We have been a busy bunch around here! We went to the Bahamas during the week of Thanksgiving! What an awesome time. I was worried the weather wouldn't be all that hot or nice, but I was totally wrong! The weather was beautiful! It rained a little one day and that was it! Sunny and around 80 the rest of the week. The kids had so much fun. We spent some time at the beach but they didn't like the giant waves so we were at the pool or the lagoon that they could walk right into the water and have no waves. Grace was into looking for sea life. She found a sea urchin and some hermit crabs so she was pretty excited. Christopher was just into knocking down any sand creations that any of us made and being in the water. That kid is going to swim by himself in no time. He freaks me out b/c he doesn't want anyone to hold on to him. I could go on forever but I am going to sum up the trip with some entertaining highlights:
FALL IS HERE!!!
1. Rosemary fell down trying to sit on her little walker thingy. It was in a liquor store. She was ok, so that then we could laugh. Later.
2. At a buffet dinner a few nights later, people walking past Rosemary's walker kept running into the handles. There was plenty of room, yet they kept doing it. The final straw was a man I would say was in his 70's. His old school windbreaker caught the rubber handle and him and his 2 plates did a 360, then hit the ground in a running/sliding/spinning motion. I have to say it was the coolest looking fall I have ever seen! Again, because he was ok, we could laugh. Later. At the time, Rosemary was frustrated everyone kept running into her walker so she bellows out, as the guy is laid out on the ground 3 feet away, "what is wrong with people!". I just about freaked! I just said back, "Rosemary, the guy is on the ground next to you! Shhh!"
3. At the beach the very next day, I was joking that I woudl be the next. John was trying to convince me to go in the water which seriously looked like minor tsunami waves and I wasn't really all too thrilled, but thought why not. I barely get in without being knocked over but I am only about 5 feet from John on the beach and I can't even touch bottom and the waves are just crashing over my head. He is cracking up and I think I am going to drownd. I get out of the wave and start runnign up the beach telling John he is crazy as he heads into the water. I look back and am completely freaked out by what I see: the top of his bald head coming at me horizontally in the midst of mini tsunami! He washes up on the beach and is cracking up! I notice his glasses are gone. He says that the water took those off his face so fast he figured he better grab his shorts before those went too! By the time he grabbed them, they were at his knees! He said he thought he was going to wash up naked!
PARADISE!!!
I had a Goombay Smash at least once a day. It is some rum concoction that we had been trying to recreate here and figured out we were pretty close! It has coconut rum, dark rum, pineapple juice, orange juice and some other stuff. Ahhh. Tasty.
We stayed in a regular hotel room that had no air. We changed rooms and that one had the a/c working perfect! We then moved to the condos for 2 nights. The moving rooms sucked, but was totally worth it.
I didn't want to leave! Grace was really mad and said she should just stay in the Bahamas. She could drive a bus and when I come back, she would say "oh, I used to know you, you used to be my my mom!"
I think that should satisfy everyone for now. Well the 2 of you.
