Tag: caribbean
member name: Janna O'Donnell
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June 25, 2008 06:23 AM EDT --
We have some family visiting us from Sweden and we took them up to the Barbados Wildlife Reserve for the afternoon. We feel that you haven't truly experienced Barbados until you see our Green . . .
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March 04, 2008 10:34 AM EST --
Oddly enough although I have posted the photos on Gather and asked many people, the positive identification came through a book called Wild Places that I was reading with my 6 year old daughter for . . .
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March 01, 2008 10:33 AM EST --
The one thing we always do with every visitor who comes to see us on the island is to take that lucky soul on a catamaran cruise. Our children look forward to it and so do we. It's the . . .
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July 05, 2008 03:14 PM EDT --
We went on a wonderful island safari trip with our visitors from Sweden and when we stopped at Bathsheba beach, a gentleman with dreads was selling jewelry from a small suitcase. With him was his . . .
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August 29, 2007 09:21 PM EDT --
Most Americans know might know a little about Barbados, but that knowledge is usually limited to the beauty of the beaches. Some know that singing sensation, Rihanna, calls our shores home. . . .
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February 20, 2007 09:49 PM EST --
It was a school day today and we went along with our routine. We had breakfast on the patio that serves as our dining room and watched a couple of industrious bananaquits working at building . . .
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December 09, 2006 08:46 AM EST --
This is our second Christmas season on the island. The Christmas lights started appearing the evening of Independence Day (November 30th). Now every store has traditional Christmas songs and . . .
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November 20, 2006 11:52 AM EST --
All of you who thought we were living in an English
speaking country, I must correct your thinking. I
knew when a six year old girl at the pool here asked
me, "Do you speak English" after . . .
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December 10, 2006 08:28 PM EST --
We've been here for almost two years but we forget how long that really is until one of our children makes a remark that brings into focus just how long it's been since we lived in Texas. . . .
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November 25, 2006 07:18 AM EST --
Putting up the tree the day after Thanksgiving is a tradition in my family. We crank up the Christmas music, put up the tree, string the lights and then the real fun begins--putting on the ornaments. We . . .
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November 22, 2006 06:37 PM EST --
I've had some odd Thanksgiving meals in my life. I remember the Thanksgiving meal in 1990 that I spent in Shimonoseki, Japan. The wonderful people who were our stand-in parents . . .
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November 25, 2006 06:49 AM EST --
Thanksgiving dawned to the worst thunderstorm we've ever had since we moved here. The rain was coming in sideways and it was actually raining inside our bathroom where the wind was forcing the rain . . .
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