Sorry, still no pictures. The SOS (Significant Others Society) at the med school dropped off a $5 WiFi card so that we could e-mail home. That $5 gets us only an hour so instead of loading pictures, I'm just going to quickly describe our first day!
We barely made the ferry last night. The driver said he didn't want to take that many people but I pretty much begged him so that we wouldn't have to haul ALL our luggage back to another hotel for another two nights (the ferry runs every other day). He let us on in the end and what a ride! We had pretty much the calmest seas you can get and the maybe 4-8 ft swells rocked the boys to sleep. They slept for the entire 2 hour ride. Other people weren't as fortunate and barf bags were plentiful.
But we made it and our landlord picked us up and delivered us to our GREAT new house. It is three bedrooms and very clean and pretty spacious as compared to our teeny-tiny hotel room on St. Maarten. The house is a termite's dream - everything is done in beautiful wood. All the furniture is wood, the walls are covered in wood panelling and the roof is vaulted wood ceilings. Water is an issue and they've had a bit of a drought right now. We have to be pretty conservative, not flushing very often ("if it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown, flush it down." :-D), taking careful showers, etc. I was pleasantly surprised to find a real, authentic Maytag washing machine in a cranny under the deck this morning but I'm too worried about water consumption to use it! I think our cistern that collects rain is small compared to most people's and that has me nervous. Hopefully we'll get some more rain soon.
I think I am quickly falling in love with Saba. We wandered down an incredibly steep hill today to get to Windwardside, the village that has most of Saba's commerce. All the shops were closed because today is their labor day but we liked walking around and seeing what people live like. Since no stores were open, we stopped for lunch at a little cafe. All of the people here seem so friendly and nice. Our landlords, Wayne and Imelda, are great and live not far from us. The lady across the street, Clover, is just a doll and since she knew we wouldn't be able to get groceries, she brought us over a bag full of milk, eggs, butter and freshly baked sourdough bread. Her daughter is a medical student just about to graduate, as is her son-in-law (who's from Idaho). They are LDS and are coming tomorrow with their baby daughter so it will be good to meet some more LDS people, even if they'll only be here a month. There is no branch of the church here, it is just us and one other LDS family starting this semester. Jaron thinks he may have met a single LDS guy on the ferry last night but we're not sure.
Genny - the air here smells like nothing. But, that's good because it's clean, but it's not a fruity smell like we thought it would be. The whole island is a steep mountain of rain forest. There are fruit trees all over but most seem to be in people's yards. There were two coconuts lying in our yard this morning. I went out to get one but it was covered in bugs and I chickened out. When we went out for our walk a few hours later, they were gone! We did knock a papaya out of a tree out back but it's not ripe yet. There are also guava trees all over but they don't seem ripe yet either. We're not sure, though, because who really knows what a ripe guava looks like anyway?!? Our neighbor, Elias, reached over the fence with a bunch of bananas which the boys quickly gobbled up. I couldn't taste a difference but Jaron said he thought they had more flavor than other bananas. When we saw Elias again this afternoon, Alden asked him for another banana and Elias obliged him. Like I said, everyone is just so friendly and nice here.
The towns are so quaint. Everyone's got whitewashed walls and red tile roofs and everything seems kept up quite nicely. We seem to have a lot of room compared to many people in the village but there are tons of huge houses set throughout the hills. We are definitely going to have to get a car before we explore the cove or the beach - after our short, extremely steep jaunt down to Windwardside this morning, we're not sure we should attempt a longer trip with just our trusty little double jogger.
We can see the ocean from our front yard and it just amazes me. It is so fun being in a place that is so different. I was feeling pretty lonely the night we spent on St. Maarten. It was fully hitting me how different everything is and how far from home we really are. But I haven't felt that here yet. I think there's a different feel to this island than that one, if that makes any sense. I feel like our neighbors are going to become like family and that will help a lot.
Well, I'm eating up our precious internet minutes. Hopefully I'll write again soon!
When our neighbors aren't home, I take the little tykes out to the deck on the far side of the house and bathe them there! It works out perfectly - no mess, no hastle. They love it because it's more like going swimming than having to have a bath.
When the neighbors are home, I bathe them in their swimmin' trunks. Even though there's only about 3 or 4 gallons of water in that tub, sometimes they like to share anyway! Eli seems to have grown up a lot since we got here and he and Alden are getting along famously. I'm so grateful now that I have two boys so close together!
Cars, cars, cars. We didnt' bring a lot of toys here but so far it hasn't mattered too much. Cars save our lives here. This is often what our living room looks like. Two boys, two cars, two "broom, brooming" engine noises.
For some reason my computer isn't saving when I fix a picture so I couldn't crop this. I found the BEST craft item at our grocery store yesterday, though. It is called "macarrones" pasta and is perfectly shaped like chunky little beads. We used them to make fishy necklaces, like Eli's pictured here. Great for fine motor skill development for the little ones! 
Into this little car:
