Summer Thus Far.

Summer of '09 has been pretty good to me.  I've met lots of people in Calgary (mainly just because Brittany was friends with them when she lived here and through her I have been introduced).  Because of traveling and what not I did not have a job this summer.  By the time we were done traveling it was the end of july, and I actually head back to school the end of August so it really left no time for me to get a job.  So I have been just chilling.  I go on bike rides when it is sunny outside, so I've done that about 4 or 5 times aka Calgary has been rainy slash cloudy for several days, I am not a fan.  None the less every night is pretty fun.  There are about 5-15 of us who hang out.  I'm not sure what we even do....hahah...play games, Wednesday nights at the wave pool they let you go in for the last hour for only 2 dollars so we do that then go for wings.  It is pretty fun, lots of socializing that's for sure.  We've gone to two drive-in movies up at Deerfoot Mall they are free so they attract lots of people, but that has turned out to be fun.  We gather out blankets and people with trucks and big cars head up there and watch a movie.  On Monday night some YSA got together and played volleyball for 2 hours.  I cannot believe how sore I was after that.  5 days later and I am still hobbling down the stairs haha.  

One of my good friends Kandice Palmer has a condo in Invermere, so last weekend she gather up some kids and took a weekend trip out there.  We had so much fun!! Thanks Kandice for everything!

(L-R: Brad, Renee, Karly, Kandice) Us four stayed out in the pool all night just playing.  One night we built a 4 man totem (pic is below), and we had some photo ops involving jumping into the pool. Brad took some pretty solid belly flops only because he was doing the superhero pose, and sacrificed his bod to get a good pic! Another night we had a football and the four of us were on the sides of teh pool and we would throw it to one another while jumping in.  It was lots of fun, took a while to get through all 4.  It's al ot harder than it sounds! haha

Here is the whole crew minus Topher and Max who graced us with their presence for two days!

Us girls jumping the one night!

4 man totem pole!!!!

We had some fun with out wet hair, made us some staches.

The last day we were there it was pretty windy and cloudy but non the less us girl stayed outside for about an hour or two trying to get a little tan.  

On our way home we stopped and took a picture by the mountains! I love this one, the scenery is soooo beautiful!

Kandice bought some Sour Patch Kids, and we have never experienced such sour candies!! They were seriously SO SOUR!

That was the highlight of my weekend! Thanks again Kandice for so much fun!!! You da you da besT!!!!!! hahaha. 

Cruising the Caribbean

When we lived in Texas we were only 2 hours away from Galveston (port where cruise ships leave).  So before we packed up and moved, we thought we better take advantage of our close commute to the port and go on a cruise.  We went on a Western Caribbean cruise.  During the 7 days we hit up Jamiaca, Cayman Islands, and Mexico.  It was sooo much fun! At first we were like "Mom, Dad we are resort people not cruise people."  But by 2nd or 3rd day into the cruise we said "We love cruises!!"  It was so much fun, tons of activites for the whole family.  Cole made a couple friends and played with them the majority of the time.  He also loved going to the arcade.  Us 4 girls obviosuly sunbathed and read books and ate lots!  There are several perks of going on a cruise rather than going to a resort.  Perk #1:  The food is much better in my opinion.  Perk #2: You save on money, instead of going to a resort for 7 days to one place, you go to 3 places in 7 days!! And I really like that, cause in a resort you maybe go out of the resort 1 or 2 days and do an activity.  Well on a cruise you do the activity in the one day, and you can still tan and swim and all that fun stuff.  Perk #4:  If you go on a family cruise, there are lots of stuff for every age group.  Kids make friends, and really enjoy themselves.  That is all i can think of.  Next time we cruise I would LOVE to go to the Mediterranean and hit up Greece, Italy, and Spain!!!

Cozumel, Mexico probably had the bluest water of the 3 places we went to.

The famjam after ziplining in Cozumel.  It was alot of fun, I wish we could've gone parasailing cause ziplining only took about 2 hours, but the people there were very nice.

The ocean in Cayman, it was SO beautiful, and SO warm.  But SOO salty.

At the end of the day in Jamaica it started to rain at a little.  This is the sign as we were driving back into the port.

This was a bar in the Cayman Islands, we met just on the other side to going Snuba.  I was just so excited that they had so much CANADIAN HOCKEY tokens.

The Ocean in Jamaica.

This is a sign in Jamaica.  We just thought it was so funny that we should WALK GOOD to keep fatalities down. I mean it is true, but sounds funny.

The family at "Welcome to the Cayman Islands" sign.  Here we did snuba. It is a combination of scuba and snorkel.  You have the mask and a breathing apparatus that has a tube up to a raft where your oxygen is.  You can still swim around pretty freely and it was alot of fun!! I would definitely do it again.

This was our tour guide when we went to Jamaica.  We climbed the Dunn's River Falls.  It is 600 feet tall, and fun to climb up.  Not hard at all!! After the climb we went the beach where we had some Jamaican cuisine, which consisted of chicken, veggies and rice.  I really like the veggies, Katelyn really liked the rice, and Brittany really like the chicken.  But all of it was really good!

Mom and Dad at the Formal Dinner.

(L-R) Katelyn Brandy Karly Cole Brittany

The Kids before one of the Formal Dinners.  The food was soooo good, and you could orders as much as you wanted!