You know you're in the Caribbean when...

(Here is a video of Ella because she is just so dang cute! :))

I honestly thought I had posted this already, but I guess not on here! If I have....oops :) So here is the official "You Know You're in the Caribbean When...." I'm sure there will be more as time goes, though...

• There is a guy shaking his you-know-what in the middle of the road.


• You can't get through a street because there are too many goats in the way.


• Your car catches air at least once a week from going 40 over a speed bump you didn't see.


• You can't jog through the golf course because it is trespassing, but apparently it is okay to be a homeless guy living in one of the abandoned buildings mugging people – that's not trespassing.


• You can't walk/drive through the golf course at night because of these homeless people.


• The security guards open and close the gates when you come and go regardless of who you are, what crimes you've committed, or where you're going. Nice security.


• Security guards are merely a formality, and barely even that.


• You go outside and it takes you ten minutes to start sweating and you think, "Hm, kind of chilly today."


• You need an off-road vehicle just to go to the grocery store.


• Grocery shopping takes you four hours and six different stores to get everything you need.


• Everything is posted in gilders and kilos, but everything is transacted in dollars. Go figure.


• The roads are so flooded after a light sprinkle that jellybean cars often flood their engines just trying to get through the puddles.


• A fat Italian owns your road, so you have to use the scary dirt one instead.


• There are hundreds of scary, mangy dogs running around everywhere.


• There are pigs in the dumpster behind the 1-2-3-4 and More store.


• Ace is by FAR the nicest, cleanest, well lit, best priced, most American, most refreshing store on the whole island.


• If you have to sweep your house at least 4 times a week, and each time it is like half the beach is in your house!


• If people around you have never even heard of carpet.


• If the natives are speaking English, but you aren't even close to understanding it!


• If you have to worry about someone stealing your car door…just the door.


• You're not sure if it's a pond, or a pothole…probably a pothole.


• When you have to bring a cooler in the car to keep your food cold on the way home from the grocery store.


• When tourists are better drivers than the locals.


• Complete strangers treat your child like it is theirs – and discipline like it's theirs.


• Your apartment has the pungent smell of marijuana.


• The best restaurant on the whole island is a little window called Pizza Dan's.


• When beer is cheaper than water, and ice is extra.


• When crabs fly out of your air conditioning vents.


• When monkeys show up on your doorstep.


• When you go to sleep to the sound of dog fights and cat fights.


• You pull over to look at the ocean views.


• When it takes four different gas stations to refill your propane tank.


• Island time is not on a watch, but a concept and a mindset.


• When it's okay to drink and drive, but not to eat fried chicken and drive.


• When you are prejudiced against because you are the white male.


• When you hang out in stores just for the air conditioning.

And here are some cute pictures of Ella just for fun :)

So sweet!

Derek Zooland

HIPPO TEETH!

She LOOOVES Mac n Cheese!