{"id":1197,"date":"2010-11-30T00:29:58","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T04:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2010-12-19T23:09:29","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T03:09:29","slug":"st-barts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/?p=1197","title":{"rendered":"St Bart’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we saw St Bart\u2019s, which is still part of France. The street signs
\nare European, the prices in Euros, and lots of Peugot and Renau cars. I
\nnoticed that even the door handles to stores are the European Level types.
\n It was very beautiful, turquoise sea, yacht\u2019s, 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\u2019s 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
\nof the pair. We finally found a pair, and to my relief, they were on
\nsale. This is one expensive Island. The town was not large, so it
\ndidn\u2019t take us long to explore. J fell asleep as we walked back (in the
\nhip carrier). After lunch, we did the usual, R to the kids club, us to
\nnap. Daddy went and got her soon after and they went to the pool. J and
\nI explored the wonders of the laundry room. They have nice machines.
\nVacation laundry is different than laundry at home. Here lights and darks
\nare all mixed up, as you just want to do one load. For some reason I
\nforgot 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
\nhad some skirts. I should have guessed that dresses are only worn in the
\nevenings now.
\nShe is off to the kids club again now, and J is sleeping already. He is
\ndefinitely teething, he woke up every few hours last night when his
\nTylenol wore off. He is also back to lots of drool, and lots of fingers
\nin his mouth. Tonight at dinner a gentleman came over and complimented
\nus on how well behaved our kids were. Proud parent moment \ud83d\ude42 Tomorrow is Dominica, and we\u2019ll see what that holds.<\/p>\n

Here are the pictures
\nThis is the view of St Bart\u2019s from the tender ship as we approached.
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\nHere is a view from the island
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Did I mention how European this island is?? Check out the cars!
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\nOne of the stores we went in had this sign posted just outside the door\u2026Nice eh?? In fact my child was unattended in the store, briefly only, but as I was reading this sign!<\/p>\n

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\nThe Christmas decorations\u2026well they just felt odd. It seemed so out of place to see snowmen, snowflakes and Santa Clause in 30 degree weather. <\/p>\n

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And a classier display at a jewellery store.
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J fell asleep in the carrier on the way back to the ship.
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Our waiter surprised us with some beautiful origami at supper.
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Today we saw St Bart\u2019s, 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\u2019s, and beautiful houses perched on forested hillsides. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}