Day Four - "Little people" torture

Well how do you find a tortuous moment when most of the day is spent bathing in the sun and pool? 

Not only that but half of my torture content has now been banned. 

Mackenzie approached me today saying she just read my blog and that I had to stop talking about her! Hmmm what is a dad supposed to do? I tried to explain I am making her famous - like Bonnie or Clyde (she didn't know who they were I don't think) but I just got that eyebrow look that her mum must have taught her that signals the discussion has ended.

But when you have 5 kids I have learned that 1 will always come through for you in one way or another. And sure enough...

But before all that let me share a little more about our day. So we are staying at a vacation villa. It is a 2 floor 2 bedroom 2 bathroom house with a full kitchen, living room and patio! It's sobering to think that in Vanuatu (the South Pacific island just devastated by a category 5 cyclone), this would be considered a palace and for us it's just a vacation home! We are very blessed in our lives here.

Anyway, we needed to go grocery shopping so we went to Walmart and that's when we discovered there are "Walmarts" and then there are "WALMARTS"! Check this out - it was the size of a large Costco or Sams Club.

And they had very kindly created an English aisle/section just for my visit.

I really enjoyed looking at it but Ribena ( a soft black currant dilutable juice) was $7.50 a bottle, so I reluctantly left it on the shelf. But I admit I readily partook of the custard!

We found all we needed for groceries and headed back to the pool.

To and from the pool Joshua, with the help of Uncle Wayne, started noticing all the lizards that hang around these parts on the palm trees and scurrying across the pathways. We explained how they are like miniature dinosaurs. And then we came across this little fellow.

We called him T-Rex ( as in Tiny Rex!). Josh thought that was a good name. 

Right I promised you a torture moment and a torture moment you will get AND it still involved Mackenzie - hehehe!

So do you remember our quiet Lucy? You know, our "no problem" Lucy? Can you pick her out in the photo below?

Ahh got you thinking now, haven't I? Well let me introduce you to our modern day Bonnie and Clyde.

On the right is our Lucy and in the left is Cheyanne. Such cute innocence right? Look at their matching pyjamas! Well it turns out they are bedroom terrorists! The first night they got here they apparently LICKED Mackenzie's pillow and her sheets! They thought it would be funny. Mackenzie apparently wondered why parts of her bed felt a little damp. YUK!! But the terror didn't stop there - they also set two little chocolates on Uncle Wayne's bed (Cheyanne's dad) and proceeded to, how do I say this - bottom burp on them!!

Oh my goodness! This is my Lucy! My quiet, docile, sweet and innocent little lady. It seems when two sweet quiet children get together something terrible happens, some kind of metamorphosis happens.

Last night they left a toy spider under Mackenzie's pillow last night. I'm not sure when the terror will end but I know we are all just a little more wary of our little people, Lucy and Cheyanne now!

Now if this blog is a little out of sync - the pictures seem misplaced or the paragraphs have all merged into one it's because I am writing my blog on my phone and not on my laptop. Why are you writing your blog on your phone Greg? Well I'm glad you asked. Let me tell you. My laptop inexplicably died last night. One minute it was on and I was downloading photos and the next minute it just shut off would not reboot, absolutely dead and unresponsive and won't even show its charging! It appears to have not just shuffled off this mortal coil but done the computer equivalent of spontaneous combustion! It also means the pool photos I have in my camera cannot be transferred and then added to my blog so you will have to take my word for it that the water was beautiful, the sun was hot, and the palm trees were beautiful!!

Of course, it would have to happen while we are in Florida on holiday. So now I have to try and fix it myself or find an Apple Store. Hmmm beach or Apple Store? To be continued...