Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Hello from paradise!  Today was a sad day for me as Natalie and Michael left the island.  It is so hard to be a mother.  Boy do I miss my sweet Natalie!  We had a busy, fun week exploring the island.  They arrived on the last flight in at 5:30 on last Tuesday.  We drove to the house so they could freshen up and then we ate at the Hungry Iguana per their request.  It was such a good meal and we managed to keep the kids awake to eat it.  We went to bed early that night.  Our time together went so fast.  It is hard to believe that was a whole week ago already. 

We got up and had a nice breakfast and started a tour of the island.  This was Michael's first visit and Natalie wanted to show him the whole island.  Our first stop was the Little Cayman Museum.  We got lucky as Tanya was there and took us on a tour of the the grounds and the museum.  She introduced us to about 15 iguanas.  She knew them all by name!  There is a little Booby that fell out of its nest being kept on the property.  It will soon be mature enough to be released.  What a treat to meet that little bird.  We continued on our tour.

The next day we toured the second half of the island as we took our time getting around.  We spent time on Point of Sand.  I packed a lunch and we ate there.  It is hard to remember all the things we did.  I cooked supper and we played a couple games before bed. 

We took the kayaks to Owen Island, we floated on the floaties in front of the house, we took the big boat to Owen Island and put out the anchor,  (what a fun day we had swimming there),  we snorkeled on Point of Sand, we took the big boat out around the whole island.  We stopped and jumped out of the boat on the north side to snorkel.  We bicycled, walked, layed in beach chairs, layed in hammocks and on and on and on! 

Natalie got a little sunburn, Michael did too, but Richard gets the award for the worst burn of the season!  His back is fried!  Somehow he didn't have his shirt on at the right time in the boat.  Ouch!

We ate our meals out on the porch and also ate one night at SCC and another at LCBR.  One morning we had a special treat eating breakfast at SCC.  These two like to eat out! 

I took a few photos.  Natalie took some great pictures she will send to me soon.

Holding hands on the beach.

At Point of Sand.

Eating at Iggy's their first night here.

On the north side at Bloody Bay wall.

On the deep sea boat traveling around the island.

Michael made a fan out of the frond of a Silver Palm.  We were all impressed.

Here are the cuties on our beach.