My First Outdoor Wednesday

Susan is our gracious hostess for Outdoor Wednesday. Participants post pictures of anything that they might find outdoors. If you'd like to join in, click here for instructions.

As some of you may know, my tiny country, Trinidad was the host of the 5th Summit of the Americas, for three days all eyes were on Port of Spain as we hosted 34 Presidents/Prime Ministers or Heads of States from around the world.

All guests were welcomed and distinguished, including Barack Obama, Hugo Chavez, and many others you can click here to see all the heads of state that participated.

For my outdoor Wednesday post I would like to show you some shots of the Captital of my country Port of Spain, (most of the pics are clickable)

This cruise ship, the 'Carnival Princess' was brought in to house members of the media, both local and foreign, so that they could be close to the event. But more importantly it housed some members of staff including me! it was sooo much fun, having never been on a cruise, I definitely plan to take one soon, I'll show pics of my stay on this ship on my next post.

This is a view from the Hyatt Hotel which is on the same compound as my office building.

An arial view of Port of Spain

This is a view from the ocean of the Hyatt Hotel and my office building

Downtown Port of Spain, complete with KFC

This is Fort George, it is beautiful here and the views of Port of Spain are amazing, one of the very few forts, we really havent fought many wars!

Our skyline at night

I hope you enjoyed my first Outdoor Wednesday post! be sure to visit Susan to see more posts!

My job and other ramblings

I've given you guys some views of my workplace, It is really quite nice, however, I know many of you were curious about what it is I do, I was hired by my Government, (best employers) to assist a foreign company, who are here to assist my Government (confused yet?) to arrange an aspect of the Fifth Summit of The Americas, I was interviewed by the foreign company and my salary was negotiated with them as well, but I am paid by my Government. I act as a liaison between the company and local firms and also the other departments of the Summit Secretariat. That's my job in a nutshell, lots of meetings, deadlines, busy and fun! I really missed dressing up everyday, and interacting with co-workers.

This is a view of my office building at night, from the waterfront and fountain


















What I did not miss was the traffic, it has gotten progressively worse in the 13 odd months I have been a SAHM, do I miss being a SAHM? you bet your sweet cookies! I would take it any day, but as i explained in an earlier post, in my now in-accessible blog, there are projects I want to undertake at home that one salary just cannot be stretched to do, and of course extra curricular activities for the kids, vacations, (Tismee 2 Gail) the vacation queen knows what I am speaking of.

My patio that I want to furnish in the very near future.







Speaking of traffic something exiting road-wise is happening today, a major highway, (well major for us anyway) was under construction, an overpass that would take away a huge amount of cars heading south, and ease up the east dwellers like me, is opening today!! YAY!! no more traffic, well, we'll see, it's really big and impressive (again for us anyway) lol! and it's opening today!

This is the artist/designer's interpretation, I can only describe it from the ground, in you know what I mean.


















But of course the highlight of my job, or rather the highlight of the Summit is that U.S. President Obama was taking part!!! And being part of the summit staff, I was bombarded with questions about, 'would I get to see him?' 'would i get to meet him?' 'would I take a pic while sitting on his lap? ' actually just Nikki asked that one, she's such a smartmouth!

So, no I did not get to meet him, I am not the wife of any Head of state, I depended on pics in the media just like the rest of the country, I did get to see his car, you know the big black car, yup it was parked just outside my office, and I looked at it!! woo hoo! ok, not all that exiting really.

Here are some pics that I did not take, of course,






the handshake seen around the world, and it happened here!!

















US President and My Prime Minister





In my next post I will give pics of my actual summit experience, it was soo much fun!