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Did you know that you can link your Stop & Shop card to your school? I was just surfing their site looking for deals when I stumbled upon the program.

To learn more about this program and to register your card to your local school, click here!

If your school is not registered, make sure to contact your principal to make sure the school gets registered for the 2010-2011 school year.

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We are back from Jamaica! Yep, we were in Jamaica this last week. The annual manager's trip for James' company took us to the Iberostar Grand Resort in Rose Hall. You know, the normal 5 star all inclusive resort. Nice rooms, pool with swim up bar, incredible beach area with spectacular ocean views, and 150 men enjoying themselves at the pool swim up bar.

The view from the lunch buffet area on day one.

First beverage of the trip, one of the few. This was not a drinking vacation for me. In fact we had some drinks on the beach that were non alcoholic because we didn't say "with rum". Who knew you needed to tell the waitress that you wanted rum in your pina colada? So, we learned the next day that you need to say "with rum" when ordering fruity mixed drinks that are supposed to have rum in them.

The same drink. At this point I realized that I should have gotten some food first.


Pumpkin avacado salad! I discovered that there was quite a bit of pumpkin that was used in the food. I love pumpkin so I will have to find recipes for these dishes online! I could go for some pumpkin avacado salad any day!


This is one of the great scenes that I captured as the sun was setting one evening. There is a sunken ship in the slight distance. Not sure if it was there because there was an accident or if it was for tourists to gawk over.


James enjoying some beach time.


Getting ready to leave for the airport. We had some time to kill so we went to the beach for one last "ahhhhh" moment.

We had a great time. No sunburns to speak of and I only slightly injured myself getting off of the tour bus. We did go to Dunn's River Falls on a "half day" trip. We left at 9 and got back at 3... I guess that is considered a half day. The falls were beautiful! Not as tall as I had pictures, but just gorgeous! There will be video to come on that excursion soon.

Dancing Chicken

Here it is! Fresh off the flip cam! Happy 30th birthday, James!




Thanks to James' assistant Kevin and sales guy Brian for helping me coordinate this! The guy on the ladder in the back of the store and who comes up behind James recording the event is his boss. Perhaps this will be shown at the meeting in Jamaica!