Today was another amazing day in Martinique. The whole group of us along with Dr. Wilkin and her family spent the day on the beach! Before arriving at the beach, we went to Le Diamant and visited a memorial for slaves that died in a ship wreck and we also stopped at an outdoor market in Saint Anne to do some shopping. We arrived at the picture perfect beach called "Les Salines" just in time for lunch and had a delicious picnic of bread with ham and cheese and lots of fresh fruit and fruit juice! After finishing our picnic we all decided to go swimming! There were some great waves that Mary discovered were fun to ride into the shore.

Its sad how quickly our time has passed this month. I can't believe we're headed back in just a week from today! Martinique has been an absolute blast. One of my favorite parts as been all the exciting new foods to try! Some better than others. There is always fresh, delicious fruit juice of some tropical sort for breakfast along with great tropical jam as well. In addition to fruit juice and jam we've been spoiled with eating lots of fresh fruit whole as well. Both Jessica and Hailey have taken advantage of the mangoes and guavas and we've all loved all the bananas! We've also had the opportunity to eat boiled bananas, which tend to made with a vegetable banana; they're quite good. Another thing that many of us tried, not knowing what it was, was coagulated pigs blood!?! It was disguised in mystery sausage looking packaging and had a dark color. Surprisingly it wasn't actually all that bad! Thank goodness we didn't find out it was coagulated pigs blood until AFTER we'd finished our meals though! In Martinique they eat a lot of fish, so we've all been eating lots of various dishes involving fish too! Hopefully our food tasting adventures aren't over yet though, because we still have one more week!


Here are some pictures from yesterday at the Capitol with the President of the Regional Conseil!

Nellie