and I tried to catch up on the blog this morning. I'm not sure really how much time people anticipate this takes me..honestly it depend on my level of concentration and intoxication (which is directly inversely correlated) (FYI, at first I wrote adversely correlated which is also true but I don't think its right). It can take me between an hour and two hours to get my thoughts all coherently on the page, and the appropriate photos in the appropriate spots. I was reading the blog to Jay last night and talking about the copious amounts of tequila (there really is no denying it) that Trev and I have consumed and he said "What, have you been going to bed drunk every night?" Yeah, pretty much. Anyway, its a good thing we didn't have anything planned for this morning because Lea gave Avery her enema and she pretty much pooped for the next few hours! Sweet little thing, she's feeling so much better now!
Sometime before lunch we decided that we would go to the beach. It was about 10:00am. The girls boogie boarded in the waves and we had a lot of fun. The beach where we are is about 50% sand and 50% rock, so its not the best for the kids. I think tomorrow we're going to try to go to a sandier beach.
When we got back from the beach Julia had our lunch ready, it was a pork roast with homemade apple sauce, salad and fruit. It was delicious - but all meat is well done here..there is no medium or pink in the middle. It gets cooked, then it sits on a plate until you're ready to eat. So while its not HOT, its 80 degrees, which is room temperature - lol.
When we were done lunch and while Jay was getting the girls ready for going out after lunch and everyone was organizing, I filled the sink up with soapy water and started doing the dishes. Julia said to me (and this isn't the first time she has said this to one of us, Mardell said the same thing to Dwayne when he helped to empty the garbage) "You people never cease to amaze me, I've never had a guest come up in here and start doing their dishes". I was just killing time, we had to leave straight after lunch once the kids were all organized and I felt bad leaving her with all the lunch mess.
We left pretty much after that and went to the Barbados Wild Animal Preserve on the island. The great thing about this trip in Barbados is that is seems to rain every time we get in the car, but NEVER rains on us otherwise. It also rains overnight every night, so everything is green, but we never have rain during the day! Its about 20 minutes away from us by car to the Preserve and was an easy drive. I had read online that you should wear good footwear (so we all wore sneakers) and that you should plan to be there for 2pm, which is feeding time for the animals. So we arrived for 1:45pm and walked to the feeding area and wow, when the wheelbarrow full of fresh fruits and veggies was dropped in a pile it was a free for all for the monkeys, tortoises and brocket deer (a weird deer with sharp devil horns). It was a lot of fun and the monkeys and other animals were within an arms length of us. And the paths were all weeble wobbly cobble stone, so the sneakers were a must as well.
We had only one incident with an angry monkey that first made a little bit of aggressive movement against the girls, baring his teeth. And then moved on to Trevor, who grinned at the 'silly monkey'. Then a Bajan guy said to Trev, don't smile at it, it takes your teeth as an act of aggression. So then all of us tried not to smile at the pretty monkeys. At one point we went into the reptile area and saw an enormous reticulated Python, in the next area we saw guinea pigs that were kind of being stored under a bird exhibit..hmm, wonder what they're used for?
We headed back over to the other side of the reserve, which was a forest and up an observation tower for a great view of the north coast.
That was a quick outing - Leanne said "this is my kind of activity Dana, in, out and back to the house!" I think all told we were gone from the house for about 90 minutes!
When we got back I was so hot - I had been sitting in the back back seat of the 8 passenger APV, and this is no Ford Explorer where you walk through two buckets to get to the back row, oh no, you climb over, butt in the air into the back seat. I climbed over and said to Dwayne "Like a cheetah". I'm not even sure what that means, I was just VERY impressed with myself that I didn't do a face plant, put a foot in anyone's face or get stuck half way over. Back to me being hot...So I got on my swimsuit when we got back, only both my pairs of bottoms were out on the pool deck, so instead I doubled up on underwear and wore them out to the pool. Oh my goodness, to the girls you would think that I was crazy! They told everyone that I was wearing my underwear in the pool in a hushed voice..like telling it quietly is not revealing a secret..so like their Dad. I couldn't have cared less that I was wearing underwear, but they thought it was hilarious!
Julia came out to the pool to chat with us about tomorrow's brunch. We already figured we had to go to the store, yet again, to get bread, eggs and bacon for brunch, and she confirmed it. We asked her to sit down with us at the patio and Jay went in the house and got her drink and ice for her. She sat and chatted with us for about half an hour and just relaxed, it was really nice.
Julia used the rest of the Mahi Mahi that we had from the other night and made fish tacos for dinner tonight. So we finally got to use the taco sauce that I bought by accident for a purpose! We're lucky that I'm staying for another week, because we have a lot of leftover food to use up that I can take with me to the next house. We're actually hoping that I can get access to the next house early in the day on Sunday so that we can check out of this house and go straight to that house for the day and use that pool so that we don't have to try to kill 4 hours with packed cars before I drop everyone to the airport and pick up Mom and Maria.
I'm just finishing up writing in bed, and then I'll add the photos and Jay just said to me "Good job on the tequila today, I'm surprised you're blogging...or sitting up". HAHA, I can hold my tequila - especially after 6 straight days of it! We tried, and by we I mean me and Trev, to switch to rum at one point. But rum goes with lemons and then Trev needed antacid. Limes, no problem but lemons are a no go - so he said with a flourish of his hand "I will drink tequila - - let them drink Rum!" (Them being us when we run out of tequila!)
**I just had to re-open my laptop and add this. I closed my computer and turned my phone to airplane mode for the night. Neither my phone or my ipad automatically changed the time zone, which is one hour ahead from home. So I switched one of them at one point because I had to set an alarm. My phone as I set it to airplane mode for bed said it was 9:09pm..I was like wow, so really its 10:09pm here because its 9:09pm at home...but then I pull my ipad out to read and it says its 8:09pm..which means that the iphone is right - and its literally 9:09pm and we have ALL been in bed for 45 minutes and because I'm writing the blog I'm the last one awake at 9:09pm..that's SO bad..but so good at the same time...
We headed back over to the other side of the reserve, which was a forest and up an observation tower for a great view of the north coast.
That was a quick outing - Leanne said "this is my kind of activity Dana, in, out and back to the house!" I think all told we were gone from the house for about 90 minutes!
When we got back I was so hot - I had been sitting in the back back seat of the 8 passenger APV, and this is no Ford Explorer where you walk through two buckets to get to the back row, oh no, you climb over, butt in the air into the back seat. I climbed over and said to Dwayne "Like a cheetah". I'm not even sure what that means, I was just VERY impressed with myself that I didn't do a face plant, put a foot in anyone's face or get stuck half way over. Back to me being hot...So I got on my swimsuit when we got back, only both my pairs of bottoms were out on the pool deck, so instead I doubled up on underwear and wore them out to the pool. Oh my goodness, to the girls you would think that I was crazy! They told everyone that I was wearing my underwear in the pool in a hushed voice..like telling it quietly is not revealing a secret..so like their Dad. I couldn't have cared less that I was wearing underwear, but they thought it was hilarious!
Julia came out to the pool to chat with us about tomorrow's brunch. We already figured we had to go to the store, yet again, to get bread, eggs and bacon for brunch, and she confirmed it. We asked her to sit down with us at the patio and Jay went in the house and got her drink and ice for her. She sat and chatted with us for about half an hour and just relaxed, it was really nice.
Julia used the rest of the Mahi Mahi that we had from the other night and made fish tacos for dinner tonight. So we finally got to use the taco sauce that I bought by accident for a purpose! We're lucky that I'm staying for another week, because we have a lot of leftover food to use up that I can take with me to the next house. We're actually hoping that I can get access to the next house early in the day on Sunday so that we can check out of this house and go straight to that house for the day and use that pool so that we don't have to try to kill 4 hours with packed cars before I drop everyone to the airport and pick up Mom and Maria.
I'm just finishing up writing in bed, and then I'll add the photos and Jay just said to me "Good job on the tequila today, I'm surprised you're blogging...or sitting up". HAHA, I can hold my tequila - especially after 6 straight days of it! We tried, and by we I mean me and Trev, to switch to rum at one point. But rum goes with lemons and then Trev needed antacid. Limes, no problem but lemons are a no go - so he said with a flourish of his hand "I will drink tequila - - let them drink Rum!" (Them being us when we run out of tequila!)
**I just had to re-open my laptop and add this. I closed my computer and turned my phone to airplane mode for the night. Neither my phone or my ipad automatically changed the time zone, which is one hour ahead from home. So I switched one of them at one point because I had to set an alarm. My phone as I set it to airplane mode for bed said it was 9:09pm..I was like wow, so really its 10:09pm here because its 9:09pm at home...but then I pull my ipad out to read and it says its 8:09pm..which means that the iphone is right - and its literally 9:09pm and we have ALL been in bed for 45 minutes and because I'm writing the blog I'm the last one awake at 9:09pm..that's SO bad..but so good at the same time...
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