Cruising the Bahamas

I have such a sweet and loving husband!!!! He booked a 4 night Bahama cruise at the very last minute and swept me off to paradise... with NO KIDS!!!! We started in Miami for a couple of days and loved the beaches and people watching in South Beach.

South Beach was beautiful, sharks and all. We were hanging out on this beach and some people came running down the beach yelling "SHARK SHARK GET OUT OF THE WATER!" People were scurring out of the water so fast! And minutes later a big old shark, fin and all came swimming right by the shore. It was CRAZY!!! and a little exciting. Minutes later everyone was back in the water swimming and playing. That was CRAZY!!!


View of Miami from the ship as we were leaving the port.



Praticing my golf swing on the ship. It is amazing the things you can do on those big ships!

Loving the amazing soft, white sands and crystal blue waters of Grand Bahama. The dark clouds loomed around all day and it never rained. This was an amazing beach!!!

I love shopping in all the nic-nac souvenir shops and talking with all the locals.

Waiting for a taxi back to the ship.

Watching the Lakers/Cletics game on the ship.

Having a blast at the dance party poolside on deck 11.

Charles with his Israeli girlfriends that we became friends with on the cruise.

Great Stirup Cay had fantastic snorkeling in super clear water out by the big rocks behind us. What a day!

Enjoying our last night on the cruise. Thank you sweet Charles for an amazing trip!!! I LOVE YOU!!!

the Butterfly release

For Josie's birthday in January she got a kit for growing butterflies. So we waited until it was warm enough to release the butterflies and sent off for our larve. They came in the mail in two little jars with gross peanut butter looking stuff on the bottom. They feed on that and grew into big, fat caterpillars at a really alarming rate. And before we knew it there were crysalides on the lid of the jar. Josie would run every morning to check to see if the butterflies had come out yet, and lo and behold one morning there was one butterfly out and by the next day all 8 were fluttering around. So next was the big release. We were all so excited!!!

Josie took great care of her butterflies, feeding them orange slices and sugar water everyday.

She made sure they had plenty of flowers to fly onto.

The big moment.... opening the top of there home.

It took them a few minutes to realize that they could fly out.




Josie couldn't wait until the next one would fly out and then she would follow it around the yard to see where it landed.

Most of them went right to the flowers and started eating. This was such a fun little project for the whole family. We can't wait to do it again next year!