Cayman 2011 Feb. 9-16 Week 5

.During my last week to the outdoor mall Caymana Bay I spent time with Coco and her godbrother Logan. They are so cute together.

Wed, Feb. 9 - Coco's favourite toy to play with is a cash register with plastic coins. Some might think this means that she is destined to become a financial accountant like her parents. But I think this means that she will grow up to be a professional shopper like her Auntie Lana!

Fri, Feb.11 -It's Friday night and Rio's 4th birthday party just ended! Phew, am I tired! I feel like I just ran a marathon. A house full of 4 year olds and their families. The party was about 3 hours long and boy, did those kids have fun. We rented a bouncy castle for the backyard, which is directly where the kids ran to as soon as they came from school...
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The parents and nannies had as much fun sitting inside talking and eating. 2 of the 6 classmates of Rio are filipino and all of the nannies are filipino. I felt like I was at a family party in Vancouver! Eventually, I made my way into the bouncy castle to act as the tickle monster. So much fun! Afterwards they all came in to eat, have cake, watch Rio open gifts and get their goodies from the pinata. One kid said it was the best party she had ever been to!



After the party was over it was just Jason, Monette, Shay, Rio, Coco, Jing, Dixie and I left in the house. The party store still hadn't come to pick up the bouncy castle, so we attacked it one more time! You can't help it, once you get into one of those things you become a kid again! I definitely got my exercise for the day.

Sat. Feb 12 - Went to Margaritaville for Shay's best friend's birthday party. They all went swimming in the pool, but I just stayed close to all the food, shmoozing with the other parents. Then back home to do a birthday treasure hunt for 4 year old Rio. Relaxing day....

Sun. Feb 13 - In the afternoon I looked after the girl while Jason and Monette had an early Valentine's date. The girls were easy to look after. Shay and Rio spent most of the time on the computer and playing with their doll house. Me and Coco spent a lot of time reading books in her room......well not actually reading the books......Coco got a Disney book and would find pages with some witch and scare her Auntie Lana with it. Her giggle is priceless!

Mon. Feb 14 - Happy Valentine's Day! Jing and I took Coco to the South Sound community centre play group. Since it was my last time there I spent most of the time saying goodbye to all the nice mothers/nannies I had met while I've been here. Then shopping for the last time at my favourite grocery store Kirk's. Home for lunch and a quick nap.

Afterwards Monette took me to her hair salon in Camana Bay where we both got our hair cut. I love going there. Bong, the hair dresser is a really nice filipino and the salon is so pretty. He curled my hair with a straightener by curving it back and forth. So nice!.

Tues Feb 15 - I decided to be a tourist today. Jing, Coco and I went downtown and walked among all the cruise ship tourists. We looked in at all the stores pretending we had never been there before. We sampled rum cake and looked at the million of tourist memorabillia that said "I've been to Cayman!".
And here are pictures of Coco trying to skip rope while we were doing our last morning of exercise...

Jason and Monette were busy with sports and work, so I ended up watching the kids from 6:30 to 9:30 that night. I read a lot with little Coco. We all watched the Disney Channel together. I was the bucking horse again with Coco and Rio on my back. I also spent a lot of time in the kitchen making snacks for these non-stop eaters. It's pretty easy to watch these kids as long as I don't have to put them to sleep. I survived! I fell asleep instantly that night and didn't wake up til 8 hours later.

Cayman Feb 3-8 - Week 4

Oops it's already Sunday Feb 6 and I forgot to write in my blog. More of the same. Except on Friday night Monette took me out with her co-workers Jennifer and Brian. They're the same people we went out with the last time I was here. We went to Yoshi's for sushi before we headed out to the Aqua Beach bar. Loved dancing outside at the 7 mile beach. I even ran into a friend there - small island - I don't know that many people here. One thing that is very different from the clubs in Vancouver is the age of the people. In Vancouver most of the people are between the ages of 19 to 25. Since this is a tourist filled island, the people range from 21 to 60. There are some people wearing sexy dresses and some people wearing shorts and flipflops. There were even 2 guys that were dressed exactly like the men from the Jersey Shore - side ballcap, big biceps and fake tans! Whatever you wear is fine! This is the Carribean! Relax!

Feb.6 Sunday: Today, for Monette's actual birthday I cooked a breakfast for the family. I made eggs, bacon, toast, strawberries and blueberries. Me and Monette just ate a little. We had to save our appetites for the Ritz brunch buffet we were going to with Jing and her daughter Dixie. It was so good.. I began taking pictures of all the different stations of food. There was Japanese food, dim sum, salad bar, seafood, lamb, cheese/bread, omelettes, desserts galore, etc. I didn't quite finish taking pictures of everything, because I started getting really hungry! I had to put the camera down and start eating!.... I did take a picture of all the plates of food I ate. Yummy!.....



After walking around the hotel looking at artwork and stores, we headed back home. After all that food, I needed a long nap. When I woke up I made Jason and the girls nachos for dinner (me and Monette were still full from brunch) and we spent the rest of the night watching the Superbowl.


Feb.8, Tuesday - Today was quite an experience. Got to go to Rio's pre-kindergarten class. Fun, but exhausting. Then right after that I did my exercise class with Jing. I was starving after that so ate a big lunch at 11am. Next we went to go have smoothies, and then went to the warehouse store to buy an exercise mat for Jing's daughter Dixie. The rest of the day was pretty easy........but then night came around.
Jason was out playing hockey and Monette needed me to entertain all the girls in their room while she took an important work phone call. The kids were not happy because it's hard to include a 1and a 1/2 year old, a 4 year old and a 7 year old in one game. But I managed to do it. I became a horse and let all 3 of them pile on top of my back. What a work out! They were constantly falling off me - mostly because they became off balance, but sometimes because I felt like my back was going to break if I didn't throw them off! We were laughing hysterically the whole time. If you see me in Vancouver you will notice I will probably be walking with a cane! Oh, what an auntie will do to keep her nieces happy!