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[[strikethrough]] a flat tire [[/strikethrough]] the road marked Parinass. After about a kilometer we decided we were walking away from Soufrière, so we asked a boy if we were on the right road - which we weren't - so we had to turn around and go back. The other sign post said Bains Jaune.  Why they couldn't mark it Soufrière I do not know. Probably the guides saw to it! We walked up the hill to what we think was the Bains. Anyway it is a nice pool built at the mouth of a spring. The water would have been quite warm enough to swim in - but it wasn't hot, as I had hoped and expected. This is about an hour and a half climb - over 3 kilo meters. We did not go on as it was getting too late, and we reached the car just as it was getting too dark to see clearly. There was a most beautiful sunset too.
Up until to-day we had been most excited about living on the side of the volcano Soufrière, but upon thumbing thru the guide

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book I [[strikethrough]] find [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] found [[/insertion]] that we weren't living near the ^[[insertion]] most [[/insertion]] famous one at all.  The one which erupted when Pele did is on the island of St. Vincent, so we still have that to get excited about all over again.
This place goes Mexico one or two better.  So far we have had 3 days of holiday, and now Sunday.  Then next week the 9th and 10 are also holidays.  I wonder how many more they will have before Christmas.

[[margin]] Sunday Nov 3. [[/margin]] 
This was a real day of rest resulting in our doing nothing. Dick put away a few specimens, and I read. Apart from that the day was a wash out.

[[margin]] Monday Nov 4. [[/margin]]  
Woke up remembering this was Aunt Hat's birthday.  In the morning we took a walk down to the place where Dick had previously found things in a culvert - not quite so successful this time.
The auto is still acting terrible, and we had to have help to push it out of the garage. Dick had to crank it 3 times as it also stalls easily. And cranking in the hot tropical sun is no joke. We went to town to the Ford place to see if they couldnt fix us up