Update

Randy and Karen are back in town! Although I managed to hold down the fort without them it's good to have them back. They had a good time in BC and managed to surprise Karen's family. This past Saturday, I decided that it was time to attempt to do some shopping in Haiti. I convinced Cadeau to come with me so that I wouldn't get too lost. It was an event! First of all, as I was driving down the road, Cadeau pointed out to me that there was a big hole in the road (a sewer hole that was missing it's grate), someone was behind me honking their horn, and people were everywhere. I thought that I'd be able to position my tired on each side of the hole and I'd be fine. Unfortunately I thought wrong. One of the tires landed right smack in the middle of the hole. We jumped out of the car and I noticed that one of the tires was spinning in the air. I thought we were in big trouble and we were totally stuck. People on the street were looking at me like I was crazy, and Cadeau said, "Kim I told you there was a hole!" Cadeau climbed back in and put the car in reverse and slowly backed up, amazingly the car reversed and the tire popped back out of the hole. We looked under the car and it looked like there was no damange. God was really taking care of us! The rest of the day was much less eventful. We went to the vegetable market and bought some vegetables. I love this market, it's very lively and the prices are really reasonable. After that we stopped on the side of the road to buy some furniture. When I was in West Africa this past summer, I found that the salespeople there loved to barter with us (although I didn’t like to barter back), here in Haiti they don’t love to barter with Canadians. They think we’re rich and are insulted that we’d offer a lower price than they are asking (even if their price is outrageous). So even though Cadeau was helping me the one place wouldn’t barter at all so I didn’t buy the one bookshelf that I loved. The next two places were willing to barter a bit. I bought some nice plants, another bookshelf and a coffee table. Overall, it was a successful day. We celebrated by going to Munchies for some pizza and then picked up Randy and Karen from the airport.