Month: June 2003

Vacation Day 5, Friday

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I did nothing today. And I mean nothing. I loved every minute of it. My family went to a cave tour. Mike went for a round of golf on the expensive course. I just lied by the pool. It rocked. I got some reading in. I don’t read novels that much anymore. I was happy to get a book in. Turns out my mom freaked out about my dad’s driving while on the cave trip. My dad’s driving plus the british style driving and the getting lost I guess drove her crazy. I am glad I decided to just stay by the pool. I got a bit of color, but not much. I don’t like to burn.

We had dinner at the house. I had steaks. they were good. This is what vacation is about, going somewhere you have never been to just kick back and do anything you want, or nothing!!!

Vacation Day 4, Thursday

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Some light shopping, mainly for food and stupid stuff. We went to the beach today. it was like a 5 minute drive from the house. The house we rented had privileges at the sandy lane hotel. The hotel was awesome, and we had a cabana at the beach. The water was so nice. We hung out for a while. My dad sat in the shade with morgan while she slept. My sister, mom, and I went into the ocean, actually Caribbean see if we want to be specific.

We went out for dinner for my dad’s birthday. he turned 60 today. The restaurant was awesome. it sat right on the beach and it got clear and you could see out onto the horizon. The food was decent, nothing awesome, but I had a good time.

I thought I was getting another Migraine today before dinner, so I took another bextra. Not sure if I was being a baby about the head aches or if I was actually getting one. The heat does nasty things to my head.

Vacation Day 3, Wednesday

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Today Mike and I went and played a round of golf. I have never played and he didn’t want to go by himself. I thought it would be fun so I went. The course was empty since we went late in the day. We had to travel half way across the island for this course. The course turned out to have sucked (according to mike). We had a bad golf card so we had to go get help between the 10th & 11th greens. Mike was pissed that we didnt get anything for free out of that. I had a good time. It was my first golf outing and I did ok. I cant drive for my life but once on the fareway I did a little worse than ok. I probibly will try it again sometime. This course was expencive. It was cheap compaired to the course by the house we rented, but it was still $100 a round. With clubs the one by our house was like $160 and that was a special deal. Golf in barbados is not for the cheap!

My only problem with golf is that I can’t see the green’s from most tee’s and I also have trouble finding the ball. Thanks mike was my lookout.

Unfortunatly I was fighting a head ache the whole game. Thankfully the meds worked for the game, but I started crashing on the ride home. I made it to the house just in time to lie down and sleep from like 7pm to the next morning. I ended up taking 2 Bextra throughout the day. At least this migrane didn’t stop me from having a good day of golf.

Vacation Day 2, Tuesday

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The house is awsome. My sister out did herself on this vacation. I don’t know if she did this by luck or if she planned it, but we are in a huge house facing the ocean. it sits on a golf course in (supposedly) most exclusive part of Barbados. We even have our own maid and cook. The food is awsome too. We lounged around today. It was hot, go figure! We lied by the pool and just played it lazy. I like doing that on vacation, doing nothing.

Vacation day 1, Continued…

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The airport experience was ok. No problems. The van took us to the house with no problems.

Mike and I took our cook and made (only get them on vacation, we don’t get to bring them home) to their bus after dinner. We ended up at some dive barish type place that had slots and video poker. Since mike wanted to gamble I fronted him $20. that is $40 barbadian dollars. I took 20 and went to the video poker machine. I was loosing nicely when mike and I switched machines, he took poker and I took the slots. I my first pull I put like 5 quarters in and won. I got like $50 barbadian or $25 US. As I always learned from my dad I proceeded to stop betting after the big win. All in all it was a good day.

Vacation, Day 1 Monday

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So far so good. The ussual excitement, but everything is ok so far. We got to the airport and got through security without a major problem. You move very slow when you have a baby. Also some of the people I am traveling with are not the fastest people (dad, mom, & carrie). The excitement for the day so far is that my dad forgot his insulin for the trip. How a diabetic forgets that I will not know. He will get some when we get there, or that is the plan.

I am writting this from the plane. Lunch was actually not bad. I had some chicken. I just watched Mission Impossible on DVD, and have about 30% battery life left on the laptop so I decided to get some blogging in.

The weather report says it will probibly rain at least part of the day every day I am on vacation. I am not worried yet since islands like barbados ussually rain for a bit and then are nice out. I will have to see when I get there.

Morgan has been very good so far. She slept for most of the trip. I just got a screaming baby sitting a few rows in front of me. Hopefully they quiet down soon. The plane is pretty empty. We got switched from a 757 to 767 a few weeks ago. Had some issues with seats because of the change. Everything worked out though. Since we moved to the bigger plane it is pretty empty. I am in front so I still have someone sitting next to me. It is not bad. I have had worse trips. I hope that does not jinx me! I will let you know how it turns out later.

Last entry before vacation, probibly

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This will be my last entry before I go on my vacation. I think I have everything covered. The car for the airport is called. I am sort of packed. My mail is being taken care of. I left money out for the cleaning person! Hmmm, I know I forgot something. I always do. Lets just hope it is something small. I emailed Keith and Gus with last minute things that I thought might need to be taken care of this week while I am away. What else is there.

I have some books packed to read. I probably wont read them. I downloaded a bunch of documents to work on from work. I probably wont do any of it. I packed like 10 DVD’s and I am thinking that isn’t enough, but I probably will watch maybe 3 of them.

I also packed the digital camera (fully charged). Hopefully I will take some pictures. Not sure if I will. As you can tell I have high hopes on vacations and usually end up being very lazy.

My flight is in the morning so I have to get up early. I am going to bed soon. I keep thinking about what I may have forgotten to pack. Birthday cards for my dad and mike are packed. Got shirts, socks, underwear, etc. Got the migraine meds. Just packed extra, just in case.

Never got that calling card to make international calls on. Oh well. I will see if I can get a pre paid card at the airport tomorrow. I got rid of my card years ago when I went totally on cellular. When I was at datastream they gave me a card. I haven’t needed one since:(

I will be writting this blog while I am away, but will post date the posts when I get back. My hand is cramping so I will stop now. I hope it gets better over vacation. See ya!

NOTE, HAD TO TAKE A BEXTRA YESTERDAY. Thought I was getting a migraine due to the lack of eating lunch and the trip to my cousins.