Mon. 4/20 - Sun. 4/26

Monday was Mark's big first semester final!! It was 191 questions and over 4 hours long! It sounded torturous! They won't find out their scores until NEXT Monday. Which is torture on it's own. I went to a restaurant called The Tomato to have breakfast with a bunch of ladies as a goodbye/baby shower for a gal who is leaving the island. She has twin boys and is pregnant. She was told it was a girl but then told it's a boy. We wore blue in support of baby boy #3! It was nice to socialize and be able to run away from dishes and laundry for the morning.

When Mark was done with his test around 4pm he looked fried and was ready to go snorkeling. He just bought a pole spear/Hawaiian sling. Or as I call it, "fish killing thing".  He was anxious to test it out. He did kill a fish. Unfortunately, it was a puffer fish which is poisonous to eat. The kids and I hung out at the family lounge and watched TV while he was gone.

When he returned we walked up to The Tomato for dinner to celebrate Daddy finishing the semester. We were pretty disappointed at the cost vs. the amount of food. Regardless, we had a nice time going to a restaurant. There were signed pictures of the actors Orlando Bloom and Johnny Depp.

After dinner it was Kari's turn to go with Daddy to Swirls. She was thrilled!

Tuesday morning Mark was off to the sea again to snorkel.

Wednesday morning Mark and I borrowed our friend's kayak and left Emma with a friend while the other kids were at school. We were planning to take the kayak to a place called Secret Beach but it was windy enough and far enough that we were afraid the way back might be miserable. We ended up taking the kayak to PBH and snorkeled there. At first I felt it was kind of lame because we have been to PBH so many times BUT I had NEVER snorkeled. Ever ever ever. I told Mark I didn't think I would last more then 2 minutes. I was afraid of breathing with the snorkel and mask and wasn't sure I would do well swimming around for very long. Once we got flippers on and swam out to the reef I was fascinated!! 2 hours later we went back to the kayak for a snack and to put away some sand dollars. We should have reapplied sunscreen then... I ended up burning my back pretty good but of course didn't realize it until later. Oops!

We found some teeny tiny sand dollars that were incredibly fragile!! 

Thursday while the kids went to the beach during school Mark and I walked around to find a place to each lunch. We ended up going in to a Chinese restaurant called Hope. Afterwards, it was my turn (and Emma's) to go to Swirls with Daddy.

Friday I was excited to finally get the chance to take Mark to Bense pool!!! He loved it like I knew he would. He enjoyed doing back flips off the cliff.

The fines on this tree looked so cool.

Our tour guide Serge carefully picked up this crab to show us.

This is the natural water slide. The cliff we typically jump off of is on the right. Some do jump on the left side but it's a few feet higher and you have to jump out a bit further to be sure to clear the rocks.

Saturday was the MOST productive Saturday EVER!!! We all worked together and were able to sweep and mop our entire apartment among other cleaning. That's the stuff my dreams are made of!! Haha!

Poor Emma had a fever. Thankfully we had medicine for her. She was a pretty good sport.

Mark and Isaac went snorkeling. Afterwards they went to Swirls. Isaac said it was the best night of his whole life. :)

Sunday~ Emma still has a fever so I am home with her while everyone else went to church. I am trying to catch up on blogging a little. (I'll always be behind!)