Travel Day

This was one of those rare trips where we not only purchased tickets for our flight, but we flew on a different airline.  Delta doesn't fly to Curacao, so we flew American.  To be honest, it is probably a good thing Delta doesn't fly to Curacao, because if they did, I would want to go there every month.  Or every time there were open seats.  I'd probably want to buy a house there.  Can you tell we love Curacao?

Dear moms, always take the silly photo. They will only be 7 for a little while.

A brief word about the house we rented.  It had this lovely pool.  It had an amazingly lush backyard with a play set for the kids.  It had really good reviews on VRBO.  Well, they must delete the bad reviews, because it was not what we expected.  But I blame myself, really.  When they said "air conditioned bedrooms" I should have known that meant only in the bedrooms.  

But I can deal with a lack of air conditioning, because its the Caribbean! There's a nice breeze!  True.  But the house didn't have actual windows, just plantation shutters with lots of gaps that let in all the mosquitos along with breeze.  Anne and I were so miserable.  We couldn't even sit out by that lovely pool because there were soooo many mosquitoes.  When we planned this vacation we imagined ourselves putting the kids to bed and having a glass of wine outside.  I could only do it when wearing long pants and long sleeves, and then they bit my face!  Never again!

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