Come Sail Away, Come Sail Away, Come Sail Away with meeeeeeee

Over a week ago now, we sailed on the sailboat New Horizons on one of their day long snorkel tours. It started out at 9am and we got back at 4pm. They served us many many watered down drinks (as they always do on these things) and a decent lunch. We sailed to Honeymooners Beach on St Johns Island and to a private beach on Little St. James for our snorkeling pleasure. We saw tons of fish, coral, sting rays, and even a sea turtle or two. We attempted to get Katie in the water to snorkel, but at the words "sting ray", she was back on the boat. She's not a fan of them. I can't blame her, some of them were probably bigger than she is. LOL So anyway, we had a good time, got way, way too much sun (it was the only day any of us got burnt), and made a good memory. I wish I had picture of the full sailboat, but trying to carry your 16 month old son, camera and personal affects kinda makes you forget about somethings.

Coral World

Across the bay from where we were staying in St Thomas was Coral World. Katie loved it, of course. All the fish, coral, sea turtles, lorikeets(birds)and other sea creatures that she could enjoy. So enjoy just a few pictures of what we saw there.



The view from Coral World

The views from above

These pics are from the plane trip to St Thomas and the views from our hotel room.

Magens Bay

We had a very very nice late afternoon evening at Magens Bay last week. And as I sit here with my sick little girl and feeling ill myself, I dream of the sand beneath my feet, the waves splashing, and the sun shining.

Stealing Iguanas

It's crazy how many iguanas there are on the island of St Thomas. They apparently love to hang about the pool and hot tubs. Oh and they LOVE oranges. And they like to attempt to steal said oranges off of your drinks. Oh yeah, if you're ever there, don't wear red nail polish. Unless you like to be nibbled my iguanas now and then. It's up to you, I guess.

My wake up call

This is what woke me up this morning.

More pics just because....

....and now forward....

to today. My goal, since I did not put Katie in preschool this year, is to try and do as much stuff with her at home as possible. So I have a whole bunch of books to practice writing letters, numbers, counting, learning to read, science experiments, learning about animals, and arts and crafts. This morning she chose to work on numbers and wanted to do a science experiment. I let her pick the science experiment and she chose blue goo. Of course she chose the messiest one. LOL Blue goo is simply cornstarch, water, and food coloring. We also worked on the number zero. Writing the number, understanding what zero means and writing the word zero out. She had it down pretty quickly. I was impressed. So here are the pics from this morning. Because what kind of mom with a camera (MWAC) would I be if I didn't have my camera ready at every possibly moment.

Let's go back......

back to Stone Mountain. I've posted a couple of pics from our walk up the mountain. I think the most fun for the kids, was being able to play in the puddles on the top. So here are the pics from that day. I figure if I don't post them, they'll sit in a folder on our server and may never get seen by anyone other than me. So enjoy. :)


Oh, yeah, we saw a fox on top of the mountain. Random.










Cousin Rick




Cousin Carlos visiting from Chile.


Check out ma belly!

That's right, I said MA BELLY!"


"Mom, I'm done!"