2nd semester break

I can't believe we're already back to the 'ol grind :( Jordan started his 3rd semester (aka 2nd year) on Tuesday and is already back into his daily routine. We spent the past 2 weeks on break and it was awesome!
We celebrated Jordan's finals with dinner at Pineapple Pete's. Anyone travelling to St. Maarten I've found that Pineapple Pete's is one of the most kid friendly restaurants- they give your kids a toy car to keep and always bring their food first, and ice cream is included in the kid's meal..it's the little things..highly recommended!

Prior to break I had made a "to do" list of things I wanted to do so that we didn't end up just wasting time thinking "What should we do today?!" We surprisingly only went to the beach two times during the 2 weeks- once to Le Galion and once to Mullet Bay for a birthday party. We celebrated a lot of birthdays!! Bradley had 3 friends that had birthday parties so it was fun to get together with all the kids, and even meet some incoming spouses!

We ate out at least one meal per day which is such a rarity for us. We typically only eat out as an after block celebration so that was a real treat. One night we went to Caribbean Cinemas to watch Pete's Dragon which...was rough. Ian was pretty squirmy and Bradley ended up having an accident because he was so intrigued by the movie. We probably won't be doing movies, as a family at least, until Ian is quite a bit older. I also started watching Game of Thrones (Jordan actively watches) and we got through season II after the kids would go to sleep.

We went down to frontstreet in Phillipsburg for dining and shopping one day and got a flat tire so we had to get 2 new tires :( Jordan also had to do some car work on poor Blueberry. Sigh! Jordan and I were able to get in one date night over break thankfully! Special shoutout to Laura, Aimee and Gozzie for watching the boys. We ate at Jimbo's in Simpson Bay and it was delish. We went to the Princess Casino afterwards and didn't lose any money! Jordan and I were also able to have a Dad/Mom date with our friends Nicole and Ivan and their son Magnus (Ian's bff) which is always fun.

Overall, it was a great break and I was sad to see it end! But we've booked our flight back home for Christmas so I'm already looking forward to that!

**Edit!! I forgot to add that I broke my finger over break as well! I slipped down 3 slippery steps at a restaurant and my left index finger took the beating. Swelling and bruising is down significantly, but it's in a splint for roughly 3 weeks :(