Colette's Idea of Barbados.

Okay, Lets start with a simple Aloha👋. I apologize☝️ (not really, I just feel very obliged to say that) that I have not been posting blogs recently. I will try (note📝 how I say try) to tell 🗣️you what Barbados was like, 'cause not gonna lie, I don't remember places that well (hehehe...). Leave it to Colette to forget stuff! When Barbados came into view, big bottle nose dolphins (who liked belly-flopping) guided our way (yes how very majestic is that?). We anchored in a bay called...drum roll please...Carlisle Bay! Though I had to ask mum how to spell it because its pronounced like Kallal bay. We anchored at 2:00pm but I won't give you details on that day for it was boring.

The next day we (unsurprisingly) snorkeled🤿 and (surprisingly) saw what felt like 59 turtles 🐢and 12 leopard rays🐆. One☝️ time me and dad were talking🗣️ (above the surface) and a turtle🐢 popped up beside us, totally freaking🤯 us out (Curse you, element of surprise), and it was so chill with us freaking🤯 out it stayed close to us for a while. And me, Nat & touched the shell (hopefully not making a deadly☠️ virus that in a few years will lead to the extinction of turtles🐢) of the turtle! It felt like wet tortoise shell (don't ask me how I know what tortoise shell feels like). Sadly Maddy, Ollie, Penny and Dearest Mother Of Mine didn't get to touch one (or did Dearest Mother Of Mine touch it and freak out? Yes that's the case! She freaked out :'D).

The next day (I don't remember that day 💅very much, but, Alas! I must continue. You are after all relying on me for you amusement, -did that sound rude? I don't mean it that way- though I can't say I blame you) we went into town to check in (which SUCCEEDED!!) and we went in our first (not the last, sadly) ever Barbados Bus🚌 Trip! It was a nice bus🚌 ride with loud-ish music playing. I forgot what we went on the bus to do (I think we were just being the definition of tourists and exploring Barbados in 4-5 🤥HOURS!) but, psshhh, who cares? On the way back though? On the Bus🚌 ride back (It still gives me nightmares) the music was the loudest thing you did ever hear. Imagine the loudest thing you could possibly imagine and multiply it...BY 6!! And to top it off, an even louder commentator, who every 10 seconds yells either "NATIONAL HEROS MAN!" (The bus company) or "CHEESE BURGER MMMMM!" and things along those lines. It infuriated😤 me so much every SiNgLe ☝️time I had to contain myself from yelling out something like: "IS THERE A WAY TO SWITCH OFF THE COMMENTATOR?" or smash💥 the speakers🔊🔊🔊, for what felt like eternity but was probably an hour and a half. Yes. I suffered through that. PRAY🙏 FOR ME! If anyone says to me, "When I say Barbados, What comes to mind?" and my mood will instantly rise into annoyance mode and I shall scream back, "BUSSES, LOUD, TORTUR, COMMENTATOR!" and I shall mean that from deep inside that cold🥶 black⬛ shallow heart 💓of mine. Oh, I forgot to mention this, we (meaning the BuS dRiVeR - sorry; I can't say that without getting frustrated) drove past Rhianna's (the famous singer🎤) house🏠! I mean I don't actually know which one was hers -but still! I went past her house! Not many people can say that (unless you count the entire Barbados)!

Okay, skipping a few days...

CHRISTMAS TIME!! Okay first off, we had Christmas on Christmas EVE. Just to get that out of the way. Us kids got SPOILED. Also note that we also got Timtams (BUT WE CAN'T EAT THEM CAUSE EVERYONE GLUTEN FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE) and pineapple chocolate.

For Christmas Dad got: A Barbeque 🍽️plate, A snazzy shirt👕, Icebird🧊🐧📕 (book)

Mum got: A plate🍽️, A pillow

Nat got: Fairy lights🧚‍♀️💡, A Daddy🐖🐖 pig (from Peppa pig) toy, Lottie (our ex-dog)🐕🐕🐶 cushion, Dolphin🐬🔑💍 keyring, Chocolate🍫🪙 coins, A pineapple 🍍stress toy, A Nat Nut🥜(she had loads more but I forgot them and so has EVERYONE ELSE), etc

I got: A hair 👱‍♀️💆Massager, Chocolate🍫🪙 coins, , towel with my face on it, A watermelon🍉🥤 cup, a few hair-ties, some earrings👂💍 (an understatement. Nat gave me more than half her earings), and Maddy gave me an earring), A donkey 🐎👚T-shirt, 📕the 13th reality, a pearl necklace, etc

Maddy got: A smart watch (Samsung galaxy), AND I FORGOOOTTTTTTTTTTT (IM SORRY MADDY!!!!)

Ollie got: A pillow case full of treats (He didn't keep the pillow case though (DENIAL)) and a few stuff like that.

Penny Basically got the same stuff as Ollie (Ollie, Penny, dont take any of this personally!!! Also on the crossing, Ollie, you slept with your feet at the back of the boat!! Your SUPPOSED to sleep with your head at the OTHER END OF THE BED!! Penny, like an absolute QUEEN slept correctly MOST OF THE TIME)

For dinner we had the most delicious Roti for dinner (complements to the chef, who was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo nice!!!)

Oh yeah, how could I forget? We met another boat called Maxim (a swedish one) with a littld eight year old daughter called Lilo and another 12 year old daughter named Tintin.

PHOTO TIME!!!