Jamaican Me Miss You

We just returned from a week in Montego Bay, Jamaica. It was our first trip back since getting married in Ocho Rios 10 years ago.


After all the preparation for getting ready to go on vacation (haircuts, dog boarding, packing, pedicure, holding mail, stopping the paper, watering plants, mowing the grass, etc.) we were ready to return to our island of no problems.

My mother-in-law Debbie and The Bobfather (Tim's dad) landed a hour before us and we met in the hotel lobby. And unlike our previous vacations where I threatened to punch him in the face and he told Troy to run for his life, we had a great week!



This was the first thing you see when you enter the hotel.


The entire week was filled many, many hours in the lazy river, trips to the swim up bar and taking turns going down the water slides with Troy.


Meanwhile, The Bobfather doesn't know a stranger because he talked to everyone that was in ear shot. If they weren't, he yelled out to them anyway.

We joked him all week that no matter where the person said they were from, he had lived there or traveled through the town at some point in his life.

Being an all-inclusive resort, the biggest challenge of the day past which bathing suit to wear to breakfast was what to drink next. We waivered between the Bob Marley, frozen Bahama Mama and Purple Haze before settling into the local Red Stripe.


We are already talking about going back next year mainly so The Bobfather can make new friends.

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Wordless Wednesday - I Blinked

I blinked and kindergarten is over for Troy.

Today was his last day of kindergarten. He started the year knowing his alphabet to reading, learning how to play baseball, tie his shoes and develop his own unique sense of humor among other things.






These crazy smiles have been around for years.

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Let's Play Ball!

Troy recently joined his first baseball team and the first game was this past Saturday.

For opening day, there was a parade of teams at the ball park.



Later in the day we had his first game. Watching a bunch of kids who don't know all the rules of America's favorite past time, is highly entertaining.



Each batter gets three pitches from his own coach and then the T comes out.



Troy hit his first pitch and made it to second base.



When his team, the Detroit Tigers, were out in the field the coaches rotated the kids in positions. At one point, Troy was at shortstop fielding the ball and since there was a runner at second, we told him to throw it to third base.




He did.

Too bad the third baseman was standing right next to him.



We figure that it will be like last year and playing soccer where one day it just clicks and he'll understand the rules of the game.

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Wordless Wednesday - Monster Truckin' Through the Orange Groves

Last month, we spent a long weekend in Florida with my parents and The BobFather and his wife Debbie.



Besides a trip to Legoland, we rode this through the orange groves of Central Florida at The Showcase of Citrus.
 

This included mud puddles.
 

Then fed the cows oranges.
 



Feeding cows oranges does not result in orange juice.

 My parents joined us for the ride.
 

Troy really enjoyed it.
 

 As did I.
 

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