On Wednesday, Dr. Jones was on my mind frequently, so in the afternoon, I gave her a call. She had just returned from Trinidad and was returning back to Trinidad in the morning. She is the person we met in Price Smart a few weeks ago. We talked for awhile and discovered how much we had in common. She teaches education classes for the University of Trinidad and Tobago at 16 different sites in Trinidad. She is involved in elementary and special education. She was picking my brain about sped issues and wants to model after the US. She invited us to dinner on Sat night at 6. She gave us directions to her home so we could be sure we knew how to get there. She asked what she needed to avoid besides coffee, tea and liquor. Her parents have been members for 20 years. Her dad has passed away and her mother still lives in Florida. I got the feeling she was doing this for her mother because at the end of the call she said she was going to call her mother to let her know we were coming for dinner. It was a repeat of the feeling I had when we met her in Arima.

Thursday we followed her directions to a home on top of a hill where the TSTT towers for phones, etc. are located. It is very remote. We left the pavement and drove back on a rutted dirt road through the trees and foliage to emerge at the house. We couldn’t see the view from the front of the house or through the trees, but we knew it had to be good because of where the towers were located. The front of the house doesn’t show the second story, exquisite backyard, patio and pool on the edge of the hill with a breathtaking view of the Atlantic and the city of Scarborough and the end of the island where we live.

Plus, there is a nice view of Trinidad and the oil rigs in the ocean, all of which we would discover on Saturday at 6:00 pm just as the sun was going down.