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We are home. We are home after a 16 day vacation in the Bahamas. Yes, life is hard. We had an amazing time diving, fishing, body surfing (I was declared champion in the final round), shelling, spear fishing, and spending quality time as a family. The first half of the vacation was spent on Hope Town Island in the outer Abaco Islands. I LOVE this place, we have been visiting their since I was in my early teens. The island is only about 12- 18 miles long (depending on where you start measuring) and has only a few thousand year round residents. We have no cell phone or computer coverage so it is true vacation. Our days looked like this
1. Wake up to sunrise overlooking the ocean. I would go for a long run, the kids would play random games around the adults as they drank coffee, made breakfast and talked news and etc.
2. Head out the back door for the long 25 yd walk down the porch steps into the sand of our own beach where we would body surf, boogie board and build awesome sand castles.
3. Back inside for a rinse, lunch and a nap (adults included)
4. Back outside to repeat step 2.
5. Back inside to rinse, make dinner from the fresh fish, lobster and conch we caught that day. Baths. After dinner games of UNO, Zingo, or a short walk to the ice cream shop.
6. Bed

some days instead of the beach we would spend the snorkeling the national reefs. We saw AMAZING fish, sharks, HUGE starfish, coral...we would fish a lot (Pace caught the most) and then spear whatever we could. We would pack lunches, snooze on the boat, find other islands to picnic on...

It was a blast, I am counting down the 365 days until next year!