Discovery!!

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Utah

Just got back from 3 weeks of alllll different kinds of fun.

I flew to Utah to spend 3 weeks at home before my brother left on his mission to Pittsburgh. (Yes, I said Pittsburgh.) We spent the 1st week trying to outfit everyone for family pictures. If you've ever met my family..... After 3 trips to Kohl's, returning 3 different outfits for everyone, we finally had everyone outfitted. After 13 years or so, of that family picture that showed my...13 year old loveliness hanging on the wall.....it was finally retired to under the bed. I was pretty excited about that.

Formal picture

Casual Picture

The second week we went to Lake Powell with my Aunt, Uncle, and Cousin. We got there on Monday and spent the afternoon out on the boat, knee boarding and riding the banana.

On...

Knee boarding

The Third week....we spent getting Robert ready for the MTC. He gave an amazing talk on Sunday, and we dropped him off on Wednesday. I guess the only words are...bittersweet. For sure wouldn't want to do that every day. He'll make a great missionary.

Serving food at the farewell

Friends

Kendra and Kari

Bishop Spafford, Now Elder Jex, President Brandt, Right after Rob had been set apart as a missionary.

Dropped at the Curb at the MTC. It really like is a drive through. We won't talk about it. I've got a bit of attitude where that's all concerned.

Andrew will leave in 18 months, and we'll get to do it all over again. These two won't see each other for 4 years. :(

All 5 of us, happy to be together one more time :) I love my family!

Day 2 in Belize

Day 2.
We woke up early, and went down to the lodge for breakfast. Right after breakfast we were escorted to some fancy busses.

(They looked like the old mash bus)
We got on the bus and were headed to a cave. A real. Live. Cave. Bats, spiders, and fish included. We were going CAVE TUBING!

(Cave Entrance)


I stepped in the river (no, it wasn’t warm) and sat in my tube. And there I went….tubing in a cave for a long time! We got out and hiked up the cave at one point. Saw some cool ancient stuff that had been there for years.

Then we hiked back down and got back in our tubes. We tubed to the very end of the cave. When we got there, our guides had big white sheets and they set lunch up.

Keep in mind the only light that we had were the head lamps we were all wearing. We ate lunch on our cloth, explored some little cave holes, one had a fertility God in it, that you were supposed to burn incense to (I didn’t stick around there long)

(The fertility God incense burner thing is behind us…you can’t really see it because we have our head lights on.)

in another cave hole we found some clay. Real clay. We played with that for a while, then got back in our tube to start our journey back…
Somehow I was one of the first back to the ending spot, so we went cliff jumping. Really it wasn’t that high, but it still felt cool. Felt even cooler when my body hit the bottom of the river. I decided once was good enough for me.

Day 1 in Belize

Alright, alright. I know, I’m a bad blogger. I’m sorry. I have no excuses, or reasons….just simply that I’m LAZY!!! And that is all.
SO without any further ado…..let’s catch up friends!
First.
Belize. This trip was UH MAZING!!!!!!!!! We spent the first week in the jungle. Yes. Kari stayed in a jungle. With bugs, and monkeys, and who knows what else. No electricity, or phone service, or internet, for a whole 6 days!!! And yes, I survived.
Day 1.
We arrived at Caves Branch, after a long flight and what seemed like an even longer drive (through Belize where there are NO traffic laws. The man driving our big ole’ van said that stop signs are for people with good eyes, and speed limits, well they are just a suggestion…that was COMFORTING) We got there later than we expected. I can’t remember if it was because of a delayed flight, or if we were just slow. Either way, it was late, and all 20 somethin of us, we were tired. They had food ready for us, so we ate and then they took us to our TREE HOUSES. Yes, we stayed in a house in the trees. In fact, I wouldn’t even call it a house. It had a door, but I think it was just for decoration because there was really no roof where the door was, and once you went through the door, it was all screens. No actual walls. SO as I laid in bed, I listened to howler monkeys and who knows what else that was out in the deep dark forest…that I was in the middle of.

(Me standing in front of our tree house)

I'm back!

Guess what???

Hang tight, because there is a post coming.....it just happens to be verrrrrry long!