flab-u-lous

we've returned from what i'm describing as our most amazing family vacation to date.  actually, it's our ONLY family vacation to date, as all others we've taken up to this point really are better described as a "Family Trip".  Family Trips are when you go somewhere with your children and have an amazing time with them, but come back more tired than you were when you left.  disneyworld?  weekends to asheville?  weeks at the beach?  all fun -- but all exhausting.  those are Family Trips.

but six days in the bahamas where the kids were as entertained with us as they were without us?  six days where my only part of meal prep was mulling over the extensive menu three times a day?  (seriously - our waiter actually cut up our children's meat for us.)  six days where we actually slept in as late as 8 a.m.?  six days where chris and i could sip on fruity drinks by the pool with our best friends while our children saw magicians and made t-shirts and sang karaoke and all sorts of other amazing activities without us?

well.  that, my friends, is called a vacation.  and lest you think i'm the only one who was as blown away by the week, i interviewed our daughter on our final morning at breakfast.  here's what susanna had to say:

unbeknownst to her, "FLABulous" is an entirely appropriate way to describe our week, as i think we all gained an average of three pounds after stuffing ourselves silly all day long

many pictures on their way ...