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Cheap Cruises To BahamasBahama Islands News, Articles and InformationProcreation Vacations Invite Lovebirds to MultiplyHotels around the world are offering procreation vacations catering directly to couples with conception on the brain, The Associated Press reports.The resorts offer everything from onsite sex doctors to couples massages to tried-and-true fertility boosters — all in the name of helping conception-challenged couples bring on baby. Sound silly? Think again. Even doctors are jumping on the procreation vacation bandwagon. "One of the most easy, therapeutic interventions is to recommend a vacation," Dr. Jason James, an obstetrician in Miami, said. "I think the effect of stress on our physiology is truly underestimated." It's about "getting pregnant in style," said Judy Randall, president of Randall Travel Marketing in North Carolina.
February Point awarded ‘Best Waterside Development of the Year ...February Point on Great Exuma in The Bahamas has been voted the ‘Best Waterside Development of the Year 2006' by Caribbean World magazine.Promoted by Black Pearl Ventures, the exclusive residential resort of February Point nestles in a paradise location with each of its waterside villa offering stunning vistas of white sandy beaches and azure blue seas. On receiving the prestigious Award, British-born Guy Newman of Bahamian property promoters, Black Pearl Ventures, said, “It is a fabulous honour for February Point to be voted ‘Best Waterside Development of the Year' by Caribbean World and its readers. “Both unspoilt and private, The Exumas offers the best of island life and at February Point it is accessible from each and every villa via your own private jetty. Dad To Madge - "Wait, I Want Him Back!"The father of the Malawian boy that Madonna adopted recently didn't quite get the whole "adoption" thing, evidently. Today, Yohame Banda says that he didn't realize that he'd have to give up the baby to the pop queen forever and ever when he consented to the adoption.The 32-year-old Banda, a produce farmer from Malawi, tells the Associated Press that he is just now understanding what happened to his son. "If we were told that she wants to take the baby as her own we would not have consented, because I see no reason why I should give away my son," said Banda. So what exactly did he think was going to happen? Banda says he thought that the biggest female pop star in the world was just going to take care of David as an orphanage would for several years, and then return him to his native village of Lipunga.A Gulf Coast Sarasota sojournAs a child I can remember my family driving the old Ford station wagon across Tamiami Trail while I joined my brothers and sister counting alligators sunning on cypress tree stumps along the dangerous canal-flanked two-laner. We were on our way across the Everglades past Fort Myers towards Longboat Key off Sarasota for a week in a cramped two-bedroom beach apartment. After unpacking we would run out on the brilliant sandy beach and collect shells or fish in the surf for catfish or whiting. The days were wistfully filled with sun, sand, the illusive search for the rare lion's paw shell, and fresh fish dinners; nights ended with my father reading chapters from C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Surprisingly, that 1960s idyll can still exist in the Sarasota region today with perhaps a Game Boy or laptop thrown in. After leaving 1-75 (exits 193-213) families can spend reasonably priced vacations on the mainland and string of barrier islands from Venice in the southern end of Sarasota County north along Nokomis, Casey Key, Siesta Key, Lido Key, St. |
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