Friday, March 27, 2009

come to Antigua, mon...

a week's vacation (sans bebe) in the Caribbean - life's tough :)

Beej, Grandma, Papa & Irene had lots of fun at home - I hope - send pictures Grandma and I'll post them!
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Mark got a new camera for his birthday and I thought I would post some of his Antiguan art:





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And here are some samples of Katie's Antiguan photography:



And since the camera is new (and Nycki wasn't there to take all of the pictures) we had some fun / interesting moments with the timer!

Lots to do in Antigua including kicking Mark's bum at two-handed euchre (but lets not talk about how I faired at Yahtzee.... yikes!)

And we did a whole lot of nothing most of the time...

Drunk at the piano bar - asking the piano man (who looked exactly like James Earl Jones) if he could play some Christmas songs

We played a lot of tennis too... Mark was able to showcase his awful white tennis shoes

Romantic dinner on the beach with our own personal waiter

And this is the friendly beach dog who joined us for our romantic dinner and whom I ended up giving half of my steak to (and yes mom I fed the dog from the table... he didn't smell as bad as Noodles)

We spent an afternoon snorkeling - and have decided that I really am not a big fan of fish, whether it is eating them or swimming with them. It's a good thing that I swam competitively as I needed to draw on those skills to escape the school of fish that were chasing me!!

On our last full day, we spent 8 hours on a catamaran touring the entire island

The Captain really liked Mark and let him take the wheel for the ride home

Surprisingly the Captain did not let me drive (perhaps it was the 4 Caribs that I had that afternoon... as evidence by the empty bottle in the picture)

Perfect ending to a wonderful vacation!

Thanks mom and John for watching the little man!!!

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