Diamond Waterfall

Day 5
 

I woke up at 6am this morning and did a little of the blog in bed before saying to Jay “I’m going to go up and be social”. He turned over and looked at his iPad and said “it’s 7am”. Yeah. “Why do you have to be social at 7am?”  Because I’m usually social at 6am, social writing my blog on the phone and then social reading my book. Lol. 

First thing when I got up Ty told me I missed my chocolate covered almond, which was served sometime after 7pm last night. Lol. And said he saved it for me in the freezer. 

It does look like a turd.

Jackson caught a small frog inside this morning. 

The boys all being social together.






 

Anthony asked me if I would come back here. To St Lucia, maybe if we see what Rodney Bay and Castries are like, but this area I think we have exhausted a lot of the activities here and the town of Soufriere isn’t worth coming to again and because it’s hard to get to (down the long, steep road to town) and then the restaurants aren’t open or super expensive or look sketchy, which explains why the house is staffed. The consensus is that we are all enjoying it here but no one would come back here. The beaches are also an issue that you have to rent chairs, like in Barbados but more expensive, and so far weren’t a good entry for the kids.

Finally finished the blog, there were so many photos it took forever!

Julia texted Steve this morning to say she missed him and he texted back “you only miss me because of the bats and cockroaches”. Then later sent a photo of porcupine quills he had pulled from Ozzy’s side after a walk. 

Sarah came over and asked Juls if the pizza got sorted out. Kobe had called Julia to get her to order pizza for him and have it delivered to the house (because he doesn’t have a credit card). So she did but when it was delivered Kobe and his buddies were in the basement and didn’t hear the knocking so the delivery guy called Juls but she missed the calls. So, yes, finally the pizza got sorted out - all the way from St Lucia. 

Sarah A laid down and asked what was up in the corner. I thought it was a piece of roofing or plastic but then it started moving and squeaking. It was a bat, and it had wedged its wing in the roof seam and was stuck. 

All the kids decided to watch Jay try to rescue it with a broom from the safety of the loft. 

Ellie shouted to Sarah “where are the chefs!?” It’s 8:57am, her stomach must have told her it was breakfast time!

The staff arrived shortly after 9am and started cooking bacon, eggs, pancakes and toast. The dishwasher doesn’t work, but Margaret and Georgiana said they would do the dishes from the night before.   Breakfast is typically ready around 10am. 

We eat lunch (today is tacos) at 2pm and then dinner when we’re hungry (tonight is Roti!  4 people independently asked if we could have roti so they bought roti in town and left it for us for dinner). 

Anthony lost his sunglasses yesterday by the pool so told the kids whoever found them could have $5USD. After an exhaustive search Ty finally put on goggles and checked the pool and found them on the bottom. The kids had looked EVERYWHERE, including down below the house. 

We left the house around 11:30am to go to Diamond Waterfall and botanical gardens. It takes a long time sometimes to get 16 people up and going. 

When we arrived we parked, paid and were met by Alexander a guide who works on tips.  He said they call him Mr Internet, that he has 5000 hits on YouTube. Very impressive. He knew a lot about the flora and spoke in a very aggressive cadence. 

Jackson caught a small lizard, which jumped from his hand onto my back. I was like “of course it did” as he recovered it off my shirt. Later it scurried out of his hand again towards Sarah A who screamed, almost fell and ran away. Lol. 

After Alexander had told us where about 7 trees and flowers originated from Sophie turned to me and mouthed “what. ever.”  She didn’t appreciate the tour. 

I tried to get Avery in the photo touching the flower (which Alexander had told them all to touch) with the sign in the bottom corner. 

Alexander had long, thick fingernails and at one point broke open a nutmeg nut and gave us all a little piece explaining that if rum punch doesn’t have nutmeg in it it’s not rum punch. Everyone casually dropped the nutmeg to the ground as we whispered “don’t eat anything from his hands”. 

After the waterfall the kids can go in the warm mineral baths. 

 From here we decided to go to another waterfall that the kids can go into the pool at the base. It wasn’t a far drive from where we were. The trade off was the water was COLD. 

From here we went home because there wasn’t time to hit the beach before lunch would be ready. So we promised the kids a beach day tomorrow, even if we went early before breakfast. Jay and I stopped for ice on the way home and the Corey’s with Trev and Julia and the girls went grocery shopping only the store closed at 1pm because it’s Sunday. But they stopped at a gas station and variety store and were able to pick up snacks and a few other things. 

I had thought we were out of rum but found another bottle. Yippee!

I came upstairs and said to Ty, who was the only one in the house “Ty, you have to tell your Mom how safe your trip here has been or she won’t let you back”. He said “Oh yeah, now where did I put my fur coat..” “Your fur coat?”  “My. Fruit. Cup.” Oh, lol, that makes more sense. 

Later, in the pool, we had a Mom Handstand Competition and then Sarah thought it would be a good idea to do a somersault contest too. Bad. Idea.

It was a long afternoon in the pool today and when we came up for Roti dinner it was almost 7pm. After eating I looked over at Juls beside me in a nice top and polka dot shorts and said “did iou dress for dinner?”  I was still in my swim suit and towel. Lol. 

After dinner I went to bed, surprise surprise but everyone had a dance party, as Anthony had predicted and as fun as it sounded I went to sleep.