great weekend

We had a great weekend! I can't believe it's Thursday already!! We spent Saturday, Sunday and Monday exploring the island. Saturday we went to one of the rocky beaches and just walked around and looked for sea glass (glass that somehow made it into the ocean and has been smoothed out by the waves/rocks--it's cool) and shells. Sunday we went to another two rocky beach spots that we had been to before and just climbed around and enjoyed an OK day. Monday was beautiful and we went into Paria and did some street shopping, had lunch at a little outdoor place (burgers and fries and some chicken paste baguette?!), then headed out for a "little" hike. After walking through cow fields (fortunately no cows) we headed into the "woods" on a little path which was half dirt/half mud. Cameron slept for about an hour of the hike as Jeff lifted the kids over mud puddles and streams. They really enjoyed finding the red and yellow trail markers. Half way into the hike I asked Jeff if it was a loop or out and back, "i didn't look at the map that carefull." Not knowing how much further we had we turned around. At this point the kids were furious that we didn't keep going and we were beyond trying to avoid the mud. Halfway back Heather said, "dad help" and you couldn't see her feet--really! She had sunk in a muddy spot up to her ankles and charlie was right behind her. We wish we had taken a picture...the kids loved the hike and after we discovered that it was a loop (by looking at the map when we got back) we vowed to finish it another time. This week has flown by and we're working on packing to get to OH and disney and OH again in the next few weeks.