I GOT CRABS!

Hello, friends! I'm sorry it's been so long since I've last updated! Time is going by too fast here and I can't believe I have to leave this gorgeous and amazing place in a week and a half! I'm not ready!

Anyway, this past week has been filled with lots of random activities! Jeff and I realized that we only have six days left together (days he doesn't have to work) so we're going to try and fit as much stuff in as we can! But I'll get to that later. I'm sure you want to know all about the crab races!


On Wednesday, Jeff got off work at around 2 and we got ready to go to the crab races! The crab races are held at the Divi Carina hotel and casino.  We went with another pilot that Jeff knows and his girlfriend.  They go every Wednesday and are hooked!

So we get to the crab races and I had no idea what to expect.  Basically, you go up to the people that run the raceuts, Tito and Sue, and you pay $2 a crab.  (They find the crabs every two weeks, use them for the crab races and then release them.  They're just small hermit crabs that you can find all over the island!)  You get to pick out which crab(s) you want and then name them. Jeff and I bought $10 worth of crabs/5 crabs and then his friends gave us some too, so we had 8 crabs overall.  Here were there amazing names: Nigel, Sheena, Christmas, Commander Muffin Top, Forrest, It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere, Clinton, and Shelly. So Sue and Tito put the crabs into two buckets and flip the buckets so that they can be easily lifted up. The crabs just have to cross the finish line and the first two that cross it get taken out and put into the finals.  It's absolutely hilarious! Sue plays the kazoo to start the race and then the buckets are lifted and the crabs are off! 

Four of our crabs were winners and made it to the finals! Nigel, Christmas, Sheena and Forrest were ROCKSTARS! We ended up winning a bunch of cool free stuff! We won a round of mini golf, a kayak tour, a gift certificate to a restaurant, and tickets to a buffet/show at one of the other hotels! If you think about it, we paid ten dollars and won all of that fun stuff! Needless to say, I want to go every week! It's hilarious! Here are some of the pictures of the crab races!

Sue starting the races!

All of the crabs!

The final eight crabs! (We had 4 in the finals!)

On Thursday, I didn't do much! (I'm totally okay with that!) I took Jeff to work bright and early and set out to run some errands on my own. I went to KMart and Plaza (the grocery store) which was a pretty big deal because I'm still a little nervous here when it comes to driving. Not much else to report for Thursday.  I made dinner and picked up Jeff. A nice, quiet, relaxing day! :)

On Friday, we slept in and then headed to the beach! We ended up taking both of the puppies, Christmas and Diesel, and they had a great time! We threw some Coronas and snacks into the cooler and just hung out all day! So relaxing and much needed! Here is a picture of Christmas with my sunglasses.  She wasn't as into it as we were!

We thought it was a lot funnier than she did!

Saturday was a pretty lazy day, too. We just hung out at home.  We were scheduled to do a sunset sail, but they didn't have enough people, so we got rescheduled to a different day.  We decided to get some lunch and do some shopping. I ended up having a little too much of the rum punch and went home and was asleep by 6:30pm. Jeff and Kevin went out for gyros and were kind enough to bring me some home. (I didn't wake up until much later, I guess I just can't hang.)

On Sunday, we went to Angry Nate's for breakfast.  This place is on the boardwalk which is right by Fort Christianstead.  Jeff and I had a lot of fun walking around and Jeff played tour guide since they were out of brochures.  It was really cool!  After we got our history lesson, we decided to go to one of the hotels, Tamarind Reef, and do some snorkeling.  When I was here for Spring Break, Jeff and I went to Tamarind Reef and did some kayaking. You can go from the hotel's beach and go to a little island, Green Cay, and walk around on that little island.  We decided to just snorkel on this trip though.  We had a great time! There were so many fish that were just beautiful!! AND WE SAW A SEA TURTLE!!! Obviously, the highlight of the snorkeling trip. (I think I'm good luck for seeing turtles because the last time we went snorkeling we saw a turtle...but that's just me.) We had dinner at the Deep End restaurant and stayed on the beach until sunset. It was the perfect way to end the weekend!

The view from Fort Christiandstead!

A fun fish we saw at Tamarind Reef!

Look at this beautiful guy!!

Shout Out to Jeff for these amazing underwater pictures!

On Monday I didn't do much.  We hung out at home before Jeff had to go to work.  Unfortunately, Jeff realized on a drive in his car, that the brakes weren't working so well.  He finished his day at work and made it home safe.  Not much to report on that, but just glad that he made it home safe and the car went to the shop the next day!

On Tuesday, we took Jeff's car to the shop.  (Cross your fingers it'll get fixed soon!) After that, we went back to Angry Nate's for breakfast. (I might be a little addicted.) We went home and Jeff got ready for work.  I stayed home and caught up on some Netflix.  Nicole (one of the other pilot's girlfriend) invited me to go out for dinner and drinks.  We ended up going with another pilot that's staying with them.  We went to Coconut's, which is in Fredrickstead and right on the beach.  I told Jeff that we were going there and on his last flight home, he flew right over the spot we were and had to show off. (Typical boy, right?) I have to admit though, it was pretty cool to see the CapeAir plane and actually know who's flying that thing. We had a great time watching the sunset and Jeff met up with us after he got off work.  We headed to this amazing pizza place, The Lost Dog.  We had awesome pizza and played darts.  It was a great night!

Wednesday I took Jeff to work at the lovely hour of 5:30am.  I dropped him off, came home and took Christmas on a walk.  (We needed some bonding time.) Then I came home and hung out and caught up on chores. 

Christmas is ready to go for her walk!

The view from our walk!

Later, I picked up Jeff and we decided to meet up with Nicole and Brendan to do the Cruzan Rum Tour...again.  It's free and they give you alcohol for free...how can you say no?! We had a great time, as always, and stopped for some french fries at our new favorite place to stop after we go to Cruzan.  I'm officially in love with Cruzan rum and I'm going to bring so much home!! (It's only eight bucks here for a fifth! Can you believe that?!)

After we went to Cruzan, we came home and got ready.  Jeff took me out to a really fancy and wonderful dinner at a restaurant called Savant. We sat outside in the courtyard and had a delicious meal with yummy wine! And if I do say so myself, very romantic. (I found a keeper here, folks!) Here are some pictures (not taken by me) of where we went to dinner.

We ate out here! So beautiful!

On the agenda for this weekend: Hiking the tide pools, Sunset Sail, brunch with the beer drinking pigs, and much, much more! Stay tuned! I promise to update earlier next week! :) Love to you all!