Saturday we enforced family morning fun day. This is a hard sell as Sebastian largely prefers to hang out with friends rather than us. But we managed to drag him out for a brief morning at the park followed by a movie. Really the only way this was possible is he was desperate to have a pool party that afternoon with all his friends and I could hold this over his head!
This week of school I could not believe how exhausted I was. How exhausted all of us are. It was not like I had early nights in Barbados, in fact we had some very late nights where I was still up at 6am with Sebastian. But I guess there is just something different about work. It hits harder! Also, getting use to learning 100 names again and talking all day. We celebrated the first week back at school with a visit to Sebastian's favourite restaurant, Tony's. It is shocking how much that boy can eat, me and Luis had a main and Sebastian ate three courses. Gone are the days of any child meals, that is for sure. It was a great way to kick off the weekend.
I cannot believe Sebastian is starting Year 3 and his 5th year at NIST. Time certainly flys by. He was excited and nervous about the start. Luis has a new space that is quite amazing and I even have a new classroom that I am quite excited about. Sebastian and myself came in early, so Luis missed these day 1 photos.
I have taken barely any photos in the last week. It is not that I have not been busy but maybe I am all pictured out after a long full summer break. It was a busy weekend meeting with friends and doing my first 10km run of the school year. And now I am busy getting ready for the first day of school tomorrow with students. I always seem to leave it until the lsat minute and then am so busy. But that is just how I role. Anyways, I did take a picture of a girlie birthday celebration for Kim Saturday night and then a few pictures of my race. I was super happy with my result as I was worried I would not be able to finish. But finished with a decent time, winning me a hotel stay.
Left Barbados Saturday early afternoon and arrived back in Bangkok lunchtime Monday. About 40 hours door to door, not easy! But we made it and had two days to try and recover before we were back at school. Luckily Sebastian has an extra week as the jet lag has been much harder on him. We were very lucky to get back in time to get an evening with Richard and Sara, very good friends from our time in Phuket. They were in Thailand on holiday and we caught them for dinner the night before they set off back to the UK.
Our final evening for this trip came far too fast. As always. I was so thrilled that Craig had a surprise two days in Barbados and he was able to join us for dinner and drinks. We met at Carib, along with Nats, the girls, Vicki and Hottie and my forever friends Amy and John. It was such a lovely evening. The girls went home early with Sebastian giving us an extra hour or two out. It was a perfect way to wrap up a perfect holiday.
Kadooment ended, our friends left, but the fun continued as we had our last few days of holiday with our family and friends. We had a lovely day with Aunty Andy at the Yacht Club, Natalie treated me to a girlie dinner at Champers and we finally got to Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary. I was so surprised by Graeme Hall, I do not what I thought it was but it was not what I expected. A lake, filled with fish and birds, mangroves and Sebastian commented that he thought it was the most beautiful place in Barbados.
