Spring Break Cruisin and a Trip to Grandma's

March 13-20th, 2010 - We drove the girls up to Grandma Linda's for a week of fun time while Dave and I flew to Ft Lauderdale to board the Celebrity Solstice for a week. Amazingly refined decor and restaurants. No Carnival crowd here. Glass blowing demo off the back of the sun deck, the aqua spa, and we stayed in the Aqua Class rooms. This meant we got to eat at Blue, the special Aqua class restaurant. It was a great experience but a bit too euro for our tastes after a while. We stopped in Puerto Rico, Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Gorda BVI, and Haiti at Royal Carribean/Celebrity's private island pit-stop. The huge earthquake hit Haiti just a few months before and we wanted to go and try to help the economy. We bought some things from a canoeing salesguy during our waverunner excursion but weren't able to see much else of the island. They kept us pretty isolated (on purpose, I think - Haiti is a very poor country and even more so since the devastating earthquake). This is the last picture we took the whole trip since I put our camera in my pocket and then got hit by a huge wave at the Baths at Virgin Gorda. We met Jim and Sarah Mather there who we ended up hanging out with the rest of the cruise. Really nice couple who live in Daytona Beach now. Wish I had a picture of them, sigh...

Chocolate Pizza Mondays

Madison started her first ballet/tap class this year (09-10) at the MA Dance Studio on 1431. We go on Monday mornings at 10:45. Afterwards we always go to Double Dave's pizza buffet for the pizza and salad and (most importantly) 'chocolate pizza' afterwards. It is this amazing confection of chocolate-chip cookie dough baked over a thin pizza crust. It is sooooo good, it's gotta be really bad for you. But I figure if a 4 year old with her perfectly unclogged liver can't enjoy it, then who can? Sometimes you just have to embrace life. :) One Monday, her classmates came along. Aren't they so cute? Madison, Addy Fort, Grace, and Avery Bates