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3/24/26

 This morning I went for a walk across the street on the beach. It is about a 45 second walk. I thought I spotted a turtle. I ran back to get my camera. Turns out, it was just a tire. Boo! We did some light grocery shopping before heading to our dolphin encounter. At the dolphin encounter, there were fancy birds, tortoises and of course dolphins. The directions were simple. Leave your camera’s off the dock. We would get an opportunity to bring our phones down later. Of course one lady didn’t follow the directions. She got spoken too, like she should have. Then she decided to leave a poor review because SHE was an idiot and didn’t follow directions. She brought it up several times during and after the dolphin encounter. She was saying how terrible the woman was that told her she couldn’t use her phone.  What a jerk! I am likely going to write a review saying what an idiot the woman was for not following the directions. Our group wasn’t too big. We all got to get into the water ...
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3/23/26

  For today’s exploration, we went to the boiling hole. It’s an underwater sink hole. It is known for its unique tidal phenomenon. It makes the water to be boiling.  It wasn’t as exciting as it was made out to be.  But the water was brilliant and we saw lots of ships which was cool. We were the only people there. We were right near the port. We saw many ships leaving and arriving at the port.We didn’t stay long before moving on to the next location. We then headed to paradise cove. It is a bar/restaurant where you can rent chairs and snorkel. We got some chairs and an umbrella. We quietly snuck in alcoholic beverages. We sat  off to the side and minded our own business. They left us alone.  We didn’t actually snorkel. We enjoyed the afternoon on the beach. We found a few sand dollars that were dead. Neat! We tried to go to a restaurant. We walked in and were seated. We were clearly out of place and there were just locals in the restaurant. Suddenly, the kitchen ...
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3/22/26

  It was a wonderful nights sleep windows open, it got down to 61 degrees. We had coffee and chatted the morning. We have a large sliding glass wall almost that we can open up over looking the pool and canal way. We discussed the plan for the day. Get out and See the island. We decided on going to the best beach on the island.    Why not? It is near the sand bar that I wanted to visit. Let’s do a meal there. Supposedly the best beach on the island is at Lucian national park. We packed up and drove there. The entire drive was on an expressway the was surrounded by dead trees. Hurricane Dorian caused mass destruction in 2019 and wiped out these forests. The 185+ winds plus the salt water did not support healthy forests. We got to Lucayan National Park. We took a bit of a walk to see the caves. They were pretty cool. We then went on a walk to Rock beach. We had a cooler packed. We found a picnic table to sit at. The ocean felt good. It was quite warm and the ocean did the tr...
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3/21/26

  Diane ended up taking us to the airport this morning. She volunteered. It was bitter sweet. She was making us laugh in the car.  TSA was not bad at all and we breezed right through it. There was a large man in front of me that had the unfortunate experience of being patted down. The TSA man assured the guy that he was using the back of his had as if that somehow made it better in his groin area. We had several baby’s on our flight. Andy looks around and says: “Where is this flight going? Epstein Island?” We laughed. So inappropriate. We arrived in Miami and it was actually pleasant outside. We had to get off and on the plane outside. That always seems so exotic to me. We had a 5 hour layover. Ethan was texting us. He was tracking our flight on radar and giving us updates on the dogs. We saw a lot of interesting people, interesting outfits, and interesting behaviors.    There was a girl wearing these odd shoes that I described to Paul as “camel toe” shoes. On guy I ...
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3/20/26

 I woke up at 4:30 am prior to my alarm going off. I just had the swirling excitement that it is finally time to go on vacation tomorrow! I think I smiled all the way down the stairs, greeted the dogs happily and let them out. I may have been merrily skipping like I was as light as a feather. Paul picked up Andy and Diane’s passports last night so I can do a seamless check in for us all.  I poured my coffee and watched the clock so I could check in right at the 24 hours prior to take off.  I went to arrange the passports so I could take pictures of them and expedite the process. I opened Diane’s last. You can imagine the feeling of wanting to vomit out the horror when I saw her passport was expired. No! No! No! Ugh!!!!!! Maybe she gave me an old one? I immediately got online to come up with solutions. Is there a way to fix this? I found a place that does a 24 hour turn around. Yes! Let’s explore that.  I watched a video, read how it worked, read some reviews, searche...
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3/19/26

 I played catch up at work today. I needed to. While I was doing that I had 8 new positions open up! Ugh! I can’t imagine what things will look like when I get back. Moe has his vaccine appointment tomorrow. I am hoping he does ok. But I am a little nervous. Our bags are packed with the exception of our last minute items. The alarm is set to check into our flight, tomorrow at 5 am.  Everything seems like it is on target. Phew! My goal is to make things go smooth for everyone. One more day to make it through.
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3/18/26

 I received a text message from a coworker on my team. She is an absolute doll! She sent me a picture of runny stool and then a picture of blood in the snow. There was no caption.no words. These are the funniest texts to me. I did what anyone else would do. I zoomed in on the stool. You read that correctly!  She has a puppy less than a year old. I knew immediately that the dog ate something he wasn’t supposed to. This was not a blockage or severe illness. This dog is just a doofus dog that eats things he shouldn’t. She did try to take him to the vet, but she got hung up in traffic (she lives in a major city) and was 10 minutes late for her appointment. The office told her they could not see her. She said she sat in her car and cried for 20 minutes in the parking lot. I sent her several questions. She answered them. I gave her my thoughts on what I would do if it were my dog. I also gave her instructions to go to the vet if certain situations occurred. No bloody stool since! I ...
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