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No Wire Hangers
Saturday morning Husband and I divided and conquered the children’s activities: he went to the monthly Home Depot Children’s Workshop with BB to build a boat, and I took BG to sailing class. I was watching BG clearly enjoying herself, … Continue reading
Posted in Caribbean Escapades, Island Style, Raves!
Tagged CGC Quick Repair, Home Depot Kids Workshop, Joan Crawford, Kmart, Mommie Dearest
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I wish I could say that in the months of silence since my last post I had accomplished something spectacular: written a bestselling novel, taught my children a foreign language, traveled to new exotic Caribbean locales, completely organized and cleaned … Continue reading
Hiding From The Real World At Coral World
We decided to take a visiting Norwegian Friend –almost family – to Coral World early one Saturday morning with the Babies (frankly, you would have to be as close as family to brave Coral World with our two). Every time … Continue reading
Posted in Caribbean Escapades, Quotidian, Who Knew?
Tagged Coral World, MTV, Pesce, Real World, Real World: St. Thomas, St. Thomas
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Real World: St. Thomas
As I am sure many of you have heard by now, the Real World is here and filming. For the moment, we are the center of the MTV production world while the 27th season of the thought-provoking, soul-searching, and endlessly … Continue reading
Posted in Caribbean Escapades, Quotidian, Who Knew?
Tagged Butterfly World, Coral World, Duffy's Love Shack, Hassel Island, MTV, Real World, Real World: St. Thomas, St. Thomas, USVI
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Friday Dilemma
There was no school today (Professional Day for Teachers, or some such reason) and this morning a bunch of us (mothers and children) hit Coral World, which is sort of like an indoor/outdoor aquarium. It was great fun, but hot … Continue reading
A Chartered Day Out With Children, Part 1
Captain Ocean Peterson picked the six of us up (Husband, Babies, visiting Mother and Sister, and me) at the dock at 8:30am in the chartered motorboat; he was taking us out for a day tour around the neighboring British Virgin … Continue reading
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Tagged Foxy's, Jost Van Dyke, Ocean Petersen, Painkiller, Soggy Dollar
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Six Month Statistics
In the six months since we moved here: We have had ONE hurricane (so low-grade that some people scoffed at it, but as it turned from a tropical storm into Hurricane Irene directly over us, it counts). Husband has had … Continue reading
West Side Story
The 15th Annual Bordeaux Farmer’s Rastafari Agricultural and Cultural Food Fair took place this weekend in Bordeaux, on the far western side of the island. For an island this size, the geographies are surprisingly diverse. The western side is stunning, … Continue reading
Santa Math
The 2010 census puts the population of St. Thomas at 51,634. For the sake of argument, make it 51,638 (with the four of us). About a third of the entire population of the United States Virgin Islands is under the … Continue reading
Ants: A Love Story
Husband HATES ants with a passionate fury seldom seen in a reserved man of hard science. For his crusading pleasure, we have three wonderfully tenacious kinds of ants down here in St. Thomas (that I know of): ‘fire,’ ‘normal’ (how’s … Continue reading
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