Our trip to Antiqua was not only a well needed break from the everyday life, but a time warp for Mike and I to be wrapped up in. To escape from work and phone calls, emails, daily demand, children, mundane tasks that overtake our days. Even habits that we don't realize unless we are completely removed from and put in another world how consumed our days are by them...
We almost must be removed, desensitized if you will from your daily existence, to take off the unknown blinders we wear to really see.
Driving through through country from the airport was almost a culture shock. It was exciting and beautiful to be somewhere so different.
Our resort was beautiful, but very different from the real world outside the gates.
We signed up to take a 4 hour tour through the country with a tour guide and ended up being the only ones signed up for then! Personal tour!! It was the highlight of the trip! Here is this beautiful country, where everyday is perfect weather, the main language is english, but the dialect is SO strong they can converse between each other and you don't understand to save your life, the drinking age is age 1, there is no traffic enforcement hardly, and the culture is unity.
This is to show you they drive on the opposite side of the street...oh and drive on the other side of the car!
Please excuse most of these pictures..they are not my best. They are through glass windows AND a moving car!
Dogs roam everywhere! But they are not strays! I asked! They know where they live, said the tour guide...we just don't have fences here!
This is their stadium for soccor!
A church
Their markets
THE HOSPITAL!
mangos
a school
old sugar mill...they are EVERY where in this country!
chickens
school kids
another school
PINEAPPLES!!!!
goats were everywhere too! this one was sleeping on some one's porch!!!
bananas
the rain forest!
someone making wine from cherry's in their yard!
graveyards
houses were made out of anything!
we then went and visited a beautiful historical harbor
The Police Station
Our tour guide GODFREY!!!!
Houses
Lizards ran everywhere
Back at the resort!
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