Day 83

Not sure who's fault this is .. both are denying that either of them did it. And no, it's not a washable marker.

Day 81 - March 23

I had my final level 2 Wilton cake decorating class last night. For the last 3 weeks (well, 2 for me) we have been making flowers out of royal icing to place on our final cake.
We learnt how to do the basket weave, while it's kinda (but not really) neat I don't think I'll have much use for it...
The cake reminds me of something I'd be making for my grandma

Day 80

Benjamin got hold of a drawing that Nathan did with a black marker, it comes off well when sucked on.

Day 71 - 79 - Cruise Week

March 13- 21

Errol and I headed down to Miami on March 13 so we could board the Carnival Valor for a 7 night cruise. It was work related, and some work did happen but not as much as we had fun.

Here we are flying into Miami

March 14 - we left Miami this afternoon and boarded this cruise

March 15 - was a day at sea .. so we just spent time in the sun, eating and playing in the casino

March 16 - Grand Cayman

We went on an excursion, it involved a visit to Hell, a turtle farm, rum cake factory and then some swimming with the Stingrays (and I forgot my bathing suit and waterproof camera)

Hell - there are these interesting rock formations, made of coral and limestone

Turtle Farm - we got to hold some baby turtles

We then went to Jimmy Buffets Margaritaville, where I had the best margarita ever!

March 17 - Isle Roatan, Honduras

It was so hot and humid today, it was a bit much for me. We visited a park where we were told some history with pirates, went through a bird sanctuary, and went into monkey land (or so we thought)

We got into a bit of trouble on the way back, it was raining - really heavy, and the cars and some buses were having troubles getting up the hill (you'd think they'd have better tires there as they get on average 3 days of rain a week) A bus had slid off the road and tipped over (not something us tourists really needed to see) it took a while, but we made it up the hill and back on the ship safe and sound

Happy St.Patrick's Day

March 18 - Belize

Today we went hiking, crawling and zip lining  through caves and the rain forest. It was an adventure.

March 19 - Cozumel

Nothing exciting happened today, we took it easy and just walked around.

March 20 - day at sea

another day to eat, drink and play in the casino

The galley

March 21 - back in Miami

We had all day to spend in Miami, so we went on an excursion up to the Everglades. Here we went on one of those air boats and we cruised around looking for alligators and crocs.

Day 70

The Grandparents have arrived to take care of the boys while Errol and I head out on the cruise

(Nathan thought it was funny that he was wearing his Grandma's sweater)

Day 68 - Homesick

Nathan came home with this letter today .. my little guy is homesick :(

Day 65 - March 7

We had some friends over for dinner tonight. On the menu was - Prime Rib, Yorksire Pudding (yum), Roasted Carrots and Mashed Potato's ...

Day 64 - Snoozing

I guess the lunch I made him wasn't all that exciting, or maybe it could be that he was up at 5:30 and he couldn't last until nap time.

Day 63 - It's Chunkers again

Not sure when, or if, we'll ever stop calling him Chunkers/Chunks.

Day 62 - March 3 - Spray Tanning and your feet

We are leaving next week on a Western Caribbean Cruise, I am beyond pasty white so I decided that I would try spray tanning, so I went last night to try it out. If the results are okay then I am going to do it again the day before we leave.

I was given a lot of instructions - put on a shower cap, but make sure it doesn't rest on your forehead or you'll have a funny line, but a bit of cream on the dry areas of your body, don't forget to put lots on your fingernails and toenails as the cuticles will get really dark if you don't, get your knees, elbows, and ankles .. but nothing was mentioned about the bottom of my feet (please ignore my horrible heals - the pedicure is next week)

Day 61 - Final cake class

We had our final cake class of the Wilton level 1 tonight .. The cake isn't great, but it surely beats out my previous 2 disasters.

I messed up the top part, and wasn't able to smooth it out properly (icing problems) and I should of smoothed out each dot, but I wasn't about to do that.

Day 60 - March 1 - Quotes

Stephanie, I thought of you when I saw this, so I bought it.   The first quote written in there was courtesy of Nathan - "I can't wait until I grow up so I can be the boss AND pay the bills"

Day 59 - Feb 28

This activity is the latest thing that Benjamin has discovered, and he seems to think it's funny!

Day 58 - Feb 27 - But Crack

the poor kid always has this problem with his pants!