The Sky is Fallling! The Sky is Falling!

Forgive me for my whining but...You know the story of Chicken Little and his barnyard friends? Chicken Little panics when an acorn falls on his head because he's sure the sky is falling, and then all of the other animals join in on the panicked frenzy because they're all sure they're doomed. I think the Chicken Little story is based loosely on a snow day in New England. Tuesday afternoon the meteorologists were predicting a storm of 10-16 inches on Wednesday in Connecticut (the dreaded NorEaster), which of course, caused a panicked frenzy. Grocery stores were cleared of food, gas stations were emptied of fuel, and every school in the state was cancelled before a flake of snow ever fell from the sky. In fact, as you can see from my photos, very few flakes of snow ever fell from the sky. We will now be spending another day in school during the month of June all for 3 inches of snow that fell after 4:00 pm! You'd think after 6 years of this, I'd be able to just go with the flow....but "bonk" bonk" bonk," (that's the sound of my head hitting the wall repeatedly.) It's just one of those things I haven't been able to get over. Sigggghhhhh. Oh well! The kids had a great day of watching tv and eating junk food.

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11:30 am. Thursday
( a beautiful day!)

My Condolences to All of You Stuck at Home in the Cold!

Yes, I know, we're spoiled but we started something two years ago that we cannot quit--an annual cruise to a warm location with Jim and Jill. It doesn't get much better than that! This year we left from Florida and visited Grand Cayman, Roatan, Honduras, Cozumel, Mexico, and Princess Cays--a private island in the Bahamas. We had a lovely 7 days of eating, sleeping, eating, lounging, eating, snorkeling, eating, zip lining, eating, scuba diving, eating, watching movies on the deck under the stars, and eating! Life was pretty darn good!

Dennis's catch of the day in Cozumel was a lovely balloon hat.
Holding stingrays in Grand Cayman
There is a sand bar a few miles out to sea where the stingrays congregate for free meals.





A sunset off of our balcony

The Elwoods, the Blotters, and our Boise friends, the Franklins and the Sheltons,

who have happened to be on all 3 cruises with us!

We're pretty sure we must have known each other in the pre-existence!

This photo was taken right after we gorged ourselves at the Crown Grille so I'm pretty sure all eight of us are sucking in our guts during the photo shoot!

Trying to get the monkey off my back!

Jill and I went ziplining while the guys went scuba diving, and this monkey really wanted the fruit in my backpack. When Jill tried to get him off, he bit her so I just had to take my backpack off of my shoulders and toss him to the ground! This would be AFTER he wrapped his tail around my neck and stuck the end of it in my mouth! I woke up the next morning and jumped on Dennis's back and started picking at his fleas, so who knows what disease I picked up!

A really hot couple!

(and walking advertisements for the Boston Red Sox!)

The Crown Princess. I still see her in my dreams!

The Elwoods and the Blotters in Cozumel. Notice the sweatshirts!

It was a little chilly that day but the water was still 78 degrees so who can complain?!

Eating...This is what we did for 95% of our cruise!