Back at the grind

Baby is growing! New baby doctor seems great. She has scheduled us for another ultrasound on feb 13, of all days.  Went ice fishing, totally skunked, but the babes seemed to think it fun.

We are busy doing inventory, maintenance and new displays at the shop. It's tiring. Sean us helping me today and Debbie helped set up new displays the other day.

Fran was down assisting sean with basement wiring. While Debbie and I worked on clearing more junk out of the baby room and organizing the storage in there. Getting there.

Meanwhile little squirt keeps on kicking amd rolling around. My basketball sized uterus is actually 2 cm further along than the norm. I went and did the gestational diabetes test yesterday. Today I feel a little off, as if I have a cold coming on.

Poor Rachie

We had a wonderful meal last night. Early in the morning Rachie was not appreciating it quite as much. We learned that food poisoning while pregnant is ten times worse. She hasn't been able to keep anything down. I feel pretty helpless. I went and did some research on Baby Bump and am now just trying to keep her hydrated. Water, gatorade, vitamin water, and orange juice. She is feeling better but still struggling. We are laying in bed watching The Price Is Right and making fun of the contestants. She is laughing at my blog post so she must be feeling a little better.

Augh. Too bad I was so sick for our last full day. I blew a couple blood vessels on my eye. Yuck.

Our last morning I felt much better. My wonderful hubby took excellent care of me and our baby. We spent our last morning with Schmidts at the pool, soaking up the last rays.

Dad picked us up at the airport last night, first time not getting searched!

Thank you to Dad for looking after the dogs, fish, flower shop and our house while we were away. It was a huge relief to know he is here keeping an eye on things. (Like keeping Sara out of doggy jail)

Nice to be home.

Week 23 complete.

Definitely seans baby. As soon as this kid hears the noise of the buffet he starts kicking in anticipation.

Today we went out on the cool runnings tour. Started with a bus trip to ocho rios with ken on bus 430. Ken fancied himself a dj of sorts and entertained us with local insights and sexy jamaican music about booties and big bamboo. I liked the rum and redbull song too.

The cool.running catamaran was a big boat which they piled with people looking for a good time. The sun was unrelenting as horde upon horde of people came down the pier. We weren't underway for long before the heavens opened up and it poured! Everyone scurried inside, leaving sean and I alone with the deck to ourselves. It was warm rain, so why not?

We anchored near the reef and we jumped in and fought the current and crashing waves to enjoy the aqualife. The reef wasn't very healthy but we did see a nice variety of fish before it got way too crowded. Poor Sean was pushed onto the rocks a couple times.

Back on board and cruised to dunns river falls. It was a lot of fun. The fresh water felt so good. It poured rain the entire time we were climbing the falls, so much for the people who opted to stay dry. We slid down into deep pools, fell backward into pools, and climbed up as a big human chain. A couple from edmonton was on their Babymoon too. Due may 19. Funny.

The cruise back was a booze cruise. The catamaran crashed along the huge swells as rum soaked bikini clad folks danced and lurched on the dock.

Home with 5 minutes to spare for our spanish dinner reservations. Wow. It was amazing presentation, delicious food and superb service. Baby loves fine dining and the whole day in general.

Now, to sleep.

Dreams

Woke up in the night a couple times, all in a panic about the flower shop. What needs to be done when we get back, things I forgot to do before we left. Oh well.

Schmidt's arrived tuesday night. Rye was so content for hours yesterday playing bar tender. He poured cups of water back and forth while standing shin deep in the pool. He's gonna take over the tastings when he's older apparently.

Little babes is still super active and often interactive with us. We are 23 weeks along and my uterus is as big as a soccer ball! Baby is mango sized which makes no sense since last week she was as big as a spaghetti squash.??

Baby is the size of a spaghetti squash

Little monkey was making me feel nauseous this morning. We had some growlies and headed down the long stretch of Beach to the nude area again. Here baby B was playing knock knock with me. It would kick, and I would press the same.spot with my fingers, and he/she would kick back. This went on for a while. Sean could watch my tummy to see it move whenever the baby responded to my prods. That was cool.

We were sitting on the edge of ocean waves, naked. The sun was intensely shining down on us as we enjoyed the cool waves lapping over us. I felt something on my leg. I looked and there was a crab on leg - pinching me! Made me a little more paranoid since I was sitting in the sand bare assed.

It rains almost every morning and clears off by late morning. We are trying to figure out which tour we want to do, but we can't decide...

Nude Beach

Sorry, no pictures! It was quiet and secluded in the nude area. With the exception of a fee weirdos who wandered in with their drinks for a peep show. didn't even burn our white bits too much.

Discovered that Malt Drinks are really gross. They were non alcoholic, so I thought they might be a nice treat. No! Don't do it! Gag

I inquired about the cost of a fishing trip. I should change professions. $800 for a partial day of fishing. Wow. I think we'll talk to some of our local friends (barkeeps, grounds keepers) and see who they know who might have a boat. Yikes.

We went into ocho rios today. Saw some pretty nice looking horse flesh tethered to the roadside. Apparently they have horses big enough for sean to ride here.;)  Stocked up on sunscreen, fruit, gross malt drinks, and a few trinkets from the market shops. The locals are really warm and funny. Everyone tried to sell sean all kinds of drugs. We found scotiabank RBC and credit union banks here. Funny. The girl who was supposed to escort us around while we shopped (seriously! Weird huh) we gave her the afternoon off and we went by ourselves.  We joked around with her before returning to the resort and she gave us a onesie and a bib for the baby. Aw! She refused a tip too. Good people!

Supper was italian tonight. I was so tired i barely noticed. I'm pretty sure the food was good tho. Good night!

Gourmet Dinner

Oooh, the gourmet restaurant on the resort was a delight. We almost ruined our soup, as a largely empty bowl was
placed in front of us with a pinch of mashed potato with a garnish of bacon.  We were about to dig when the waiter returned and poured our wild mushroom cappaccino soup in around the spuds. Cool. Sean had some yummy salmon tar tare and I had crunchy shrimp. The presentation was awesome and the flavors devine. I even had flambe fruit for dessert.

Enjoyed some ambiance and drinks al fresco listening to reggae on the terrace. The breeze was cool and the parade of people provided good entertainment. Sean and kept making each other laugh with silly antics while baby kicked and enjoyed itself too.

Great day.

Finally arrived in Runaway Bay

After only a couple hours of sleep the flight seemed endless, tho it was an hour late.  At the Mo Bay airport I planned to take $400 out with an atm, and ended up taking out a mere $4. Oops. Jamaica is pretty and warm and our hotel is huge and fabulous. Left home at 415am, arrived at our hotel room around 630/7pm.

this is the view from our balcony. Its 30 degrees, cruise ships are sailing past and I had a lovely sleep last night. Ah. Spending 2 weeks in 1 room seems like a.long time. I was interested to discover how different tourists are vs travelers. All inclusive resorts draw tourists. Some were loud, arrogant, and obviously here to feel like lordly kings. Sean and I couldn't wait to get off the shuttle bus and far away from these people. Oh amd sean ran into people from yorkton already! They weren't jerks tho.

Baby was very active yesterday during the flight, bus ride, dinner. Running laps around the womb I swear.  Mmm love those ocean waves lapping at the shore.  Can't wait to explore today.

in dolphin bay

Rain was glorious and cool this morning. Later the sun came out and we turned just a twinge of pink. The grounds are so pretty and lush. They were mowing the lawns and the smell of fresh cut grass was like a gift from the tropics as little blades of grass tossed in the salty sea air. Love.

our baby likes jerk chicken and lazing in the sun. He/she did not appreciate the boring 3 hour sales pitch for becoming Privelage Members.

I think tomorrow were gonna venture out somewhere and see some real Jamaica. It's been a relaxing first 2 days now. :) As I type this, I am watching freighters and cruise ships sailing on the calmer seas. Today it was sunny with a couple bouts of light rain. Very nice.

sean and I thought we'd include some bump pics too.

Babymoon!

Were 22 weeks pregnant and it's jan 1 2013; and we're about to board our plane to Jamaica!  Last night we dinged in the new year with Dad, Jenny and the Schmidts at our place. We played Seans new board game which had us laughing our butts off.

2013 is looking pretty darn good so far. ;)