Every year, my family takes a vacation together.  We’ve done this as long as I can remember, from car trips to Tennessee to our more recent exotic travels to the Caribbean.  It’s always amazed me how well we get along together – though we’re all pretty easy-going and dedicated swimmers, readers, and drinkers.  Really, the majority of our vacations involve swimming/snorkeling, reading, and drinking.  Studiously.  It’s pretty awesome, if I do say so myself.

This year Mom picked Barbados as our destination, and it was just what we needed.  Kam and I finally got smart and bought goggles before our trip, and on our first day spent at least an hour doing summersaults and handstands in the water like kids.  We swam with turtles, snorkeled around old ship wrecks, body-surfed, explored the island, and drank a lot of rum punch.  (Well, I, at least, made it my mission to sample the island’s variations on Barbadian rum punch wherever we went.)  We drove on the left side of the road, ate a lot of fish, and, you know, had a proposal.  It was an awesome week.

Here are a few of our images.  It’s no secret that I’m a sunset-aholic, so consider yourself forewarned. 🙂