Poetry at Dart Park

Havent had time to post since we got back from Texas as we have been busy catching up from work. Last Friday we took an evening off and attended a poetry reading at Dart park on South Sound road. Dart is a large corporation here on the Island and has a huge charitable arm to keep on the governments good side. The park is behind the national trust building, a building we have biked or driven past a hundred or more times, But until we went looking for it Friday we didn't even it know the park was there. The park overlooks the water and has an outdoor amphitheatre and play areas. The poetry readings were indoors since it was after dark and the mosquitos are too big a problem outside. We were able avoid the mosquitos for the most part even though we sat on a picnic table outside and listened in. The night was designed to have poets on Cayman of all ages read some of their work. We went because two of our students were having their poems read by a third student. Surprisingly several more of our students had connections as their children were reading poems. It seemed that several of the primary schools had their students do a poem for class and then many chose to read it at this event.

Katie is getting ready for her first concert with the Cayman National Choir on June 7th. They will be singing with the Cayman National Orchestra at an event to be held at the Grand Old House on Petra Plantation and the concert is called around the world in an evening. They will be singing songs from all over the world and every Monday evening she heads off to practice.

Coming back from Texas, we brought all of Katie's scrap booking supplies and her special suit case. So of course American lost our luggage and we had to sweat out 24 hours of waiting for them to arrive. This seems to be a common problem with American and its flights to Cayman. We think its because they always oversell the flight so it is always packed then everyone is bringing several suitcases since vacationers come here usually for a week. So they hit their weight restriction and have to leave luggage for the next flight. The problem is we were on the last flight of the day so our luggage didn't come in until the next day. This being Cayman we had to run to the airport to pick up our luggage once it arrived because if we waited for American to deliver it, it would be a couple of more days.

We are into week five of our quarter and things just continue to fly along. We cant even catch our breath once we finish one task its right into another.

Texas for dental work and surprise birthday present

We are back in Duncanville, Texas this weekend so Scott could get some dental work done and we could surprise Katie's Mom for her birthday on Saturday. We left Grand Cayman at around noon on Thursday getting to Miami by 2 in the afternoon. But storms in DFW delayed our flight then caused a three hour flight from Miami to DFW to become a 6 hour flight and an unscheduled stop in Lubbock to refuel when the plane couldn't land at DFW. We had hoped to surprise Gail at her school in the early evening but that turned into a 1:00 a.m. wake up surprise when we finally got to Katie's parents house. Russell knew we were coming late last week and did such a good job of keeping the secret Gail had no idea, even slipping out to pick us up at the airport when our flight finally landed at midnight.

Today Scott got his tooth fixed. He had cracked a veneer last week and since they use different bonding material in Cayman we had to get the work done in the States. We could have gone to a dentist in Miami but decided to spend the extra money and come to Texas for Gail's birthday.

We are here through Sunday morning then return to Cayman.

Spring Cleaning

The first weekend of April meant spring cleaning of our house. We have gotten into the habit of not regularly cleaning and sweeping which meant the job was longer than it should have been. But after a couple of hours we had a sparkling kitchen, bathrooms and bedrooms and a living room that looked more like a living room and less like a storage room for all the stuff we bring home. The cats were a little freaked out but seem to have adjusted.

Friday night we went to the movies at Caymana Bay and saw Vantage Point which was actually a pretty good movie. It was pretty clear many of the people in the theatre had not seen the commercials and they were surprised that it was basically a telling of the same story from several different vantage points which meant that it was jumping back and forth. The quarter is now in full swing. Katie has had two classes with her Intro to College Studies students and is about to start the on line component which we are doing as a pilot program. Its funny you finish one quarter and before you catch your breath the next one is going and we are even already working on the summer schedule and faculty since registration for the summer starts at the end of April. The wheel just keeps turning.

Cayman National Choir

Katie has joined the Cayman national choir and is attending weekly practices in preparation for some summer concerts. This is something she has been talking about for a while and we have adjusted our Monday night work schedule so she can attend the practices. We are both looking forward to her debut and will post photographs when it happens.

It is beastly hot here most days which means a very hot and sticky rainy season is just around the corner and is not good news for the approaching hurricane season which begins in less than 60 days. It is also not good news for our electric bill. Even though we keep our home temperature at 80 degrees it is running a lot and electricity does not come cheap on this Island. The spring quarter is now in full swing and we are both working long days. We are planning to go to Little Cayman for our second wedding anniversary and finally get to see the third Island in the group. We are also fast approaching our one year anniversary of moving to Cayman, it certainly doesn't feel like a whole year has almost gone by.