Arriving to Tobago!

Today we left the lodge at 7am to get to the airport on time for our flight to Tobago! We were all really excited to go & when we were walking out to the airplane, we took a bunch of selfies & pictures of each other haha. It was like a scene from a movie. The flight from Trinidad to Tobago was about 20 minutes so it was a new experience to be on an airplane for that amount of time. On the plane I met a Jamaican guy whose name was Devon. He's 35 an works for Digicel, a cellphone plan company popular in the Caribbean. He was flying to Tobago for a presentation he had. He mentioned how he has been to sooo many pales around the world & thought that was really cool. The whole plane ride, we talked about traveling & the different places he's been to & how different they are & stuff. We landed in Tobago & had to run out of the airplane through some rain & wind.. We were looking through the window while waiting to get off & watched a ladies hat fly off her head & it took like 3 other guys to run after it & chase it haha. It was pretty entertaining. We got our luggage then went out to get on our bus. We stopped at Penny Savers, a grocery store to stock up on some food for our cabins since we'll be in Tobago for a week. My group had me, Morgan, McKenzie, Lauren, & Q. It was fun walking around the store figuring out what we need & want. Seems like we got more than both since we went $100 over our $700 budget! After, we made our way to a produce stand & got some stuff from there too. Some of us stayed on the bus & were telling the other group members what to get through the windows & stuff, it was funny. After that, we stopped at a restaurant to get some food & I got fries, potatoes & macaroni salad. I've been getting tired of eating meat with bones in it so I avoided that. Leaving the bones in is a thing here so that's another thing that I have to get used to. From there we finally continued to make our way to the cabins. Upon arrival, we dropped off Suzanne & her family off first then went over to ours. We unloaded the bus & checked out the place. Ours is pretty cool.. I'm sharing a room with Morgan then McKenzie & Lauren are right next to us & Q has his own apartment almost in the back part of the cabin. Everyone kind of did their own thing. Some were unpacking, some of us went to the beach which is basically our front yard! It's like 20 feet outside of our cabins which is so nice! We hung out for a bit then decided to go to a bar down the street. We went to one called Sharon & Pheb's Restaurant & Bar. It was super nice & on the hill so there were like 3 flights of stairs to get up to it. There, we all ordered some drinks. It was actually our first time having drinks as group! Everyone got Carib's- a local beer that's pretty good- and I got a Smirnoff black ice which was also pretty good. We were all talking among each other then some of us decided to get another round. Harmony, Morgan & I asked the cashier what kinds of drinks she makes & she ended up making us one that she called "rummy fruity" which had some dark rum, lime, brown sugar & some orange juice type thing- it was real good! A few of the others went to get one too haha. I saw that Debbie got some Bailey's on the rocks so I went for my 3rd & final round & got some too! The cashier warned me about mixing drinks so I made it clear that this was my last one haha. It was so much fun just hanging out, joking around & sharing stories as a group.. Everyone is so laid back & fun to be around. We hung out there for a few hours since it started to rain so we waited it out for a bit too. We left the bar with 2 bottles of White Oak rum to have for ourselves & went back to the cabins to kill some time before our meeting. We ran into Suzanne, Michael & Declan on the beach & they followed us in to get a tour of our cabins.. Declan came in with a branch of big red leaves that he found on the ground & gave it to us to have in our little home haha:) Q, Varsha, McKenzie, Lauren, Morgan & I hung out in the room & chatted then Harmony, Megan & Bailey came to join us. That was also fun just kicking back for a bit :) there are a couple of stray dogs on the island & some wander around the cabins & follow us around which is pretty cute but safe cause some have open wounds & we can't do anything with them, but, we names them which is really funny & cute when they're around trying to figure out who is who. We named them with dessert names so one is brownie, one is muffin, another is cupcake & one is lemon pie haha. We went over to cabin #5 where the other girls were staying & had dinner there made by 2 women that work here. We all chatted it up at dinner with Suzanne & the family then went back to our own cabins & ended the night doing some homework. Also, it was pouring nonstop all throughout the day so we hope that it clears up for the remainder of our time here!