My family never really took vacations growing up - my dad was an Air Force reservist, so most of his vacation days from his regular job were spent doing his one weekend a month, two weeks per year reserve duty. It's not quite true - there were the occasional trips to my grandparents or to visit the cousins, and one time when we were living in Virginia we took a few days to go to the beach in Delaware. In terms of Christmas vacations, I think this is actually our third. When we were living in Illinois (making me between 3 and 6) my dad's reserve duty was in Colorado over Christmas. We spent a few days on base and then went skiing. Then when we were living in CA (I think I was in 8th grade) my dad's reserve duty was at the Pentagon, so we tagged along to DC. Anyway you look at it this vacation was long overdue. We did spend a lot of time together as a family, and we always ate dinner together, so this vacation has been a great reminder of old times and good laughs as well as new memories. I think it's a little overwhelming for Ben, as an only child.
On Boxing day, the front came through and boy did it come through. The highest we read on the instruments was 35 knots of wind, but we didn't have them on the entire day, and there were times it sounded much higher than that. It would not have been a good day to go sailing and we were very glad to have moved to a marina.
Monday we decided to head to Green Turtle on the ferry from Treasure Cay. We had a little bit of a delay, we had a flat tire pulling out of the driveway from the rental house. Luckily the car did have a donut and jack in the trunk (sitting in a puddle of water) and with the help of a nice Bahamian man were able to replace the tire and make it back to OC at the Cornish Car Rental.
OC assured us that the tire was not actually flat, the rim was just bent. He was able to bang it back into place, added a little bit of air to our tires, and use a screw driver to create a drainage hole in the trunk. We headed for the 11:30 ferry, although I think it was not actually the 11:30 ferry, and left at about 11:15.
We're pretty sure that's Justin Bieber on the ferry with us - hiding from the paparazzi. The life of a star.
We had a great time in Green Turtle even though a lot of places were closed for Boxing Day. And it was cold. We had a good lunch at Laura's Kitchen and bought conch for dinner at the grocery store. We decided to skip the museum, $5 was a little rich for us, even if there was a lot of history. We caught the 3 pm ferry back to Treasure and Ben made a wonderful conch dinner - soup and fritters.
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