Life At The Circus

This February the girls had their very first international meet in Orlando Florida!  And since the meet happened to be only 10 minutes from Universal Studios, we decided to add a day of Family Fun at Universal Studios before heading home from Florida. Our oldest son has read the entire Harry Potter series more than once as well as some of the “bonus books”  like Fantastical Beasts and Quidditch Through the Ages… child number two got into the Harry Potter phase this fall and is currently reading book 5.  Child number three read books 1-4 a a year or so ago… she stopped on book 5 b/c it got too scary for her liking.  I have read through 5 but it was many years ago and I am fuzzy on details.  So, we decided the whole family needed to listen to the audiobook for book 1 on our 13 hour ride down to Florida, since we were going to see The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.  Jim Dale does a FABULOUS job of narrating it. It got us all in the mood for a day of Harry Po...

Our final port of call was St Kitts. . We didn’t really have a game plan for St Kitts.  All we knew was we wanted to find monkeys and a beach with some shells and snorkeling.  We found a taxi driver who could take us to both!   After getting a chance to hold the monkeys, we set off for the beach. Here we enjoyed several hours of sand, sun, swimming, sea shells, and snorkeling.   They found Dory! Everyone got to do what they wanted and we all had a wonderful day at St Kitts!

When we found out the itinerary for the family cruise, Scott and I were super excited to see that the ship would be stopping at St Thomas… this meant that we could take an excursion to St John and visit US Virgin Island National Park!!!  That’s right, another vacation with a sign pic for the circus crew!! National parks rarely disappoint and St. John was no exception.  St John was our family’s favorite day of the vacation (and there were a lot of good days)!   We even saw an iguana on St Thomas right when we got off the cruise ship…. you know your day is off to a great start, when you’re greeted by an iguana!     The kids enjoyed it all, from the ferry ride over, to the van ride to the park.   The snorkeling there was fun and amazing… even better than we had even hoped.           We saw so many beautiful fish and even an eel and a sting ray!  All 6 of us got to enjoy snorkeling.   I was so thankful for all the swim p...