Grand Cayman - family vacation

Yay for vacation, there isn't a better feeling than sand between your toes and a week of doing absolutely nothing. Our first week of August was spent with little tv, no internet but a whole lot of Tootie play time and suntan lotion. The photos are not in the correct order, but you get the point of how the week was spent. Nothing short of a relaxing and well deserved beach retreat.


We had a two bedroom condo that was huge. This was the view from our patio, ahh how I miss this view.

As you can see this crab had little to no reaction from Tootie. Just a prehistoric looking creature that the annoying white haired kid down the beach eventually killed, Sven will learn about karma.



We were fortunate not to run into any hurricanes during our stay which is a definite risk you take in the Caribbean during the summer, but we did get rain one day. The rain didn't stop Tootie, she still wanted to be outside.




The rain evetually ended and we were left with this view.

shopping or drinking...shopping or drinking...which way do I go?

The sign in this photo is VERY important.

How appropriate, Grant and Adelaide on the poop deck.


Yes, that is Russ wiping off Grant's brow. We went to this little restaurant Over the Edge and dined on fried lobster, fresh shrimp and escovitch. If you don't know what escovitch is, Grant can fill you in on the spicy dish. It was so spicy yet fantastically good that Grant couldn't stop eating it. After each bite he would have to wash it down, which resulted in more beer and ended with a 4 hour nap when we returned to the condo.





look, no legs just sand!





Adelaide couldn't stand when someone was on the patio without her, so she would knock on the window until you let her out.

Notice the bulging gut and no shirt...long story short is that the shirt is off because Adelaide wasn't feeling well and the beginning on the trip and pooped all over Grant and the gut, well that's simple...the food was good.




Mommy, I swear I didn't mean to poop on Daddy he was an easy target and aren't you glad that it wasn't you?

hence the reason for the gut

Georgetown - our only trip into tourist land for the week. We have stopped here before while on cruise ships, but I forgot how hectic it becomes when the masses are in town.


"Tootie stop touching the skeleton, shouldn't you be afraid of it anyway?"

Diamonds International, not only a good location to stop in for obvious sparkly reasons, but because it had air conditioning.


They had a park in the condo complex which was fun in the morning but way too hot in the afternoons.


Grant sitting on the edge of the pier.


Don't worry Gramps, that stuff you feel in your scalp is only cookie crumbs.

Isn't he the happy camper?


The restaurant at our condo, not a bad view.



Pretty sure she ate her weight in goldfish that week.


$10 draft beer anyone? Ahh, it's only vacation money, gulp.

They were on fish patrol.



Fish at the end of the bar deck.


This is how we taught A how to say turtle. She had to stop by and see them in the lobby everyday.




Another beautiful vacation, but the story isn't over yet. I hope to soon load the pictures from our day swimming with the stingrays.

Grant had never seen the NY skyline before, so this picture is for him. This was the view from the Newark airport on our way home. Yes, we had to fly through Houston on the way to GC and then Newark on the way home. Thank goodness there weren't any flight delays because there are very few flights on and off of the island.

regularly scheduled program

Sorry for the interruption in the regularly scheduled blog program, we will resume postings this weekend.

My excuses for the delay:
-We went to North Carolina for the Labor Day weekend and chose not to use phones or internet for three days, oh how nice it was.
-Adelaide's Ya-Ya went through Tootie withdrawal during our absence so she bribed us with pizza and came over on a week night for play time.
-Somehow it took 4 hours to get my hair done after work and then they missed a chunk of hair so I have to get grant to cut it, SCARY!
-Oh and I was just lazy on another night and my MTV guilty pleasures: Jersey Shore and Teen Mom were on.

So, Grant is working on Saturday morning which means I will get a lot of catch up blogging done or Adelaide will be all over the place and I will get none of it done.

Another item that would help this process move along...has anyone seen the cord for my little camera? I would love to upload some missing photos.

Old Gets Older

That's right folks, my older sister just got OLDER!!



As some of you may have noticed, I try to point out the fact that my 6 year senior sister is and will always be older than me. I find it fair to point this out for 2 reasons: 1. she has less gray hair than me (but mostly because she finds the time to dye her hair and I don't) and 2. she is smaller than me, both height and weight. In my little world, these are two really good reasons for me to remind all of my readers (all 10 of them) that yes I do have a MUCH OLDER sister. I would like to give you proof of how old she is so I have provided a photo to illustrate. WOW - they didn't even have color photos back then!!!


As a side note, the mentioned sister is probably sitting at home plotting how hard she is going to lay the smack down on me, but no worries she won't send her husband after me because he is even OLDER THAN HER (I couldn't leave out one old family member now could I). Love yah J and T see yah next month by which time I hope that you will have forgotten this post unless I am still laughing!

ps...that is my cousin sitting to J's left, the one in the jacket. I won't point out the fact that she is old too, oooppps.

Happy Birthday Sister - You are beautiful inside and out and we love you!

Johnstown 2010

All that Adelaide needed was some ice cream and a walk along the reservoir bank in order to make her day complete. Next time we are going to check out the old covered bridges, but don't tell Pap John, he says it's too dangerous which is why he wouldn't let us go this year. Our plan is to ask for forgiveness next year after we go to the bridges.










So Adelaide isn't real keen on curling up with strangers, but she loved Pap John. He was on the front porch swing, because it was a cool 90 in the house, and she said "up" and up she went. Notice that as hot as it was she is still carrying around nigh nigh. Typically she isn't allowed to have nigh nigh out of the house, but we had her whole schedule messed up for the weekend so we thought why not.