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Friday was election day in Saba! It started with car horns honking at around 6:00 am — just to get the excitement going! All day on Friday, while the elections were taking place, there were car horns blaring as cars drove around with flags for either the Orange or Blue party. The Orange party is the Windwardside Islands People’s Movement (WIPM) and the Blue party is the Saba Labour Party (SLP). The two parties present a combined total of 10 candidates for 1 seat in the Netherlands Antilles Parliament. Since Saba is a small island, everyone knows all of the candidates — this makes it an interesting election process. It’s not like in the States, where we often don’t know the candidates and must rely on websites, televison, newspapers, debates, etc. to find out as much as we can.
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It’s been nearly 7 weeks since we moved to Saba and we’ve only gotten a trickle of our mail from the U.S. We have two ways of getting mail — (1) it is forwarded to an exporter in Florida, who ships it to us twice a month; and (2) it is sent directly to our Saba address. The second option is the tricky one, since we are fairly new to the island. Couple that with a new mail carrier and you’ve got a bit of a problem.
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So what do we do in Saba when a friend comes to visit? Last week, our friend, Kelley Reagan came for her first visit to our new island home. As we thought about what to do while she was here — it occurred to us that there is so much to do in Saba, and yet so little. It all depends on your perspective. One thing’s for sure, Saba is a great place to create your vision of an ideal life. It’s the perfect place to dream — and to feel the energy that makes dreams into reality.

A Little About Kelley
I met Kelley 2.5 years ago in Burlington, Vermont at David Swenson’s Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Certification class. We spent the week at Yoga Vermont, learning how to perfect our Ashtanga practice and support others in learning how to perfect theirs. On the first day of class, I met Kelley — her mat was right next to mine and she and I struck up a conversation. Kelley has a dream — she is getting ready to build a business and life that she will love — and I was in the same place at that time in my life. So we struck up a friendship as two dreamers, taking steps to create our ideal lives.
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