St Bart’s – The things that grow in my garden…

Today we saw St Bart’s, which is still part of France. The street signs
are European, the prices in Euros, and lots of Peugot and Renau cars. I
noticed that even the door handles to stores are the European Level types.
It was very beautiful, turquoise sea, yacht’s, and beautiful houses perched on forested hillsides. Just gorgeous. We tendered in, and walked a bit around town. We went to a bookstore first and bought a lovely children’s book (in French). As we continued however, it became clear that this was a high end boutique type of place. R has been desperate for a new pair of flip flops and we heard all about it as we searched for some. We did find some cute hello kitty ones, alas they were missing one
of the pair. We finally found a pair, and to my relief, they were on
sale. This is one expensive Island. The town was not large, so it
didn’t take us long to explore. J fell asleep as we walked back (in the
hip carrier). After lunch, we did the usual, R to the kids club, us to
nap. Daddy went and got her soon after and they went to the pool. J and
I explored the wonders of the laundry room. They have nice machines.
Vacation laundry is different than laundry at home. Here lights and darks
are all mixed up, as you just want to do one load. For some reason I
forgot to pack any skirts for R. So she has a few pairs of shorts and dresses. She has complained however that shorts are hot, and wished she
had some skirts. I should have guessed that dresses are only worn in the
evenings now.
She is off to the kids club again now, and J is sleeping already. He is
definitely teething, he woke up every few hours last night when his
Tylenol wore off. He is also back to lots of drool, and lots of fingers
in his mouth. Tonight at dinner a gentleman came over and complimented
us on how well behaved our kids were. Proud parent moment 🙂 Tomorrow is Dominica, and we’ll see what that holds.

Here are the pictures
This is the view of St Bart’s from the tender ship as we approached.

Here is a view from the island

Did I mention how European this island is?? Check out the cars!

One of the stores we went in had this sign posted just outside the door…Nice eh?? In fact my child was unattended in the store, briefly only, but as I was reading this sign!