Trinidad & DDI

Tickets are so cheap to Trinidad right now and a friend asked us if we wanted to go for a long weekend with our families. We've never been but have always wanted to go since a lot of our friends are from there as well. So we booked tickets and off we went on our first family vacation with another family. SO.MUCH.FUN! Besides the 2 yr olds hashing it out 10 times a day, they really enjoyed their time together and so did the adults! DDI stands for Down De Islands, that's where we stayed, at our friends family house. We had to fly in, drive to the yacht club and get our boat loaded to head over. It's a quick 5 min ride so it was really nice to just be on the outside of Trinidad looking back. It was also really nice to pop over and get breakfast and coffee in the morning. We enjoyed every sunset, lots of downtime to enjoy the view, island toured to a beach far far away haha, watched dolphins swim through the bay during sunset, made some awesome food and drove the boat around to other islands to swim in new spots! Definitely will be going back!

Back to School

Gem started back at the Montessori school she was in since January this year. We love the teachers and all the kids in the class so it was a no brainer to send her back. We are so excited since this is her last year with this little class, next September they all move to "BIG" school together!

September 13, 2016

Quick Summer Trip to Orlando

Gem doesn't have school till mid September so we decided to take a quick last minute summer trip up to Orlando. We did our usually Seaworld, Target, Chickfila, which are always our favorite things to do when we go up. We did Seaworld twice this trip and Daddy finally got to come! We've been going to Seaworld for a year with our pass and this was Darin's first time getting to see how excited Gem gets when she goes. She absolutely LOVES it!! We had a bit of downtime this trip so it was nice to spend time at home with our families and not be out and about everyday, just almost everyday :) We also got to see Great Grandma a bunch and boy does Gem love her GG!\

Mom, Shelb & Laura Visit

When we were sailing, Laura was here in Barbados watching Gem. I knew Shelby was going to be here when I got back from sailing but I didn't know "Glamma" (mom T) would be here too! She pulled off a great surprise! We did a few fun island adventure things like island touring, a catamaran cruise, a kadooment fete, swam a wreck and saw some turtles! I also learned how to play Hearts! Their trip was too short as always :( Here's some pics from their fun week in Barbados!

Sailing the Grenadines

This summer has proven to be an eventful one. The beginning of July we got to check something off the ol bucket list, sailing the Grenadines! We went with our friends Alan & Jenny, rented a catamaran for a week and left from St. Vincent, hitting up island after island, staying the night and a day in each place. The islands are so different in water color (mostly blue), civilization, resort only or anyone can visit. We had a BLAST, watched some beautiful sunsets, swam in the clearest waters with turtles, ate some fabulous food and learned how next time we'll do a power catamaran, screw the actual sailing lol.