The Highway to Haiti

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Life in Pictures

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Silas starfishing at Fort Saint-Joseph

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Lukey—out

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Sometimes when you think you’re having French style green beans for dinner…you get corn

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Hurricane Luke wipes out bridges on the “Island of Sodor”…again

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The Tiki Room at Cofresi

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Playa Grande

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Christ the Redeemer (Rio replica) atop Pico Isabel de Torres in Puerto Plata

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The original bucket bath

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Dauphin Plantation ruins in Phaeton. Once upon a time this was a swimming pool

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“Pirate ships” at Cormier Plage

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Dad keeping watch over Cap-Haitien from the Citadelle–the largest fortress in the western hemisphere. Pictures don’t do justice to this monstrosity. You gotta see it yourself! Hopefully one day they’ll finish the restoration. It’s really cool

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Marie-Louise in front of her husband’s “no worries” palace in Milot. When things heated up domestically for the king, she bolted for Italy. Completed in 1813, the palace was shattered by an earthquake in 1842

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Books in bed; always a hit!

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Matt, almost up on the kiteboard (next time it won’t be “almost”)

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Sprinkles! Cheese

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An 8-day “kwazad” (crusade) near our house. When you can’t hear each other talking inside your own house–it was rockin’

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Pam’s rooftop vegetable garden

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MPSL

posted by Matt at 4:00 pm  

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