Vacation

We had a wonderful time in Ft. Myers, Thanks Susie and Uldis!  Our days were filled with mostly the pool. We went to all 4 pools at the complex over the course of the week.  What else did we do, played shuffle board, miniature golf 3 times, Quinn went to a Twins Spring Training Game.  We also had lots of bike time and down time.  We visited Sanibel for our usual day trip to the beach with ice cream after.  The most fun was the afternoon of sailing. Seeing the manatee and dolphins was my favorite!

More vacation pictures

The lovely Mr. and Mrs. Norris

Ryan enjoying the beach.

Love the matching outfits!

The bike riding family in front of the White House.

Sweet Ride

Thanks again to Mr. Luke for taking us around DC. This is how its done!

Slide

The lake that we swam in had a slide that the kids and adults loved going down.

Spring break

As you can probably tell we are on Spring Break in Ft.Myers Florida. So far the kids have done a lot of "volunteer work". Volunteer work meaning eating ice cream, going on dinghy rides in search of manatees, and going minature golfing. All of these volunteer efforts have been done with Uldis. The kids have been disappearing with him to volunteer.

Today I forced the kids to go to Sanibel and Bowmans beach. Of course they had fun looking for shells, playing in the waves and ending it with ice cream.

Tonight it is sliders for dinner and the basketball game, Go Dawgs!

The Sugar Mill

Jay and I are off tomorrow to The Sugar Mill on Tortola. We won this trip at the Gifft Hill School auction in March. It is expires at the end of October so we figuired we had better use it before it expires. We are both looking forward to the weekend. I am looking forward to the food, it looks yummy and has gotten great reviews! Check it out... www.sugarmillhotel.com The kids are spending the weekend with Heather, thanks Heather!

We are Back

We got back on Saturday from our 2+week long vaction. It was great to get off of the Island and see some family in the states. The wedding in Oregon was beautiful! We had so much fun that week with the Wicklund's seeing everything in and around Sunriver Oregon. The kids favorite part was bike riding. From there Jay came back to St.John and the kids and I went to Bloomington Indiana for a week to see Susie and Uldis. While there we had a nice visit with Grandma and Grandpa Koch. We also hit a few museums, the state fair, drive in and did some back to school shopping. Oh and we also got to celebrate Susies bday.

The kids are glad to be back and looking forward to school starting after Labor day. I have been spending most of my days up at school beginning to get ready for school to start. I have to work all next week so I am hoping to get some things done ahead of time. Jay leaves tomorrow for a meeting in Atlanta. He is going to spend a few days up there, maybe get in some golf, and hopefully bring me back some Duke's mayo.

Fair Update

Yesterday at the State Fair was awesome!! We saw the Clydesdale horses, cows (the kids got to pet a calf), chickens, ducks, and all the agriculture. The kids also got to ride some rides. We rode a tractor all the way around the fair grounds. On our way out the Clydesdale horses were getting ready for their competition. We stayed and watched and wow was it amazing! They had the single cart competition and then the unicorn, 4 horse and 6 horse competition. It was amazing to watch the 6 horses attached to a wagon drive around the arena. The kids had fun trying to pick out a winner out of each group. Neither child fell asleep on the way home so by the time they went to bed it was 10:30. The night before, after 11. There is only so much you can squeeze into a day so we have had to start using the night.

Vacation's all I ever wanted

We are in Indiana after a wonderful time in Oregon. The wedding was beautiful and we saw and did lots of interesting and different things. I will post some of the pictures once we get home this weekend. The kids and I are here in Bloomington while Jay is at home in St.John anxiously watching the weather to make sure Hurricane Bill comes no where near us.

Here is what we have planned this week. Today we are off to the Indiana State Fair. Then it is the King Tut exhibit, Holiday world, and the Indianapolis zoo later in the week. We head home on Saturday to begin getting ready for school.

A Night at the Drive In

We are at the drive in to see the movie G force. We came prepared with pillows, chairs, blankets, and drinks. The popcorn came from the concession stand. The kids just did a taste test to see which was better, Diet Check cola or Big K cola. The winner was Diet Check cola, straight from Florida.

Hanging with the Family

We have had a great time with everyone this week. It has been a crazy week. Here is the bad Mitch and Laine had flight troubles getting here so they did not get here until Sunday instead of Saturday. Susie hurt her back yesterday and is out of comission. I lost my wedding band at the beach on Sunday, hence the metal detector on the beach. Now for the good. We have been to Maho, Trunk, and Hawksnest. We went out on the boat on Tuesday for a North Shore tour. We had lunch at Skinnys yesterday, yummy. The kids have had pancakes and been in the pool every morning.

Dad leaves today, Uldis tomorrow and everyone else on Saturday. We are planning on going over to Jost tomorrow for our final day.

Missing Pictures

Sorry for the missing pictures on two of the earlier posts. (thanks dad for the heads up) I would re post the pictures but we are on vacation in Ft. Myers Beach. It all depends on computer availabiltity.

We are having a great time so far. Jay headed up to Orlando today to see his parents, Hi Mary and John! He is also going to work for a few days and head back here on Thursday. Its time for us to go get Aunt Suz at the airport!