Back from the Caribbean-back to the grind
I haven't had much time to blog lately as Dr. Nancarrow has been out with a pretty severe back injury, so Dr. Mary and I have been running hard. To add to the hectic schedule we went to the western Caribbean with the kids for spring break. We did a cruise out of Miami for 7 days, hitting Grand Cayman, Roatan Honduras, Belize and Costa Maya Mexico. It was tough coming back to work. The 2 big highlights were swimming with the stingrays in Grand Cayman( trying not to let the Weldon feral children be like the Steve Erwin) and Cave tubing in Belize. We took a boat trip out 30 min from port to a large sand bar and 40-50 stingrays came up to us in waist deep water where we could feed them squid. The females are really quite impressive, reaching 190 lbs ( Oprah size). They let you pet them but always being careful to stay away from the large barb midway up the tail. The kids were a little spooked at first except Polly who jumped right in. You could hear Sarah screeching thru her snorkel...