Anyway, what was so nice about the trip was that his grandparents had vacationed there many times before and they took us around the islands as our tour guides. They showed us the best local Restaurants and Coffee Shops, and we stayed in the best Hotels on the islands. We were so impressed at how friendly everybody seemed to be, and we wondered if it was a genuine friendliness or simply “part of the job.” I’d like to think that it was genuine friendliness, but that is something I’d definitely want more information on if we ever decided to move there (which is a huge fantasy of mine!) Living on a tropical island is definitely something I’d love to do!

I’m not completely sure, but it seems to me that they bake a cake (or brownies) then use a melon baller to scoop out balls of cake (or brownie) and then poke them with a skewer and drizzle icing over them. They are cute and tasty. Have you made any of them yourself?

I’ve tried loading the Chrome browser because I heard that it runs faster than IE on the Windows application that I have, but I still get those stupid pop up windows. With Mozilla Firefox, however, those windows don’t pop up and it runs fine. I guess the best thing to do is to just stick with Firefox, but that makes me sad because I’ve used IE for such a long time that I was comfortable with it. I really did not want to switch to something else. Anyone else out there know what might be going on with IE?

I don’t even know enough about London to know if there ARE any short term rental London Apartments available near those types of places! So I would definitely be wanting some of my cousins to show us around and take us to their favorite local places that are NOT the usual tourist traps, but we’d want to see the famous tourist things as well. We’d probably have to stay there a couple of weeks to take it all in. Sadly, with the economy the way it is, and our personal financial struggles getting in the way, our trip to London may just always be an unfulfilled dream. Wouldn’t it be nice if our ship came in and it was the Queen Elizabeth II?

I’ve never tried cheesecake with the wine, but I think that would be awesome as well. Next time I go grocery shopping I think I’ll have to buy an individual slice of cheesecake to bring home and give that a try. I have to be really careful, though, I don’t want to gain any extra weight!

When Jason was living in The Netherlands two years ago I gave him one of my credit cards to use so that we would not have to deal with any form of international money transfer if he needed money. He did use it a couple of times, and I saw that there was a small surcharge on the credit card bill for the exchange rate, but it was all good; the convenience was well worth it. Sometimes I just wish that there was a common currency world-wide so we didn’t have to bother our “pretty little heads” over things like that. That sounds lazy, I know.