The video has a bunch of little clips of our life in Freeport. In one part, Darin explains to my mom about me eating raw fish, not sure if you'll really hear what he says. Another part, Sania sings happy birthday in indonesian to Darin. This is the first of more to come, hope you enjoy it! Have a great week!!
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Short & Sweet
This past week has mainly been focused on getting the pawn shop open. We've had people in and out working on stuff, computers came so Darin has been setting that up, i've been painting a lot, cleaning stuff, and hopefully we'll be open by Monday, Aug 16th. I can't wait for the store to open, I think i'm as excited as Darin is to finally get this thing going.
I also got all the wedding pictures back and have them downloaded to my computer to have forever!! I'm so glad they finally came! Now I can do all of my thank you's when I go home in a month, and print some out to put in frames for our home. I'm looking forward to coming home for a little bit. Going to a friends wedding, a 1st birthday, and a family BBQ with margaritas! I've been working on a video blog, it's coming along great! I think you'll love it! I just have to do a little more to it, and i'll be posting it very soon! Sorry this blog is short....the week flew by so fast I don't even remember it.
I also got all the wedding pictures back and have them downloaded to my computer to have forever!! I'm so glad they finally came! Now I can do all of my thank you's when I go home in a month, and print some out to put in frames for our home. I'm looking forward to coming home for a little bit. Going to a friends wedding, a 1st birthday, and a family BBQ with margaritas! I've been working on a video blog, it's coming along great! I think you'll love it! I just have to do a little more to it, and i'll be posting it very soon! Sorry this blog is short....the week flew by so fast I don't even remember it.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Birthday & Boating
To add to the last post, the Little Tings:
1. We've been telling some people we're opening a pawn shop. At the sushi place we go to, the waiter asked what we did here, so Darin told him that he's opening a pawn shop probably in a week or so. His face, and the other 3 guys faces that turned around and looked surprised at us, threw us off. What the heck did we say?? The waiter says, "a porn shop?" we say "no no, a pawn shop, p-a-w-n"....OHHhhhh lol and everyone starts laughing. I guess with our accents being different, how they say porn it sounds like pawn, so when we say pawn it sounds like porn.
2. We're learning about holidays here, and the recent one was yesterday, Monday. I heard on the radio it was a holiday weekend. When there's a holiday here, they take the following Monday off so it's always a 3 day weekend. I asked a guy in the shop that was helping us what the holiday was. He told me "August Monday". Ok, so whats the holiday for? He says "August Monday". So apparently it's just because it's a Monday in August. I asked Darin joking if we had an "October Wednesday or a September Tuesday" here also :) Bahamians (as I shake my head)
3. Honking your car at people is generally a good thing, 1 short honk is like telling them to go ahead and go first, the they honk back 2 short honks which means thank you, for letting me go ahead. The only time honking is bad is just like the states, one loooooonnnngggg honk!
Darin's birthday was July 30th, he turned 26!! I made a fantastic rasberry yogurt cake (recipe at the bottom) and of course we went to eat sushi, and out after. Sunday was the first day of lobster season!! We made plans to go out with Tony and his friend Dan to go snorkel, look for lobster, or anything else we could find. We went east down the coast about a mile or so, the beaches are so pretty on that end, it was so nice! The sun was out so we could see really good when snorkeling. Darin and Tony got in first, 10mins later I get in and Tony called me over to look at something, a Sea 
Ray swam below us. OMG I about freaked out!! All I thought about was Steve Irwin! I held as still as I could while freaking out inside, and watched this huge creature just gracefully swim by, it's like slow motion how it swims, but moves pretty fast. Glad that's over, so I turn around to follow Tony and he points out a barracuda! Um yea, i'm getting out of here right now! Well....the boats a little further than I thought, so I just stayed by Tony and when I got to the boat, I just held on to the rope in the water and dragged behind as Dan drove. I felt safer hanging on being dragged than just swimming on my own. Most of the time i'm fine, but the sea ray and barracuda freaked me out for the day. It started raining and Tony was driving so Dan could get in the water, me Darin and Dan were all dragging behind the boat when I felt Dan and Darin let go, so I just held on and Tony starts yelling for me to let go, and he'll be back to get me....i'm like what!? Leave me? He looked kinda panicked and all I can hear is something about bleeding so I let go of the rope. Tony speeds back to Darin and Dan as I frantically start swimming as fast as I could towards the boat, I wasn't waiting for a shark today. Dan speared a Hog Fish, and that's what was bleeding. You can't let a fish bleed for long or a shark will be coming by. Tony looked at me and said "I was gonna come back and get you". I told him I was scared alone that far away so I had to swim back....I got on the boat, done with this day, and the things that were in the water. Now it's raining and I had no towel, and it's freezing! I get Tony's shirt on and the boys get in and we go about a mile out past the rain to wait it out. While driving out, these birds were going right along with us, and one of them mid flight shook like dog when it's wet, I found it kinda funny, never saw a bird do that before while flying. So we have this HUGE hog fish, and we haven't eaten lunch yet. The storm passes and we head to a little place on the beach called Banana Bay, it's a restaurant. It's looks so run down that last time we passed it I thought it was vacant. Some of the roof is missing, no people, the big drapes 
outside were all ripped and some missing, I mean really, a crappy looking place. We pull up to it, and there's some people here, we ask the cooks if they'll clean and cook the hog fish we just caught. We have a seat outside and a little while later we all got a plate of hog fish, coleslaw and french fries! Fantastic!!! With no lobster and a really long day behind us, we headed home. Minus the rain, cold, and creatures, it was a great day, and Darin loved being able to get in the water for his birthday.
*The picture on the side of the boat says "on eagles wings".....I thought of grandpa, love you.
Yogurt Cake....recipe by Jen Fox
1 box white cake mix
3/4 c. water
1/3 c. veg. oil
3 egg whites
2 yogurts of choice
1 cool whip
Mix first 4 ingredients, add 1st yogurt, pour into 9x13 greased pan, back @ 350 for 30mins, let cool completely, mix 2nd yogurt and cool whip, spread over cake, refrigerate until served.
1. We've been telling some people we're opening a pawn shop. At the sushi place we go to, the waiter asked what we did here, so Darin told him that he's opening a pawn shop probably in a week or so. His face, and the other 3 guys faces that turned around and looked surprised at us, threw us off. What the heck did we say?? The waiter says, "a porn shop?" we say "no no, a pawn shop, p-a-w-n"....OHHhhhh lol and everyone starts laughing. I guess with our accents being different, how they say porn it sounds like pawn, so when we say pawn it sounds like porn.
2. We're learning about holidays here, and the recent one was yesterday, Monday. I heard on the radio it was a holiday weekend. When there's a holiday here, they take the following Monday off so it's always a 3 day weekend. I asked a guy in the shop that was helping us what the holiday was. He told me "August Monday". Ok, so whats the holiday for? He says "August Monday". So apparently it's just because it's a Monday in August. I asked Darin joking if we had an "October Wednesday or a September Tuesday" here also :) Bahamians (as I shake my head)
3. Honking your car at people is generally a good thing, 1 short honk is like telling them to go ahead and go first, the they honk back 2 short honks which means thank you, for letting me go ahead. The only time honking is bad is just like the states, one loooooonnnngggg honk!
Darin's birthday was July 30th, he turned 26!! I made a fantastic rasberry yogurt cake (recipe at the bottom) and of course we went to eat sushi, and out after. Sunday was the first day of lobster season!! We made plans to go out with Tony and his friend Dan to go snorkel, look for lobster, or anything else we could find. We went east down the coast about a mile or so, the beaches are so pretty on that end, it was so nice! The sun was out so we could see really good when snorkeling. Darin and Tony got in first, 10mins later I get in and Tony called me over to look at something, a Sea 
Ray swam below us. OMG I about freaked out!! All I thought about was Steve Irwin! I held as still as I could while freaking out inside, and watched this huge creature just gracefully swim by, it's like slow motion how it swims, but moves pretty fast. Glad that's over, so I turn around to follow Tony and he points out a barracuda! Um yea, i'm getting out of here right now! Well....the boats a little further than I thought, so I just stayed by Tony and when I got to the boat, I just held on to the rope in the water and dragged behind as Dan drove. I felt safer hanging on being dragged than just swimming on my own. Most of the time i'm fine, but the sea ray and barracuda freaked me out for the day. It started raining and Tony was driving so Dan could get in the water, me Darin and Dan were all dragging behind the boat when I felt Dan and Darin let go, so I just held on and Tony starts yelling for me to let go, and he'll be back to get me....i'm like what!? Leave me? He looked kinda panicked and all I can hear is something about bleeding so I let go of the rope. Tony speeds back to Darin and Dan as I frantically start swimming as fast as I could towards the boat, I wasn't waiting for a shark today. Dan speared a Hog Fish, and that's what was bleeding. You can't let a fish bleed for long or a shark will be coming by. Tony looked at me and said "I was gonna come back and get you". I told him I was scared alone that far away so I had to swim back....I got on the boat, done with this day, and the things that were in the water. Now it's raining and I had no towel, and it's freezing! I get Tony's shirt on and the boys get in and we go about a mile out past the rain to wait it out. While driving out, these birds were going right along with us, and one of them mid flight shook like dog when it's wet, I found it kinda funny, never saw a bird do that before while flying. So we have this HUGE hog fish, and we haven't eaten lunch yet. The storm passes and we head to a little place on the beach called Banana Bay, it's a restaurant. It's looks so run down that last time we passed it I thought it was vacant. Some of the roof is missing, no people, the big drapes 
outside were all ripped and some missing, I mean really, a crappy looking place. We pull up to it, and there's some people here, we ask the cooks if they'll clean and cook the hog fish we just caught. We have a seat outside and a little while later we all got a plate of hog fish, coleslaw and french fries! Fantastic!!! With no lobster and a really long day behind us, we headed home. Minus the rain, cold, and creatures, it was a great day, and Darin loved being able to get in the water for his birthday. *The picture on the side of the boat says "on eagles wings".....I thought of grandpa, love you.
Yogurt Cake....recipe by Jen Fox
1 box white cake mix
3/4 c. water
1/3 c. veg. oil
3 egg whites
2 yogurts of choice
1 cool whip
Mix first 4 ingredients, add 1st yogurt, pour into 9x13 greased pan, back @ 350 for 30mins, let cool completely, mix 2nd yogurt and cool whip, spread over cake, refrigerate until served.
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