Irish Twins

We thought this would be a good year to introduce our own little bit of Ireland, our Irish twins, to St Patrick's day.  We covered ourselves in green and went off to the Irish 5k jog at Britannia golf course.  Emma applied herself as usual and soon had our double pushchair covered in shamrocks and green balloons.  Ellie and Alex were green leprechauns, including shamrocks painted on their faces. Coincidentally, they had learned all about shamrocks at school that morning.  We brought up the rear of the pack of over 1000 participants as Ellie insisted she had to walk and refused to get in the pushchair.  Ellie and I had a great time watching all the runners and walkers go by in the other direction.  Ellie waved at everyone, smelled all the flowers, and chatted to me nonstop.  A few hundred metres into the walk Alex spotted his long lost girlfriend and was off running after her with mum trying to keep up, and her friends. Eva is Alex's good friend from his last school and even though he hadn't seen her in many months, he spent the whole rest of the evening following after her.  Ellie finally did climb into the pushchair and we cut some corners, caught up with mum and Alex, and found the finish. We all had a great time walking, watching the stars come out, and seeing some old friends.  Alex told us he now loved Patrick and shamrocks so maybe their is some Irish in these little munchkins of ours!

It has been a busy week for us with lots of visitors from the States.  Last Friday, 19 March, my uncle Herman and aunt Patti arrived for a long weekend visit.  We had some lovely dinners by the water, the first night at Paradise and the second night at Breeze's.  On Saturday we all spent the morning at Rum Point and wandered through town in the evening before dinner on the patio at Breeze's.  Patrice had also flown in from NY on Friday and spent the weekend at the Westin.  The kids really enjoyed two trips to the airport on Friday.  Sunday we met Patrice for brunch by the beach at the Westin.  It was a lovely afternoon and even nicer that the champagne flows freely all through brunch.  We were all too full to do much more than lounge around the rest of the afternoon.  Herman and Patti flew out Monday morning while Emma and Patrice began the exhausting task of seeing the sights and lounging at Rum Point.  Patrice swam with the stingrays and they both went to Hell.  (Hell is a small town here on Cayman).  They also checked out St Pedro's castle and some of the shopping in town. Eric had a busy at week at work while Emma and Patrice ran themselves ragged.  Today was last day of classes for me before we go on our two week end of term break.  Our last day is a half-day trip to the beach to reward everyone for a busy and successful term.

Emma and I are rewarding ourselves, (or maybe its the kids) by jetting off to Disneyworld for 5 days on Saturday.  It will be our first family holiday where we are not visiting family.  The winds of change that have been swirling are soon to touch down and really mix things up.......