The Island, mon

The Island, mon

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

A WinAir flight and a swim meet later...

...I'm pretty much pooped. In St. Maarten, we had a totally huge (small..hugely small) swim meet. The teams there were from St. Barths, St. Kitts, St. Maarten, Antigua and another unknown island. It was WAY fun!!! I swam the 800m Freestyle in 11:43:09, a record time on my part, and came in second. The girl who beat me, only beat me by a second. The three girls that I beat, got out of the pool and were pretty mad that a white girl had beat them! They were all like "White girl don't beat us black girls! It jus don' 'appen!" and I was all like "Girl, this white chick beat cha!" and then she was like "Oh no you did't" and I was like "Girl, you know I did". So yeah...
After the meet, Naomi, Tina and I checked in at our hotel; the Royal Turtle Inn. Cute lil' place. Their pool was about the size of our bedroom (like five feet by five feet). They had monkeys, parrots that could talk and a lobster tub. It looked like a zoo! In the morning, we went shopping for stuff that Aunt Laura had requested: pretzels, salsa, cheese, lunch meat, peanut butter and the like. We also walked up and down the boardwalk and went shopping at the little boutiques along the way. I got Charles and Sophia key chains that change color in the sun at a place called Del Sol. At four, they dropped me off at the airport and I took a WinAir flight home. When we landed, Charles ran up and jumped on me and wrapped all of his limbs around me and put his head on my shoulder. He pretty much screamed my name in the airport. He's so cute!!!! When I told him about the pretzels that I brought home, his face lit up! When we got home, I unpacked all of my goodies and Connely's eyes got really wide when I pulled out the meat! It was pretty hilarious.

4 comments:

  1. P.S. I got a silver medal in the 800m Freestyle and a gold medal in the 200m Butterfly!!!

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  2. Way to go Frances :) We still miss you tons! I can't wait until you get back.

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  3. Frances,
    Great job!!! Fun to do that, and shop too. You have a great day and tell A. Laura hi.
    Love Aunt Frances #1.

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  4. Aunt Frances #1 Thanks! Laura says HEYA CHICA! love Aunt Frances #2

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