Family, Fun and Life....

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It was Rob's Birthday on Sunday...but we had a surprise B-Day party for him on saturday night! He was so surprised. I invited our friends, and family and he was totally taken! Me and Mom and Ray and Lesley made 60 yes...count them 60 chicken and cheese enchaladas and I made 4 tons of rice...LOL and beans too!

Dad and Jacquie came over, and Nick and Katy, Kim & Carlos...everyone had a good time.

Frannie made her Cheesecake..which of course was phenom!!!

It's Monday...I didn't talk much about my trip to the Bahamas with Rachele..so I wanted to just do a quick synopsis!

We flew to Florida on the red eye on the 15th of April, landed, went shopping, and helped pack the boat for the long trip to the Bahamas.

We slept on the boat, and got up around 6am for the embarkation! IT was so beautiful to watch the sunrise as we were leaving Lauderdale. We had a 5 hour trip to the first Island which was Lucaya, Freeport, Grand Bahama's. It was event full with pleanty of sick stomachs and all that jazz! But we slept a lot, and pulled into port and really enjoyed the time.

We only spent one night there...and didn't really go anywhere but the village that was right next to the docks. We headed to the beach close to the docks, and spent the day just playing in the water and having fun. We got a few handmade necklaces from the locals and really enjoyed the weather!!

We went to sleep and woke up straight away when the ballasters of the boat began to grind and grunt while leaving the harbor. We quickly downed a couple of Bonine, and were on our 8 hour ocean journey to Nassau!

Ray and I slept a few hours, and before you knew it, we could see about 10 miles in the distance Atlantis. I felt a sense of joy at seeing land, and could almost understand how when people years ago were sailing to the new world, or just trading spices etc. happened upon the land how it was a sense of accomplishment, and happiness. We of course have all of the modern equipment, radar and depth perception etc. We just set the course, and hit auto pilot and off we go.

Nassau was AMAZING! We went to the Atlantis Resort, walked around and spent a number of hours at the water park!! I wanted to take so many photo's but we were always soaking wet!! Rachele loved Atlantis! I did too! I would love to go back. We were there for 2 days, then hightailed it to Eleuthria! Eleuthria was absolutely breath taking!! Beaches that I have never seen, and amazing people who were so very kind and beautiful!!

We went to a Club Med beach, that was deserted because of a Hurricane a few years ago. It was a private beach, and now it is public and has pink sand and is beautiful!

A place where I could sit for hours and watch the surf. Peaceful..beyond even explanation.

We were there for a few days, saw an amazing site called the Glass Window Bridge. It was something that I will always remember!! One side of the bridge has the Angry Atlantic, the other side...The Calm Caribbean Sea. The narrowist place on earth.

We spent 3 nights in Eleuthria and then we sailed back to Nassau. We spent another two nights in Nassau at the Atlantis resort, so a total of 4 nights there! Rachele loved it again because we were able to go back to the water park. We rode the 'Current' which is just riding on the river, with slips and falls and a huge wave machine. We laughed, and we just enjoyed such an amazing wonderful clarity how life is such a beautiful thing.

I had such a good time with my family, and with my beautiful daughter.

Happy to be here to enjoy the gifts of family, fun, life and of course my daughter!!

Be Well Folks!!