Family Trip!!!

Sorry for the lack of posts recently. Last week was our family vacation to Turks and Caicos and I have been having a hard time getting back to reality. I always have a hard time adjusting back to normal life after a week of total relaxation! We had a wonderful time on vacation and exploring a new island…. I still prefer St. John but it was a great trip!

Things weren’t looking to good when we went to get our rental car for the week…. A blue minivan. Not just a normal minivan, a minivan unlike any I had ever seen before. Ben referred to it as the Mystery Machine!

Everything changed when we saw the house! It was amazing! I absolutely loved everything about it… the open floor plan, the furniture, the appliances, even the security system was amazing! The doors didn’t have keys, just codes to lock and unlock them!

I am pretty proud of myself for stepping out of my box on this trip. I ate raw conch, pulled a conch out of its shell with my hands, and kayaked with sharks… I didn’t actually know there were sharks in the water at the time!! When it swam under us, Ben told me it was a really big fish (it was a baby shark)!! Haha he knew I would have flipped out!!

Number one place on the island is definitely Da Conch Shack. Most amazing conch fritters and rum punch I have ever had!! They actually get the conch from right in front of the restaurant. You can watch the employees bring the them in from the water and they even sell the shells after they are cleaned! It was a really fun place!

Another place we really enjoyed was Grill Rouge at the Grace Bay Club. We ended up eating there twice and the second night we ran into a girl we went to high school with who was there on her honeymoon… Small world!! The Infinity Bar is also at Grace Bay Club and Libba kept saying she wanted to go there for a drink. It is the longest bar in the Caribbean, stretching 90 feet “across Grace Bay Blub to the shores of Grace Bay Beach” accounting to the website. Sounds pretty cool right?! Sadly it does not go to the water, or the beach. It’s pretty much just a long table in an outdoor bar/restaurant. Good drinks but not as exciting as we were expecting! However, The Lounge was really nice. Same drinks but better set up! Top photos are from infinity bar, the bottom from the lounge!!

We did a day on a boat and it was probably the best day of the whole trip! The two guys who ran the boat were awesome and they made it fun for all of us there! The first spot they took us was the reef. It is actually the third largest barrier reef in the world! Then they look us to find some conchs! Once we had about five, they took us to a small island, let us pick three and then showed us how to prepare them… That is where I ate the raw conch!

I think the little ones had a great time!! They both loved playing in the sand. Hollis and Bill took Lawson with them in the kayaks to go to Iguana Island. It is this small island across the channel from our house that is home to tons of iguanas!!

Overall we had a great time!!

 

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