Sunday, February 14, 2010

St Thomas 2010

The green eyed monster made another appearance, on his way back from the M* states (MT, MN, MI) to NJ.   This is Zach making sure his nose is not too close to the monster.  For fear of it passing gas, you want to keep the offending orifice at least an arms length away:

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Unfortunately, I was not aware of this rule.  This is the beast making sure his human slave packs the car correctly.  I was an convenient ladder to the window:

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I got a new chair.   I replace Nick’s old $500 ultimate office chair with a $20 ball chair.  It enforces good posture, and encourages me not to sit still for too long.  If you ever video skype me, you will likely see a bobbing head.  Helen saw the bouncing Bruce having so much fun, she got one also.

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Se spent 10 days in St Thomas.   I went from maximum 6 layer Syracuse insulation mode:

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to minimum 0.1 layer St Thomas insulation mode in < 12 hours:

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We read books.  A lot.  We read in the sun:

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We read in the shade:

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We read in the water:

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And some of us sillier ones read in our sleep:

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And we swam.  A lot.  I practice my newly acquired crawl, swimming the circumference of the bay 5 -> 10 times a day:

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In addition to the pretty fish, we saw a bunch of turtles, a couple of sting rays, and a couple of 4 foot barracudas.   Probably the same barracuda … we didn’t ask him what his name was.

Helen found, fed, and fhotographed a real green eyed monster:

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Aya and her boyfriend Omarie came for 4 days:

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They had a contest to see who could keep their eye open the longest before blinking.  Me and my dry eyes were too terrified to remember who won:

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This is Aya teaching Omarie how to juggle:

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And finally, Aya photographed this is a couple she found on our porch.  I’m not sure what they are doing, but looks like they are having fun:

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