Beautiful Barbados

Friday night seems so long ago now but that was when I took our dog to her sister's house - or what we call "summer camp". Mimi is so fortunate that her sister and human family let her visit so often and that she's never had to go to a kennel.

I got back from that about 10 and we had a quick dinner of sandwiches from the grocery. Then to finish up packing.

I got to bed about 12:30... Not too bad but we had to get up at 2:15 to catch our flight.

Our taxi arrived at 3 and we got to the airport by 4. Unfortunately, the flight folks didn't get there until nearly 5 so we couldn't check our baggage.

Finally, that was done, we cleared security, and got to the gate. One interesting thing about this flight was that we had used frequent flier miles on United. They got us the tickets through their partner, Air Canada, so we found ourselves flying from Washington, DC to Toronto before heading south to Barbados. Added a bit to the trip!

We did get some good sunrise pictures from the plane, though. The last few look like the wing is on fire.
Maybe later I'll make up a better story about those pictures :)

All went well and we got to Toronto in about an hour and a half. Cleared customs there but didn't have to get our luggage. Yea!

On to the next gate. The next flight had a bit of turbulence but I was proud of myself and didn't scream although I did clutch the armrests pretty heavily.

We arrived and all was well. Got our luggage, cleared customs and immigration and off to Stoute Rental Car. We have been renting cars (and once, bicycles) from them for about 15 years.

And we're off to The Crane, remembering to drive on the left. Around the roundabouts and up the road.

At last, we are home!

We got unpacked very quickly. We already know where everything goes. Computers set up, stuff put away, furniture moved so that the desk is facing the big doors to the ocean instead of the wall and smaller window to the ocean.

We went to the little grocery store here to tide us over until the real store on Sunday.

Tom did some email checking, I read and napped, then out to dinner at D'Onofrio's (Italian). Yummy food then back home.

When we got to our front door, there were 3 tiny baby frogs. I wished I had my camera. I got lucky when we got in because there was a slightly bigger one in our kitchen sink. I got his picture!

A little TV, a little reading, then fast asleep.

...and we'll be at the airport for our trip to Barbados.

I always get excited when it's close to Barbados time - it's like going home for me. 

I was reading over some of the past years' blog posts and found that the images in some have a big black triangle.  I'm not sure what that's about but if you click on that triangle, the picture will show up.

This will be our 15th year going to Barbados since we went for the first couple years to Coral Point, just up the coast.  So many memories, especially the ones from September 11, 2001.  Then there were the years that hurricanes almost hit, the year we met an "alien", being on the Concorde, the horse races, the archeology at an old Jewish Synagogue, the beautiful flowers, the roti, last year when we had the big ceiling leak...

The Countdown has begun!

 

Here are some of the pictures Tom took.  He took a lot of pictures of the destruction of the Oh, My God bridge, falling rocks on the road and other things I'm not as interested in.

Anyway, here are his pictures.  We still have some coming from the waterproof camera taken in the Rainmaker rainforest.  Those have to be developed before uploading.