CARRIBEAN

This is the "place" we ate our lunch on the U.S. Virgin Islands. I had the best beans and rice and Jer had Jerk chicken. (note: I neglected to get the pot smokers in the shot)

We also went snorkeling here and fed some fishies!! They swarmed Jer and I. We were overwhelmed by them. All in all, it was awesome.

Next we went to St. Maarten where I saw way too many nude men. But, Jeremy seemed to like it. We rented beach chairs at this mexican restaurant/beach front?? I wanted to look like a biker chick for once.... What do you think??? And yes, we do not tan well.

The next pic is of me enjoying the warm water at St. Maarten. There is one think I loved about this beach. The water had a sweet smell to it. I remember the beaches in California smelt like strong salty funk. I couldn't believe how wonderful the breeze was. You couldn't even tell you were at the beach.

Jeremy's favorite part of the cruise ship was the big screen T.V. that showed all the football games. The view was always amazing from the ship. The water was often still, but on other days it was a'ragin. The rocking of the boat caught me off guard the first day and I didn't think I would make it. Jeremy had to guide me down the halls for some time. After the first night, sleeping felt like the big mamma carnival was slowly rocking me to sleep.... until she hit the gas at 2 a.m.!!!!

Lying to your children

I think that we have all been there at one point in our lives. We want someone to do something immediately and not try to explain it to them in detail why it is sooo important that they do the task that we ask of them now. Alice sometimes just loves to take off her seat belt, or for that matter not even put it on. So me, the neglectful dad, will be driving down the road and notice that my 3 year old hasn't put on her seat belt yet or is doing it really slowly. Expaining why the seat belt is so important is not an option, so i tell her that if she doesn't do it right now the police will come get her.
There are other things I tell my children that are not exactly true but they do curve behavior that I do not appreciate. for instance over Christmas I told my alice, when she was not acting nicely, that santa was comming to take her back. I would pretend to call santa and have a conversation with him. to accomplish this task I would pretend that my hand was a phone.

So setting that as a background the other day when i wasn't acting the way that alice wanted me too she pretended to call the police and have them take me back! She said, "hello police, my daddy is bad! You want to come take him back? Ok bye" then she turned to me and said, "Daddy you bad the police are comming to take you back."


being a dad is great!