Lucky Shoe Day

I have to say that I have been a little depressed because Isabelle is growing out of her (and my) favorite shoes. She has these adorable pink sequin sneakers that I get so many comments on and she wears with EVERYTHING! So when Dave told me that the shoes were starting to get a little small I was very sad.

I have looked in the past and cannot find the shoes in any other sizes. I guess today was my lucky day because I looked one last time on The Children's Place website and Eureka, they have the shoe! Lucky day! I paid almost as much for shipping as I did for the shoe, but who cares they are on their way... yeah!

Love these shoes

Our $18,00 day

What an expensive evening this was! We took a recommendation from Dave's cousin, Jen, and decided to have dinner at a restaurant called Marguerites in Montego Bay. It was absolutely delicious! Dave and I enjoyed a Caesar salad for two made table side, absolutely the best Caesar salad I have ever had. After the salad we both had a Jerk Lobster Tail with a Jerk Filet Minon. The food was great at a little over $14,000 thank God this was before it was translated into American dollars. After dinner, drinks at Margaritaville, small souveneirs, and a taxi ride we had spent over $18,000 in one day! For one day we could pretend that we were millionaires and would spend tens of thousand of dollars on one meal. Even thought it really only translated into a $150 US dollars, but noone had to know. Thanks for the recommendation Jen, it was awesome!

What a romantic view from Margaritaville, and the empty streets of Jamaica


You know you are serious about Tequila when you have Patron on tap!

I was very surprised about how slow Jamaica was. There was hardly anyone at our hotel. I asked the lady at the spa if they were normally this slow this time of year and she said they were usually swamped and not even allowed to take a day off this time of year. Now due to the economy they have 4-5 days off a week. Someone else told me that even the cruise ships have cut way back. They normally have 3-4 ships a day come into Monetego Bay and now they are lucky to get 2 and most times only get 1 a day. As you can see in the pictures of the city there was not a single tourist on the streets but us. Very sad!

Tuesday- Relaxing, Pampering and a lot of mud

Tuesday was the "free day" of the vacation. We had a few options of things to do that day, and as any woman would do I choose to spend the day at the spa. While I was spending the day at the spa Dave was getting his own Mud Bath on a Dune buggy tour.

My spa day consisted of a facial, manicure and pedicure. Since quitting my job to stay at home with Isabelle (almost a year ago), I can count the number of times I have had a manicure/pedicure on just a few fingers, not even a whole hand. It was very relaxing. Other than the lady ragging on me while getting my facial about my face cleaning ritual, big pores (that I was told are irreversibly damaged), and the fact that I don't use eye cream. Other than all that, very relaxing =) Needless to say I am going to do some research on some affordable yet good face cleaning and maintenance product, any suggestions are welcome. Bad thing was when I opened my eyes to really get a good look to see how awful HER face looked, I was sad to see she was blemishless. (What a b***h, excuse me sorry!)

Anyway after my relaxing day at the spa I went back to the hotel room to wait for Dave to get back from his dune buggy ride. When he got back he was barely recognizable, I just wish I would have taken a picture. He walked in, I asked him what happened and he told me he would have to tell me about it after he showered. I am sure the maid must have thought we had a mud bath in our hotel bathroom. Come to find out he was covered head to toe with mud on the tour, which he loved every minute of, and so he decided to jump in the ocean fully clothed. SOOO glad that I choose a spa day over the dune buggies.

Monday Night

On Monday night after a long day of relaxing by the pool, we attended a Mixology class. After our short lesson on the art of drink making we all split up into groups to see who could make the best drink. My team won, yeah!! (we beat Dave's team by one point, a complete blow out if you ask me)

After dinner we headed to the beach for a beach cook out complete with a bonfire, fire dancer, limbo dancers, and sand fleas. Oh boy did the sand fleas love me, I was eaten alive. Tempted to buy some Benadryl cream for the constant nagging itch but could not swallow paying $18 at the Ritz's gift shop. A little over priced if you ask me.

Monday- Day 1 of Relaxation

It is strange, but until this vacation I had actually forgotten what it was like to go to the bathroom all by myself. What a weird sensation not tugging a 3 year old behind you. (Ok, not going to call her 3 anymore I still have have a good 13 days of the two year old life.. boo hoo)

We arrived in Jamaica on Sunday and had a great dinner at the Jerk Beach on the Ritz property. It was kind of a quite night I think everyone was settling down after a day of traveling. We were also trying to get to know one another. As I mentioned in my last post Dave won the trip from work for all of the hard work he does, so there were an additional 27 couples there as well who won. They came from all over the world, so there were not to many familiar faces.

Monday was the beginning of all of the relaxing that was to take place. We started off by waking up ALL MY OURSELVES. No alarm clocks, no "Mommy it's light outside", just woke up as we did before we had a child. It was sooo weird! After waking up we hurried to get dressed so that we could take advantage of breakfast before it was gone. This is when I knew that I was going to be spoiled, as we sat on the patio of the restaurant eating breakfast while a Jamaican man sung to us. Since coming home I have tried to convince Dave that I need him to sing to me to truly enjoy my meal, but I guess he doesn't care because he refuses to do it.

After breakfast we relaxed by the pool. The goal for the day was to get as many pictures as we could from the comfort of our lounge chairs =)

Our New Crib

My wonderful hubby won us a trip to the beautiful Jamaica. Upon arrival Dave and I decided to take a video of our room "cribs style". For those of you who don't know what that is, it's a show on MTV where celebrities show off their cribs (aka houses) on TV.

What a cheesy husband I have, but I love him!

Mama Mia

Isabelle and I went to the mall today. Each trip to the mall requires a ride on the carousel. I took this oppotunity to get Isabelle to show off her singing skills.

We just recently watched the movie Mama Mia and absolutely LOVED it! I downloaded the soundtrack and now that is all we listen to in the car. Her favorite songs are Mama Mia and Honey, Honey. A girl after my own heart =) I think we will go for Grease or The Sound of Music next. Grease maybe a little riskay for her right now, oh well The Sound of Music it is!