Sunday, February 10, 2008

33 hours in Miami

We made a quick trip to Miami this weekend to deposit money, do some much needed shopping and stop in on our Miami seminar. We arrived at 9:30 Saturday morning and were shopping or running errands straight through to nine in the evening. Today Katie had a hair appointment, we did the last of our shopping and headed home looking like a pair of refugee's with suitcases that had been empty yesterday now full of supplies for the college, dvd's for us and new clothes that would have been outrageously priced here on the Island. People on Cayman will literally fly up to Miami for the weekend to shop because it is so much cheaper in the US, even with import duties which we avoided by keeping our purchases under 800 CI which is 1000 US.

We also learned that cats will eat anything if mixed with clam, tuna or shrimp juice. We are now mixing the ring worm medicine in with the liquid from cans of various fish and crustaceans and both Ginger and Gypsy lap it up. There sores have gone down dramatically in the past week so they are both looking up.

We are on Island until the end of the quarter and Easter weekend when we go to Orlando for a conference that Katie is attending for registrars. Good Friday and Easter Monday are both national holidays so we are going early to meet family and see some of the parks.