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Canary Islands in a nutshell

CANARY ISLANDS IN A PICTURE:

MOST CHEAP COST-CONSCIOUS MOMENT OF THE TRIP: While John was accidentally ordering a 13 Euro daiquiri (somewhere John’s Spanish classes failed him and his order of vodka tonic turned into a daiquiri), I channeled my mother. One of John’s first memories of my mother is when he was over hanging out and she rounded all of us up and piled us in the car to drive 20 minutes to the Farm Fresh where there was a sale on soft drinks. The catch was that it was only one per customer…so this is when having a big family and John came in handy…yup she gave each of us $10 and a shopping cart and let me tell you…we beat that system:) Fast forward 15 years…to get to use the spa if you weren’t getting a service you had to pay 35 euros. So I took a look at the services and there was a haircut for 32 euros….guess who got a haircut…

* Somewhere I can see my dad shaking his head horrified that this trait was passed down

MOST INTERESTING WAY TO SAVE A BEACH CHAIR:

* John would like everyone to know that topless is not always better….after seeing some topless water aerobics he was definitely traumatized.

JOHN’S FAVORITE PART OF THE TRIP: Relaxing! Adam told us to enjoy our sleep while we can and we definitely did that….averaging a solid 11 hours a night plus naps at the pool…not too shabby!

CAROLINE’S FAVORITE PART OF THE TRIP: Relaxing! We know our life is about to be turned upside down so we really tried to soak up every second of the trip.

It really was the perfect lazy beach vacation. Big thanks to Barb for all the free stuff (you know I like a freebie)….flowers, champagne, wine….it was great…well John might not thank you for having to drink it by himself…just kidding…he learned his lesson from the wedding…maybe;)

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  • Vicki September 22, 2011, 2:53 am

    Jealous! Looks like you had an AWESOME time. And you really will be glad you got the sleep now!! Now that I’ve seen a couple pics, I say girl (although I obviously wasn’t very good with my own I’m usually right for other people, I guess we’ll see in a few months!). I’ll be emailing you some new Ronan pics in the next few days.

  • Kathy September 22, 2011, 10:57 pm

    Vicki says girl, I’m still sticking with a boy 😉

    Love your vacation spot! Glad you got lots of R&R—baby will be here sooner than you know!

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