At 1:30 pm today I was getting my hair cut. At 2:00 pm my hair was cut and the coloring process begun... at 2:45 pm we walked to school to pick up our children. Promptly at 3:00 the entire Eastern Caribbean started shaking. Yes, that is how great my new 'do is. Good enough to trigger an earthquake!
Ha! In reality I'm not surprised to have experienced an earthquake during our stay on Dominica. After all, the island is volcanically active, with vents under the sea. It is this geological force which provides the island with so many hot springs, including the second largest boiling lake in the world. Dominica is one of the few islands that is 'growing' rather than eroding. You can read a news report on the earthquake by clicking on this link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071129/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/caribbean_earthquake.
I've never been in an earthquake before, and this one will make a good story. 7.3 on the Richter Scale, but no one got hurt. I found the experience to be exciting, but many of my friends were quite frightened by it. It was strong enough to be felt by all, and to trigger feelings of nausea, but not quite strong enough to knock things off shelves. My husband hardly noticed it at all, his comment was "I was walking and I thought there was something wrong with the building I was entering."
In other news, I had my haircut A-line style, a 'do I have been wanting ever since Junior High. I love my new cut, and can't wait to grow the front longer, increasing the angle that gives the hairstyle it's descriptive name. According to several sources, it's taken 10 years off of me. Wait a minute, does that mean I used to look REALLY old?
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