Finally, after a year of living in Grenada, I got Chris to come visit!!! It was kind of a surprise and I only had about 3 days to plan his week, but we were lucky that he came when there were no cruise ships and we weren't over run by tourists! Although I have lived here for what seems to be an eternity, I have not had the time to travel around the country and it was nice that we were able to experience it together!
Here are some of the things we were able to enjoy:
Hiking to Seven Sisters Waterfall - The hike was about 45 minutes each way. It was very steep and muddy most of the time. At the beginning, we passed through farm land where locals were growing guava, passion fruit, avocados, and pineapples. Learning about the different plants and fruits was my favorite part about the hike.... did you know it takes 2 years for a pineapple to be fully grown? Enjoy your pineapple people!
Seven Sisters was beautiful! There are seven waterfalls total.... below is a picture of the last two. The top waterfall is 37 feet high! There was a local that did a back flip off the top and then dove from the second. Even though the water was murky from all the rain, I got in and tried not to freeze to death!
The avocados here are HUGE! Here is a tree packed full of them!
Seven Sisters Waterfall
Our Beach - Almost every day before dinner, we would walk down my street to the beach and watch the sunset and collect sea glass. I have a whole jar of sea glass just from our couple days on Point Salines beach.
Trip to St. George's - I figured Chris needed to see Grenada's capitol and market place so we went and walked around the hustle and bustle of a busy Saturday. I am still shocked that they sell fish and meat out doors on hot days.... it smells terrible, there are flies EVERYWHERE, and they cut the meat off with a machete....just too much for me! The market had local fruits and spices. Chris bought vanilla and cocoa balls from a local we had met who told us the history of Grenada. I bartered with a man for a nutmeg bracelet and enjoyed a coconut water.
The streets of St. George's
Scuba Diving - It was wonderful to have a guest in town but I also had to go to class and couldn't ignore the fact that I was still in school! That is why I decided to enlist Chris in scuba school while I was in class! He went out about 4 days and became scuba certified... now we can scuba together!
Scuba boat for Scuba Certification
Turtle Racing - On Monday nights, The Owl has crab racing. Unfortunately, the crabs had "gotten away" earlier in the day so we ended up with turtle racing, which I enjoyed more because I got to hold and play with some. They put the turtles in the middle of a circle and you have to bet which one will leave the circle the fastest or which will leave the circle the slowest. We won a couple but lost a couple as well...
The contenders
Food - My favorite part about having Chris here was the fact that I had someone to go out to dinners with! You forget as a student that there are nice places to go to....usually I am too busy to go around looking for local cuisine but I made it a priority to find good places to eat while he was here. We went to the Beach House, had street meat from local chefs, bar-b-q from Deuce's, yellow fin tuna from Carib-Sushi, and pizza from Prickly Bay. My hands-down favorite was Boots which is a restaurant ran by an older couple that cooks local dishes in their house! We went to their house and there were tables and chairs on their front porch. The wife served us little appetizers of local foods while Boots made the main meal. It was delicious and extremely cute. I would love to go there again!
Menu at Boots
I loved having Chris here and am already missing his company! I hope you enjoy my rundown of our Grenada vacation!
Miss you!
