Grenada Independance Day

Today was Grenada's Independance Day and we left the house early to take part in the festivities. It was really great, we went to the Stadium where the police, coast guard, prison guards, cadets, and various other officials from the Island were all in their dress uniforms. Now that wasn't the really awesome part, everyone there was dressed in the Grenada colors gold, red and green and when I say dressed I don't just mean a t-shirt, most were dressed in dresses, suits, and full outfits sporting their national colors. It was so cool to see. We did our part and wore what we could, Mekhi sporting green shorts and red shirt with a grenadian arm band on, me in yellow with a Grenada scarf on my head and Kell wore his grenadian scarf and a maroon (he says its red) shirt. LOL, Anyways lots of fun had by all.

PS after looking at our pics, I realized we didn't get any of the peeps in the real Grenadian outfits, sorry, but look in the background of most photos and you'll see the colors.

In the below pic, the man in the grey'ish suit is the Prime Minister

New Toys from Aunties and our Day at the Sailing Festival

Well it is the annual Grenada Sailing Festival and we made it to Grand Anse Beach just in time to see the boats coming in. The winning team won $1000 US Dollars. If you look at the sail boats, they are pretty cool, the beams are bamboo and they are just adorable. So here we are watching the festivities

Now Mekhi has been a very very lucky boy receiving many gifts from many peeps back home. Unfortunately I have not been able to get photo's of him with all of them (Dad he loves the caterpillar and Mum he gets excited about your book every time I take it out). So below is him reading his "Picture me Dinosaur" book from Auntie Brandee.

And here he is playing with part of the toy that came from Auntie Stephanie.

This, old toy, is his ducky, which I bought him months ago. Funny its been in a box for a while, I take it out and its like "oh Mum you bought me a NEW TOY!!!!" Gotta love it.

Watching some TV. Here is a video of him playing with the toy from Auntie Stephanie.

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I have TWO teeth!

Well here it is, he's a two tooth man now! He's eating home made food, mostly because they don't offer much for baby food here on the Island. Favorite food is sweet potatoe, with ANYTHING. So thats how I get him to eat his veggies. And today he had his first piece of whole wheat bread and loved it, I was shocked.

Here is our little goof screaming his head off.
My men, oh so serious, watching tv together.

For Auntie Steph

This is for Auntie Steph as she asked for us to make a video. Mekhi has started to crawl, usually when he wants to get somewhere to stand up. I realized after the video that as he gets closer to me the poor kid goes cross eyes...Kellon's concerned that Mekhi will be cross eyed forever haha.

What a Day!

Around 10:30am myself and Kellon were watching a movie on t.v. and Mekhi was sleeping in my lap, we were actually just discussing going grocery shopping in about 15 minutes time. All of a sudden I heard one gun shot, I said "Kell, thats a gun shot" and he was like "not necessarily". Then when the second gun shot rang out we both stood up and looked out our veranda door window. What we found across the road was a group of cops, and a cop van. The police were in uniform and plain clothes and they were firing shots in one direction, we couldn't see what they were shooting. Then no more shots, the police van went tearing down the road and a group of men scattering in different directions. I was freaking out and Kellon was checking all doors were locked, then we heard two more shots fired but this time in the bushes closer to our house!!!
At this point I was debating climbing into the closet with Mekhi, closing the door and praying for the best. Instead I calmly put Mekhi down in his play pen to sleep, covered it up with blankets so no one could see him and me and Kellon watched from the window for more action.
When we heard no more and saw no more action we locked the door and went on top of the roof of the apartment building to see if we could get any more information. From the roof we saw two police men in plain clothes walking with their guns pulled out. They asked Kellon if we saw anyone, he said no and they said to get inside. So inside we went, stairing out the windows at police in plain clothes and in army gear with guns pulled walking up and down our road. I'm not going to lie, at this point I did say to Kellon "We came to Grenada why??".
About an hour after the action, and knowing that Kellon was going to have to leave for work, I begged him to go down the hill and talk to our neighbour who was outisde to find out the details on whats happening. So after telling me I had better plan his funeral (to which point I asked if he would like pink roses for his casket), he made his way, chest puffed out like a big man, down the hill.
My knight in shining armor returned with all the details. It turned out that this morning, being a Sunday, 4 men decided to try and rob a bank that is found over the hill from our place. (Repeat...on a Sunday, when the bank is closed). Upon being found the four men ran through the bushes over the hill, the police chased them to our neighbourhood and thats when shots began firing. Aparently the police caught 2 men however the other 2 were still in the bushes around our neighbourhood. The police had the bushes surrounded so they believed the men were still in there and thats why they were patroling so heavily.
Now it is 8:15pm and I have no more news, as far as I know there are still two attempted bank robbers running through the bushes in my neighbourhood. The only thing I have to say is STAY AWAY FROM MY PAPAYA TREE! Another day in the life.