Two eventful days...

Well, my first weekend completely carless in Haiti has been quite eventful. My car is in the "shop" until an undetermined time. Randy and Karen's personal car has been in the garage for a long time and the car they were borrowing is now also in the shop. So we are officially without a car. Thankfully Dr. Ed has a visitor staying with him right now and so he's been taking him around town and we've tagged along. On Friday we headed up to Baptist Mission. When we arrived at Ed's house he asked which of his two trucks we preferred to drive in, I choose the white truck because it was airconditioning and we wouldn't have to sit in the cage in the back. He said okay and just as we were about to leave he mentioned that the white truck tends to overheat from time to time so we'd have to stop occasionally to add water to the radiator. We took the back way up the mountain which is always an adventure, lots of loose gravel and the possibility of washed out roads. We were about 3/4 up the mountain when the truck decided that it needed a good long drink. Steam was billowing out the front. We stopped, gave it a chance to cool down and then tried to add some water, the little leak that was in the radiator from before has increased dramatically in size. We managed to continue and made it up the rest of the way having to stop a few more times. The stopping wasn't really the problem, the problem was all the concerned onlookers who were determined to help us out. Lots of unsolicited advice was given and one man even took the water jug and started to fill up the radiator for us. We managed to fight off all the helpful onlookers and had a great time at Fort Jacques and Baptist Mission. The way home was smooth until we were almost home, we were back in PAP when the truck decided it was done for the day. Of course we were on a busy and narrow road so we successfully blocked traffic. We waited for a little while to allow the truck to cool off and then started once again and we were able to make it home.
Saturday we tagged along to the beach. This time we took the other truck:) We had a great day, relaxing, swimming and eating great Haitian food. After lunch we decided to go snorkeling. We paid a guy to take us out in this boat to check out a nearby reef. Once we were all in the water, Chris (Ed's visitor) mentioned that there was a jelly fish in the water near him. I freaked out and jumped into the boat. I had never seen a jelly fish in my life but promised the others that I'd be on the look up for them. Shortly after I saw 3 jellyfish in a row. Two kids were in the water and one of them took the fish out of the water and passed it to the guy in the boat, the guy pulled the tentacles off and told me that jelly fish don't hurt at all and proved it to me by rubbing the fish over his arm. This didn't convince us at all and in fact we all got out of the water except for Chris. After a while Chris got bored being in the water by himself and got into the boat as well. So much for snorkeling.
Sunday we were able to walk to church since there is a church right across the road from my house. The rest of the day we relaxed and took it easy. I can't believe my sister's are leaving tomorrow. The week had gone so fast.