Vacation in MN away from my Vacation in Eleuthera!

I took a vacation from my vacation and spent two weeks in MN in April to do Amelia's 4th Birthday party, she requested a Super Hero/Princess cake, so..... TA DA!  Grammy figured it out, Super Heroes on one side, the Princesses on the other, we had Superman carrying Jasmine and a few other oddities, Spiderman dangling from the chandelier with a princess in his arms.

Just off the plane returning to Eluethrs and Bob stops at LaFleurs vegetable market, I had fresh coconut milk, some mini bananas and met some new friends!

A fresh pineapple ready to pick...and we did!  The Eleuthra pineapples are SO SWEET and they have a serrated leaf, and even better...don't cut the core out...it is entirely edible, sweet and soft enough to enjoy!  We fry pineapple lightly to serve with fish.

Once back on Veda L Buddy immediately sat on my suitcase and gave me a "don't you dare leave me again" look

I had been admiring this mans vegetable garden along the sea, so finally stopped to chat, he has a house across the way but e prefers living in his little "house" along the water, he was repairing lobster pots.

He was very sweet and let me take many photos around his property, I promised him that I would bring him copies of the photos that I had taken....and I did!  He particularly loved the photo below of his cat, which I told him I named Half & Half.

Easy to see why this kitty was named Half & Half by me... plus we had a cat that was very similar to this one when we lived on the farm as children...  the cats name.... Half & Half of course!

Here is the vegetable garden by the sea that made me stop to visit.... What a life to live just being happy with what he has.  An outlook to be envied by most of us.

My Mother's Day Miracle....  I was walking along a stone wall bordering a cemetery;  a car stopped and asked me if I was there to look for somebodies grave, "No, I am just here taking some photos of this ancient burial ground" The cemetery was from the 1600's  to present.   They asked me something else and I said "wait till traffic clears and I will come over"  so I walked across the road and noticed that they were holding instruments, the passenger a guitar, the driver a harmonica; of course I had to ask "who ARE you guys with musical instrument, driving around?"  They said that they had just come back from a rehearsal and could they play me a song.  Come on.... do I really get this lucky to be walking along a cemetery wall and then have two Bahamian guys stop to serenade me?    OF COURSE I DO!   What made this really special is that this was the day before Mother's Day, of course my Mom was on my mind even though she has been gone for over  3 years.  

We are going to play a song that we love... "It's a beautiful World"  so,  they get out of the car, and start playing along the sea wall....the song that was played at my Mother's funeral "It's a beautiful world"  A song she related to as it spoke of nature, children and of all the beauty of the world.  My Mother never had much, but she was so much richer than so many as she had the riches of the world and love from all that knew her.

We were behind this truck...keeping our distance, we watched them as they backed into a yard, slowly, then hit the brakes hard to slide all the lumber off the truck.  Ingenious ... maybe a little dangerous... but ingenious!

This was my welcome back to Eleuthera dive...conch, lobster, beautiful underwater seascapes...really happy!

my seaside serenades.... I invited them to visit us at the Marina; so Bob got out his banjo and though the music was not top notch, it was full f  feeling and new friendship!  The tall guy is a high school  music teacher.

This is Xanthia, Glen's Daughter, who we have nicknamed "Baby Girl"  She is adorable and surely has fun visiting Papa Glen!  We were having a turtle hunt that day...not to catch, except on film.  Not too successful but fun!

This is the "public" beach near Davis Harbour where we snorkeled to find turtles, not too many of "the public" have discovered it .... fortunately for us...unfortunately for them!