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Hey Ladies!
I am finally back form my very long, fun, yet, exhausting 2 week vacation!
What's new around here? Any new pregnancy announcements (Kernal?!) 
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Re: Hey Ladies!
Vacation was....interesting.
Let's start with Newark airport and how I will never ever ever fly out of there again. Our flight was delayed for 3 hours (ok, not their fault), then they switched our departing gate 4 different times. We had to lug all of our crap all over the damn airport. Once we got on the flight, Bella cried and cried and cried. Then I cried. And at around 2am we finally arrived in Puerto RIco.
First hotel was nice. A short bus trip away from Old San Juan. We did some sight seeing all over Old San Juan and visited the 2 big forts. Weather was hot and sticky but luckily no rain!
Sunday we boarded the cruise. Monday we went to Magen's Bay in St. Thomas which was gorgeous. We got to swim for an hour then a storm started. Tuesday was a fun day at sea and luckily the captain circled in nice weather. Wednesday was the wedding day. Drama, drama, rain, nice weather for ceremony, rain, drama drama. Thursday was St. Lucia. Got to swim for an hour then it rained. Friday was St. Kitts. Rain. Saturday was ST. Maarten which was nice. It still rained but at that point we didn't give a feck and stayed in the water. Sunday we docked in PR again and it was raining. surprise surprise. Monday( July 4th) we flew back and Bella slept most of the flight (THank God!) . There was a lot of turbulence due to all of the storms and I friggin broke down. I hate to fly and I literally got jostled out of my seat because it was so darn bad.
Overall it was a nice vacation, but traveling with that much family was a ginormous headache. I mostly hung out with David and the kids and we did our own thing which was ok by me. One thing we learned was that we will never ever ever cruise with kids again unless they are all teenagers.
Bella developed a new stranger danger phobia and was completely obsessed with me the entire trip. She needed to be on me 100% all the time and if she wasn't, she screamed. She actually screamed the entire ceremony. fun times. Is it bad that I need a vacation from my vacation?
I'll post some pictures soon for those that aren't my FB friend.
Lots of pics of people.
Bella's 1st plane ride.
Me in my matron of honor dress
Chase was the ring bearer and sooo cute in his tux
My family
Bride and Groom
Formal night on the cruise ship
And an attempt to look "hot and sexy" while feeling like a beached whale on vacation. You should see the size 0 stick figures that were with us and were bridesmaids.
Rocking the 24 week bump belly pic
Chase with the monkeys. He loved these tings.
My boys
Bella rocking the bikini
And last but not least, what's a vacation without inappropriate pictures.
in my defense, these mermaid nips followed me everywhere. i swear i almost got poked in the eye with one.
Me and the boys at one of the forts in Old San Juan.
Our Boat
Waterslide on the boat
Magen's Bay, St. Thomas
St. Lucia
St. Maarteen
LOVE the pictures! And you look radiant in that blue dress! Sorry to hear that the trip was exhausting. Someday when the kids are grown you'll look back and laugh.
I love those monkeys with Chase. What island were they on?
hahaha...no can do Tammy! Sorry
(well not really)
My little nuggets
Thanks ladies. I was definitely nervous about the bikini especially with all the size 0's around me,but at the end of the day, DH thought I looked good, I felt good and to avoid direct belly sight, I stayed in the water a lot. LOL
Monkey's were at St. Kitts. I think that was the most aggressive islands. The people and cab/tour drivers were realllly out of control. Police kept pushing them back and they were like voulchers trying to get you into your cab. One guy grabbed my arm and started pulling me towards his cab saying he was going to take me to the hospital to have my baby. Very scary.
I have to run into a meeting now, but will be sure to elaborate on the drama that is still occuring when I get back.
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