Turks & Caicos 2011-Part 1

This past week my parents took our whole family (14 of us) back to Turks & Caicos. Saturday morning our flight left MN around 5:30, therefor up @ 2:00 AM! We got on the plane, settled in for a nap & they announce there's a light on & we all needed to exit the plane. After some waiting we were allowed to load the plane again, BUT not before enough time had passed that we were going to miss our connecting flight in Atlanta. When we arrived in Atlanta we realized, there were no more flights to Turks & Caicos that day. So.... we were off to Miami! 18 hours after waking up we were finally @ our resort. All in all the kids did as good as could be expected. Macie wasn't too sure about the take off at first. She called it "blast off" & said it was scary, but after 3 flights, got used to it.

We enjoyed the beach & pool Sunday & Monday & just being on vacation. Tuesay we headed over to the waterpark, but just hit one part of the park & the lazy river. On our 2nd trip down the lazy river our trip changed real fast, the winds picked up, things were staring to blow around & Hurricane Irene was on her way in. Over the next 2-1/2 days we spent most of our time in the room. The hurricane came in at a category 2 & left as a category 3! They said the winds reached about 115 mps, but our hotel could uphold 200 mph. We were the only place on the island that had power, because our hotel had their own generator. They still had 3 of the 15 resturants open for food, so that was nice. They had 95 employees that were required to stay overnight & usually have 900-950. Some of the employees that came back to work on Thursday had no house to go home to. By Thursday afternoon they had a couple pools back open & the beach cleaned up, so that was nice. We never were able to get into the waterpark though :( just too many trees down & too much to clean up.

We did have a GREAT time though! The kids loved the Sesame Street people that walked around. The both LOVED to swim in the pools & in the beach & LOVED playing in the sand. I have posted a bunch of pcitures....

Our Family


My whole family