B.A.B.E. Week 48: 11 months today!

Elle celebrated her 11 month birthday today by bona-fide crawling yesterday.   I think that we have been in the blissful "put her in one spot" happy baby stage for too long and karma may just catch up to us.  As her nanny said today, "Elle plays rough."  And it's true.  She already likes to wrestle,  she enjoys 'running' more than assisted walking, and tends to be pretty grabby with her friends - so we will see what the future holds.


To be honest, a tough or rough girl suits her family's "team of three" lifestyle pretty well.  We are both always pushing to do more/see more/experience more.  And while I complain to Wilson regularly, probably every weekend, to let me sleep and relax more, he keeps me and Elle in the exploration spirit of "B.A.B.E."dom.

With Elle's "older man" wrestling partner

So how is the exploration goal going?  Well my goal is super easy here, just blog about the adventures that Wilson drags me on.   We explored this past week -- visiting another one of the Bahamas 700 islands.  Visiting other islands (besides the very close small little ones) in the Bahamas is actually no small feat.  For the other 20 or so inhabited islands, you usually have to fly to them.  There are only a couple that offer ferry or high speed boat service and at $150-$200 for a roundtrip, flying is just as affordable.


So this weekend, we flew to Long Island, which is one of the islands most damaged by Hurricane Joaquin.
  

Wilson was there for work to see how the island had recovered and Elle and I met him there for the weekend.   Luckily, it seems that the island has recovered pretty well, although there are still remnants of the category 4-5 hurricane throughout the parts of the island that I saw.   This island enjoys a lot of outside connections and has been able to bring in the resources needed to rebuild.

It is a stunning island.  With small cliffs off the coast and the deepest salt water blue hole in the world.  Snorkeling around it felt like staring into the abyss.  

We also went to where Christopher Columbus may have touched ground in the New World.  A natural gorgeous bay that we had all to ourselves for the whole day.  It was worth the no see-um bites...To see more pics, check out the blog that Wilson wrote when he visited last year....Happy Explorations!