Carnival Cruiser and Bath Estates

We always hope when we first glimpse a cruise ship waaaaaaaaay out on the horizon that somone we know is on board.

(This picture is out of sequence but,) . . .
We're disappointed when no one we know disembarks in Roseau.

(This picture is obviously another out-of-sequence.)
We continue to hope as we drive down the street toward the dock ...

Tuesday, 6 July 2010, we took Elder Jackson and Elder Maldonado with us to see areas where "less-actives" might live. The following three pictures were taken in Bath Estates, a lush green area in which we wouldn't mind at all to live!

Roseau Group Meeting at 42A Steber Street, Pottersville

Sunday, 3 July 2010, was a new experience--a positive experience. Roseau Group met in our home at 42A Steber Street, Pottersville, Roseau. Folding chairs replaced living-room furniture, spare bedroom became a Primary/Youth classroom, kitchen was set up for Relief Society meeting. Congregation, seated left to right ...
Front: Rebecca George, Faith Morancie, Vanessa George, Marina George (different George family), Tony George.
Middle: Debbie Morancie, Jedi Morancie, Kathy George, Michael George, Reginald Hypolite.
Back: Denis Desenon, Gilbert Labad (investigator), Herman Caffe, Christabel Cooper, Elder Hadlock.Congregation didn't linger as long as we feared after Fast & Testimony Meeting. Brother Denis Desenon (blue-striped shirt) joined the Church about two years ago in Portsmouth. He is long way from his home, family and fiancee in Haiti.

Sunday Dinner at the Hadlocks

After Fast & Testimony Meeting we moved to the kitchen. Gilbert LaBad was happy for a last-minute invitation to join Sister Christabel and us for dinner. Knowing a little about cooking, he boldly shared his culinary expertise as he enjoyed our homemade chicken fajitas, Brazilian rice and spicy black beans.

Visiting teaching in Yam Piece, Stock Farm, etc.

Wednesday, at high noon, Sister Cooper and Sister Hadlock walked all the way to the top of a steep, very steep, hillside to visit three of four sisters that reside in Yam Piece, Stock Farm and Glassgo. Sister Hadlock hoped when we reached this point that it was half-way. "No, not yet!" Roseau Relief Society "leader," Christabel Cooper, needed a cool drink of water and a little rest along the way.

Beverly Caffe (Coffee) was the third of four sisters visited Wednesday under a very hot and humid midday sun! She lives in this house, that is still under construction, with her husband and three sons. She was formerly employed as a braider of tourists' hair but is currently unemployed. Her husband is a "joiner" (cabinet/furniture maker). The house will be four stories high when/if it is completed. It will probably remain forever behind the typical zinc fence.

Twelve-year-old Emmanuel Caffe, the youngest of two Caffe sons, proudly posed in his graduation cap, which he would wear with his uniform at his school's graduation ceremony later Wednesday afternoon.

Sea-wall scenes, Caribbean sunrise, water crafts

It must be more fun to be a watcher than a fisher! Even simple things like a barge, a fishing boat and a dock are beautiful at sunrise.

. . . and way off to the left on the horizon a large freighter coming into port.

We do not know what sort of water craft this might be??? We do know it is not "built tight like unto a dish."

Pottersville emancipation commemoration parade???

Before the Parade - - - passes by!We think this is some sort of representation of things past--long past. We also think it is part of Pottersville's commemoration of emancipation but do not know for sure. All we're sure of is the little parade marched past our house Sunday afternoon, 27 June 2010.

What the costumes represent we do not know. All we know is we're grateful it was not us wearing all those hot plastic and rag costumes!

Nightime "dancin' in the street"

Honestly, the more I mess with editing and trying to get pictures in order the BIGGER MESS I MAKE!!! Having said that, THIS is the after-dark picture of Friday night's "dancin' in the street"--the one inadvertently deleted from the previous post; the shot of one bass and two snare drummers and Johnny-one-note (One-Note-Joe) tooting on a valveless trumpet; the 'dancin' lady in red; the game of "peppa" behind her. (Thanks for indulging this bungling editor!)

New-arrival missionary, Elder Maldonado, and Elder Jackson pose by map of Dominica which hangs on our kitchen wall to the right of our precious freezer. They were happy to indulge our desires for their picture knowing supper was on the stove. We served them the lastest adaptation of "Dominican Surprise" with garlic breadsticks and gluey brownies.