and local juice, we have “our” guy at the fish market, and we love turning on the radio stations to hear the lively Soca music. We are so lucky to get to know Grenada so well and are glad we’ve picked this beautiful, friendly country to spend this hurricane season.
Throughout our journey down through the Caribbean to Grenada, we’ve constantly seen dive boats and divers exploring the ocean floor. Saba, a Dutch island we visited, had scuba divers everywhere. It is a really hard place to visit and you have to put a lot of effort into getting there, whether by sea or by plane…and everyone there was diving (except us). We felt like we were missing out as the dive boats headed out into the lumpy sea. So, this last week, the whole crew of Love & Luck has taken the plunge and we are learning SCUBA. The kids take lessons in the morning and Mark and I take lessons in the afternoon. We have finished our confined water portion—which was actually done at the beach near our boat. On Monday, we make our first open water dive all together. We are all looking forward to a new experience! I expect we will all feel a bit like the new swimmers we taught earlier in July that put on goggles and got to see the pretty fish underwater for the first time…
I’m sure someone will be posting a blog to tell you all about it soon!