Friday, November 5, 2010

Good news for us (not so much for Haiti)

Hurricane Tomas made his long slow turn to the the north some 150 miles east of Jamaica and is not going to impact us at all, instead crossing Hispaniola on the Haitian side and then heading north into the Atlantic through Turks and Caicos and the Bahamas.  The hurricane is as close as it will get to us today and it is a bright sunny day here on Grand Cayman.  With Katie hitting 39 weeks yesterday the last thing we wanted was weather excitement and it seems our prayers have been answered.  Today is my last day of work as I go on Paternity leave starting Monday joining Katie who went on maternity leave this past Monday.  I am off until mid-December and we have set up Katie to be off through February between her legally mandated maternity leave and vacation/sick days.  Katie's grandparents arrive Monday afternoon and Monday evening we see the Doctor for the catheter with an eye toward inducing Tuesday morning.  Next Saturday I am chairing a conference as part of the Healthcare 20/20 Conference for the Government of the Cayman Islands but obviously only if all goes well with mommy and daughter early in the week.  Katie's parents also arrive next Saturday followed closely by my father who arrives on the 18th so we are enjoying our last weekend alone for a while this weekend.