Vacation favorites!

So of course the best part of vacation was not having access to my work voicemail or email for a full week, but some of my other favorites were:

The island (and the reef) about 150 feet off the beach of our resort. There's just something really fun about walking through the water to get to a little island that you can hang out on all day.

All the fun fish swimming around the reef (and having a waterproof camera to take underwater pictures with.)

The beautiful sunsets.

The beach, the sun, the sand, the warmth.

Hanging out with Allyson for a week! (and climbing Dunns River Falls which was way fun!)

The random Jamaica inspired Cubs hat at one of the stores.

Doing some makeshift snorkeling with my underwater camera.

And my least favorite part of the trip was getting a major sunburn on our last day there because it was about 70 degrees outside, very breezy and completely cloud covered. I had a long sleeved shirt and pants on, so thankfully the rest of me was fine, but the raccoon eyes definitely got me some looks on our way home!

Fondue Fun

I'm not sure why, but I take a strange pleasure in introducing Lily to my favorite foods. Before I left for vacation, Ryan and I went over to Carl and Kathleen's for dinner and some babysitting while they went car shopping. I was in charge of dessert and had a great time doing a make-shift chocolate fondue. Lily first insisted to me that she didn't like melted chocolate, but once I pulled out all the supplies she countered with "OK, let's have some of this first, but then I have a list of games for us to play."

The spread. Strawberries, pineapple, bananas, pretzels, melted chocolate and the extra special whipped cream topping. I think Lily would eat absolutely anything if it had whipped cream on top.

Going in for the dip.

Her creation.

We rounded out our evening by playing tag, painting her toes and finally settling down for a movie.