It never ends...

...it just keeps coming and coming. Last Friday was Antillean Day so we had the day off, which in med school doesn't necessarily mean a day off, it's just another that can be spent studying and I'll give you one guess who did that. There were a bunch of parties going down on Thursday but I decided to stay in and just get some me time in, watched Volver and got some good sleep. The next day we went "hiking" on Pic Paradis, we left at 9:30am to avoid midday heat but that was difficult because the French side was packed since they apparently don't observe the day. So the drive there was fun and we didn't really know where to go (what else is new). We kept driving up until the path become dirt and rocks, where the Green Machine would not have been too happy to climb.

So anyway we are getting ready for this huge hike up the hill and it is already very humid. On the plus side for some reason there was a huge concentration of butterflies up there, which made it seem like we were on the set of some fairy movie. So we are climbing up and few minutes later we come to a view point which is BEAUTIFUL. Not only were there shadows from clouds on the hills but we could see the Caribbean Sea and pretty much the whole Dutch side of the island, along with neighboring islands (I believe two were St. Barts and Saba). We could see the school and the lagoon and the two major cities of the island, Phillipsburg and Marigot. The view was absolutely gorgeous and I wish I could study up there because it was so serene.


Now for the good part...so on the way down we met an American couple that was on their way up. They told us that some cars had been broken into and the lady that lived by where we parked had called the police. We met the French police on the way up, and they didn't speak a lick of English and closest we had was Spanish. So after a bit of confusion we learned that they were asking if we saw "a little black man." We had not and they told us not to touch the car because they wanted to get fingerprints. However we did not leave anything in the car and even left the doors unlocked incase of something like this. Either way they let us go after checking everything out and we went on our merry way, although this did give us a taste of what people had warned us about.

To be continued....after the anatomy review....maybe....