Marni's sunrises

Marni has been waking up early and getting some great pictures of sunrises off the back deck.



Apparently this happens each day - you just gotta be up at that hour.

Marni's big adventure continues - Sunday

Marni is still waking up super early but a little bit later and later each day, we are making progress.

I got up and found her on the deck sorting the shells that she has found on her beach walks - she had them nicely lined up by species ...



Then Marni and I went off to the Theater of the Sea. Great place not far from where we live that has parrot, dolphin, and sea lion shows and fantastic mangroves and other lush flora (Marni knew lots of the flowers and plants from the species in the Biology Link :)).



This is a funny boat that is a 'bottom-less' boat, people sit around the sides and you toot up a lagoon and one of the dolphins joins along and does a couple of tricks in the middle of the boat as we are moving along through the water.






We finished the day by taking the kids and going for dinner at the Islamorada Fish Company where she clearly was enjoying her 'Pirate's Painkiller" drink :).



Took some pushing form me but Marni put her hand up to get a kiss from a sea lion!

Marni Turnbull - historic visit

An historic event is unfolding here in Florida - Marni Turnbull is visiting from UNB - she is someone that has just NEVER taken a break and never taken a vacation.

I will try and document this event as best as I can, but I also have to spend my time making sure she does not spend much time without a drink in her hand and is doing something unrelated to work... it is a rough job but I am up for the challenge!

It is TOUGH! She will not leave our dishes alone, we are true believers in air drying and leaving them in the rack, sit down Marni.... seriously.



She had been waking up super early (that internal alarm clock needs to be shut off) but we made significant progress today when she took her watch off after realizing that it DID NOT MATTER what time it is....

Her first big adventure was accompanying me to the hospital with Daniel who needed some glue to put his chin back together (Daniel is fine and giggled and laughed through the alcohol cleaning and the should-have-stung glue process) - and so I had to up my game today and we spent lots of time walking up and down the beach collecting shells and then made her a margarita.



I am happy to report to all of those Marni supporters out there that I have in fact witnessed what can only be described as "relaxing" by Marni - and the boys are loving playing with her :)

Here is Marni with her first time playing the Wii - finally getting the hang of bowling. (she didn't know I was taking a video...)



She is very happy and there is a fairly good chance that she will make sure she misses the flight home - but we are fine with that.