JoJo!!

What a random, cloudy day we had! We drove K&G to their kayaking tour (they'd never been before and wanted to start out somewhere a little calmer than our bay) before going exploring with Susie. I'm really getting comfortable with my left-side driving. If this island wouldn't make their speed bumps a mile high and almost impossible to cross without bottoming out we'd really have something. Seriously. I crawl across them and our little rental car still has no chance of not touching. Anyway, the three of us headed out to the conch farm to see what the deal was there. As it turns out a tour is $12 a person and they didn't have a working credit card machine so we just hung out with the owner, a So. Cal transplant, and discussed life on the island. He was...a character. When we told him that we were from Indiana he assumed we were dairy farmers. What?! Get out more, my man. Anyway, Jackson had NO interest in the tour, but Susie and I did. Bummer.


We left the "farm" and went to Long's Beach. It is a fairly new development with houses ranging from $1.3-5 million. We didn't want to live in such shacks so we just took the public beach access to go for our walk. ;)


I love signs like this.


Shockingly, Indianapolis wasn't on there. Lame. ;)


Jackson and Susie ready for our walk.


This dog left his "shack" and wandered down the beach with us. He didn't shed dollar bills as I'd hope a rich dog would. Ha. ;)


Sometimes he even lead the way (not to a buried treasure though- boo!). This beach had more large shells and corral rocks than ours so we cut our walk a bit short.


When we headed back to the car a horse tour came out of nowhere and into the water. I find this to be some form of animal cruelty and the horses pooped all over the beach and in the surf. It smelled just great!!! ;)


We stumbled upon what we thought was a dead crab.


Then he reached up and grabbed Jackson's water bottle with his claws.


I screamed and ran. I only returned because Susie demanded photos!

On our way home we stopped at a bakery we kept passing that had been favorably reviewed onTripAdvisor. We weren't disappointed. Why? The baker HATES cinnamon and won't use it in any of his goods. What's that sound? Is that angels singing? I think so. I had a chocolate chip muffin, Jackson had a few chocolate-filled croissants and Susie a pecan croissant.

We returned to the condo and our bakery- provided lunch before going back to "our beach" for the afternoon. The bakery's good were delicious and reasonably priced so we reviewed them as such on our TripAdvisor account. Can you tell we love that website?!


Jackson and I headed down to Club Med (again) to go sailing on one of their Hobie Cats. Susie was still on the beach and was able to capture the photo above of us out on the water. It was SO fun! Jackson hadn't sailed in years but did a pretty good job only stumbling when we needed to turn. We didn't get those down to a science or even close, honestly. I tore up my knees switching sides and trying to avoid falling off when the sail came barreling across the boat on turns. I'm happy to report that I was only hit in the face one time by the sail. I consider that a victory. We watched other people tip their boats over but Jackson knew I'd kill him if that happened so we were more careful. We still caught some great wind and had a nice sail. We returned to "the club" (as Jackson took to calling it) and got busted. The wristbands the guests wear are clear so we'd totally missed them! The attendant in the beach wanted to know where our bands were or if we were on a ($220 a day) day pass. I left Jackson to do the explaining ("oh, we needed to wear that? Oops. Ok. We are in room 1140 we'll go put them in now!") and returned my life jacket and scurried back to our condo before they tried to squeeze $400+ out of us for our sailing trip. Jackson only knew a room number because we'd read reviews online of the hotel and a guy posted his room number. Thank you, former Club Med guest, for saving ours butts!! Needless to say, Jackson's days of sneaking down to Club Med are over.

Jackson and Grace played a rousing game of frisbee (read: Grace on the beach making Jackson swim a ton to return her tosses) before we headed out to our sunset cruise.


The fam ready for some rum punch and fun.


Yes, Grace did JUST turn 13 and is almost as tall as me. Whatever.


This was our ship (photo from the company' website) and our crew was lead by Captain Rock. True story. He was quite the character.


We went for a sunset but the day was so cloudy that there wasn't one. We did get to see the island's famous dolphin, JoJo. Grace and I sat on the trampoline at the front of the boat and watched him swim right underneath us. It was awesome! He had a female dolphin and her baby with him, too. We loved it! The cruise also promised to show us glow worms. A few days after a full moon these worms mate and it makes a fluorescent glow when they do. Basically we watched bug porn. It was kind of neat but Grace and I decided these people had clearly never seen lightning bugs or they'd be less impressed. Ha! :)

The sailing was really fun and I was able to safely transport the slightly over served elders on this trip home without incident. We watched the Pacers blow it against the Heat before retiring for the night. Today is supposed to be sunnier so we are hoping for a tan to go home with tomorrow afternoon.

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