Shopping again...

More dodgy weather so more Women's World Cup in the morning and then off to the Mall. When we got back Hayley kept watch as...
...Hunter checked out the kayaks and ...

...did some fishing.

We didnt catch anything but there are always interesting things to see. Our dolphins visited again this morning, we have a resident Osprey who eats his catch right off our balcony, we saw a snake bird, there are lots of mullets, manatees and some other things we cannot identify. Planning for an early night tonight, then hoping the weather will work for a trip to Busch Gardens.

Florida Aquarium

The overcast drove us to indoor activities so after watching some World Cup we headed over to the Florida Aquarium.
We had a good time there then had a very late lunch at Cody's Roadhouse. Jared and Elena came by and collected Emily just after 8, I think she and my two will get to sleep really early tonight, they had an absolute blast the past few days. Nice to see Jared too, a fine young man.

Breakfast Treat

Our first dolphins came to visit this morning. They did some jumps and swam around as we ate our breakfast. So excited! Makes the aquarium so much less appealing now.

Adventure Island

The three amigos at Adventure Island!
Make that four!

Hunter on the speed slide, yes the speck at the top left.

Hayley and Emily were last down this slide before they closed the park due to lightening.

My snuggler learning her way around the kitchen...:-)

Orlando

We had two days in Orlando and the vote was Magic Kingdom for the first day. We rode Splash Mountain, Thunder Mountain, Space Mountain; probably not the smartest thing for me to do while suffering with the flu!
It was a magical day until the thunderstorms moved in late afternoon.

We rode alot of rides and saw some parades,

then it was time for dinner. Don't let that look fool you... he ate all his snow crab and most of mine!

Now in our "home away from home" in Tampa, Emily has just arrived and we are off on more adventures!

Weekend in North Side

We spent the weekend up at the North Side house getting it back in shape.
New BBQ grill... tested it out and it works just fine. Greg and Nana stopped by for dinner so we had a great visit with them.

They both came back for breakfast to try a special coffee Greg brought from Thailand, Kopi Luwak, the most expensive coffee in the World. The coffee plants are from the 1830's and the beans are eaten by cats whose excrement is then collected to retrieve the beans. SO... basically we drank cat poop coffee...

3 Day Weekend

We spent much of Saturday doing things at the North Side house but Sunday it was off to Rum Point again. Lots of nice people and lots of ripe mangoes!
Uncle Randy took the kids out for some tubing.

Then Monday we did it all over again (after some more work at the North Side house in the morning). We took Max to North Side but that's a whole other story...

The House

Our tenants are moving out so we went to say goodbye and take a dip in the pool. Also went by the mango farm for the first pick of the season!

Tomorrow their numbers will have been greatly reduced...:-)

10 Days In Little Cayman

So, the weekend involved a lot of watersports.
But we also attended the Easter Auction.

We did a fair amount of fishing.

And we didn't do too bad!

We did some biking.

Some kayaking.

Some tubing.

We greatly appreciated the extra holiday for the royal wedding.

Even got in some Little Cayman nightlife! Great trip.

Just a week away...

Hayley made these yummy cupcakes for her class!

Last Sunday at Granny's.

Long weekend (sort of) part 2

Twas a beautiful day at Rum Point.

Long weekend (sort of)

Hunter had inter-primary track meet on Friday, he did quite well in the 100 and 200m, high jump and shotput. There was no school on Friday so Hayley invited her friends to the Turtle Farm. This is Chloe in the aviary.

Hayley and Chloe.

All the girls holding a sea turtle.

Aunty Jill chaperoned.

Granny's X 2

After getting lots of chores done around the house we took a break and went to Granny's.
Hayley and friend Beatrice did some kayaking.

Sunday and back at Granny's again, this time with lots of food and beverages! Sharon, Granny, Tony, Darvin, Me, Shirley, Lisa, Grandma and Uncle Roy as the cooking was in high gear; conch fritters, fried Mahi and Wahoo, Festival, Fried conch... we never even got to the shrimp, fruit salad and Rum Cake. There's always tomorrow.

Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday is a holiday and also Agricultural Show day. Everybody loved the breeze up in the hut.
Met up with Chloe; she, Hayley and Hunter inspected the cows, pigs, chickens and goats.

Also Katherine and a friendly rabbit.

Then we got conchs and headed to Rum Point, it was a nice day.

Hunter and me...

Hayley and me...

The 3 Roulstone children and friends! What a beautiful Wednesday!