This is what happens when you don't keep an eye out for Ionda on your birthday!! First was the cold water, followed by the flour and him laughing and celebrating that he got me!

Jamaica tradition is to make the person who is having a birthday into a cake!

Latest jobs we have been working on in the factory. Cedar Entertainment Center.

Queen Bed (Tambrind wood)

Green House waiting for the races to start!

Miss Lawrence! When you are Principal you need to support all the 'houses'. Red, Yellow and Green

Roger! Can be a little hard to manage at times, but I have come to love him!

On Friday April 3rd(I know I am behind on this:), I was at the Kingston school for Sports day. There are 3 'houses' that compete on the last day of the term before Easter break. Yellow House was confident they would win again... and they did!

My favorite banner was green house

Rubbish pile is gone!!

The rood is complete! The windows are in the front wall

Thursday night I was walking over to the apt. building with one of the guys from the team about 10:30 having a discussion about creation and absolute truth of Scripture... We had just gotten to the apartment when Brooke ran out calling me to come quickly, something is wrong with Simone. I ran over to Brooke's apt. to find Simone on the floor. Brooke explained that they were talking and Simone just collapsed. Simone was laying on the floor and opened her eyes when I got there. She tried to sit up and I held her head as she told me she felt dizzy, was seeing black spots, her head was hurting and then her eyes kind of rolled back and she collapsed to the floor again. I left Brooke with her and ran to the truck and drove over to Chad's and got the van. Racing back to the apt I picked her up and carried her to the van. Sheldon, Simone's husband, Brooke and I took off for the hospital. I learned that it is possible to get from JDV to the ER in less than 10 minutes! We pulled up to the ER and called out for help... Sheldon ended up just carrying her in and putting her in a wheel chair since that was the quickest way. Of course Hospital rules are that only one person can enter with the patient(never mind she is deaf and can't communicate) so we were required to go in the other entrance and fight our way into the ER. I came very close to causing a scene with the security guard and finally convinced him that he wasn't going to be able to stop me from getting in to interpret for her by himself.
Got there as the nurse was checking vitals and stuff and explained what happened. We then were told to wait in the waiting room for the Doctor. The Dr. came around about an hour later and checked her again and ordered a urine test. We then proceeded to wait for 3 1/2 more hours for the results of that! Yeah, you really have to love "Free National Heath Care"!!! It is SO efficient and wonderful. No sarcasm there!! If you know anyone dumb enough to think that would be good for the US to have National Health Care, please send them down here and I will take them on a field trip! When Simone thought she was going to throw up we couldn't even get a bag or bowl for her.
Thankfully that the 5 hour hospital visit ended up alright. Simone is doing fine! I am still trying to catch up on sleep:)
Now I am heading to Kingston for the day. Will post pictures of the progress there in the near future!

Last Saturday after Jumping off the cliffs in Negril, Jeremy and I went to Mobay to check one last thing off the list. Snorkeling. We went inot Dr. Cave and got our stuff and had been swimming around for about 1/2 an hour when something shifted in the pocket of my swim trunks. Reaching down my fears were confirmed... cell phone. Yeah, not sure if you are aware of this or not, but cell phones don't really get along with water all that well! Oops!
When I got back to Mandeville Sunday and picked up Ionda, I told him what had happened. The initial outburst followed by him laughing from Knockpatrick all the way to the village made it worth the frustration of being such an idiot. He couldn't wait to tell everyone!! :)