Mosquitoes, St John, and Shaving Cats Oh My!

Why am I so bad at keeping up with this blog thing?? I think about posting something and then a week goes by. I really am going to try and post as often as I can, as long as there are still things to post about. I am mostly doing this so that 5 or 10 years down the road I can look back and remember this experience. Anywho, on with my post.

I have been complaining pretty regularly about the mosquitoes we have here. It's not like it's only when I go outside and I get swarmed (which is true), but we have them all over inside of our house and there is no escaping them! Clarke and I have started to make a game out of how many skeeters we can smash. It's pretty fun, you should try it! We've gotten pretty good at it and there's been a few days where we've killed over 20 in just a few short hours.

Such a good feeling when we smash em!

Good thing is I am starting to not be as bothered by their "bites" anymore. Apparently they are only bad this time of year and hopefully they will die down some during the "winter" months.

Clarke's schedule at work has been pretty busy. He's been working every single day for the last 3 1/2 weeks. The schedule sucks because we aren't able to get out and enjoy the beautiful beaches as often as we would like, but I can't complain much because the money is worth it. Saturday was Clarke's first day off in almost a month and so we took full advantage and escaped over to St John. This was a much needed getaway for me since I had been having a rough couple of weeks. The time we spent there was so needed and it gave me a boost of happiness! The sun was shining and the water was perfect.

Little jelly fish I stumbled upon right when I got in the water. I'm not sure if they sting, so I stayed away just to be safe!

I love the turtles!

These things are just so cool!

So many conch shells. Most of them had crabs in them. It was fun to watch them move all around the ocean floor.

Saw a sting ray. They are so awesome to watch.

There were rain clouds all around us, but they managed to stay away and we had sun the whole time. So pretty isn't it?

I swear this guy is Richard Branson! 

From the ferry leaving St John.

The following picture is the result of too much sun and heat. I thought I left my allergies back in Texas, but I guess I am allergic to the sun too. I even had lots and lots of sunscreen on. Anyways, I ended up getting hives all over my body. Good thing I brought my allergy meds with me.

Since I am also allergic to cats and we have two of them, we started shaving our cat, Belle, to cut down on the hair flying around. We had this awesome vet right by our house in Texas that would shave her and they did an amazing job! We haven't found a vet here on the island yet that would shave cats, so I took it upon myself and I bought some animals clippers at Kmart the other day. It took me about 3 hrs and lots of patience, but I think the end result is pretty dang good! Doesn't she look so cute?

Maybe I should offer cat shaving services and make some extra dough?? Not a bad idea!