St. Kitts

We recently had our second family trip to St. Kitts. Our group this year was Mommy, Daddy, Jason, Mimi, Papaw, Aunt Sarah, Uncle Josh, and we were joined this year by Uncle Greg and Aunt Sandy. St. Kitts is such a beautiful island, and is still a bit on the undiscovered side, which makes it nice and not too crowded.

Unfortunately this year we had the terrible misfortune of being in an automobile accident, and had to send half of our group home early; Uncle Greg with a dislocated elbow and Aunt Sarah with a mouth injury that will require extensive oral surgery and braces. We are very fortunate, despite these injuries, that we all walked away, and are thankful that no one was hurt more seriously. We have been relieved to find out that Uncle Greg will not require surgery; and have been proud (but not really surprised) to witness Aunt Sarah's strength and positive attitude as she deals with a temporary liquid diet and multiple doctor's appointments.

After a couple of missteps, the resort staff was very helpful in assisting those of us that stayed for the remainder of the week, sort out things with the insurance company of the driver who caused the collision. We are very pleased that all medical expenses have thus far been reimbursed.

While Aunt Sarah and Uncle Greg have a long road to recovery ahead of them, we can look back now on the moments we did get to share on vacation together. We also look forward to future vacations together.

And now for some highlights (the good parts) from our vacation:

Dr. Seuss

The other day we had one of the XM Radio kids stations on in the car, and they played a reading of Dr. Seuss' "Green Eggs and Ham." You should have seen you Jason reacted! We have read this book together so many times that he has memorized many of the parts, and was chanting in unison with the audio version. Now whenever we get in the car he asks for "Green Eggs and Ham", so I knew I had to track down this recording. I did not find the exact same version, but I think I may have found something better. iTunes has readings by famous actors and I found "Green Eggs and Ham" read by Jason Alexander as well as "The Cat in the Hat" read by Kelsey Grammer. These are both great recordings, and it is so much fun to sit together and look through the book while listening to such expressive readings. I would definitely recommend them to anyone with kids who love Dr. Seuss!