The Hurricane Saga

Whew! It has been a LONG 5 days of travel! It all started on Saturday evening (Aug. 28th), when I left Fort Smith for DFW. Spent the night in Dallas and got to see a good friend one last time before she gets married.

Following a very short night of sleep, I arrived at DFW airport around 4:15am to check in for my flight to St. Maarten. I'm pretty sure I scared a newlywed couple in the airport that morning too. They made a comment that they were going to Anguilla thru St. Maarten. And I looked at them and said I hope that we can make it to St. Maarten because of the hurricane... At which time they look at each other and say "Hurricane??" HAHA! Oops... hate to break it to ya, but yes, there is a category 1 (soon to be category 3) hurricane headed straight for St. Maarten.

So, I make my flight to St. Maarten and the boat from St. Maarten to Saba has been postponed until further notice. Little did I know that "until further notice" meant tonight (Wednesday, Sept 1).

For the last 4 days I have been sitting in a hotel room watching Shrek 2 and Garfield on the hotel TV. They barricaded the doors so we could not leave the hotel and posted security guards everywhere! Riding out the Hurricane, which was a Category 3 by the time it was pulling out, was fun. I have some cool pictures and video that I will post once I get to Saba and have some decent internet.

After the worst of Earl leaves and we are doing just fine, that is when the power decided to go out. We lost it over 3 times that day with intervals of about 1,2 and 3 hours long respectively. The worst part was not having air conditioning because it was sooo hot in the room that I was sweating just sitting in the room talking. We had fun playing games by candlelight tho!

So, Earl is gone.. we are ready to leave and surprise, here comes Tropical Storm Fiona right behind Earl. It keeps the Dawn II from making a trip to pick us up, but luckily she wasn't bad at all and the boat is making a trip tonight!

This trip back to school has been fun, overwhelming, exhausting, relaxing, hot, boring, exciting, and hopefully will soon be OVER!

Pictures to come soon!