“The brakes don’t work.” That’s what Dad told us as we started out on the Thompson’s Argo. And seeing as we were headed down the hill to the lake, it really boosted my confidence… Not!? Plus, Dad had never driven one of these before so it was rather intimidating to climb onto a machine I’ve never seen before, that has no brakes, and my Dad has never driven before. Continue reading
The first thing we did, maybe it was the second, after arriving at David Zuidema’s was rock climbing!!! It was SO much fun!!! It’s harder than it looks and requires muscles I don’t think I’ve used before…? Continue reading
We pulled into a campsite Thursday afternoon, which was basically a parking lot with hook ups, on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River. We left an hour or so later and took the train to New York City!!! Continue reading
We stayed with the Olivers for five days! We toured some, we visited some, and “historied” a whole bunch!? Continue reading
My feet were aching, and my mind was overflowing. For three days we toured Washington-and every night we went to bed satisfied and exhausted!!! We saw the Lincoln memorial, and walked through a handful of the Smithsonians, and toured the House of Representatives, among a couple of other things! One of my favourite experiences was the changing of the guard at the tomb of the unknown soldier. It was amazing how the guards never smiled walking back and forth with everyone’s heads swinging back and forth watching them! Continue reading
These past two and a half weeks we took a whole lot of photos on our camera-but we haven’t been staying in the camper!!! Which just means that there haven’t been any posts for over two weeks. But I didn’t mind seeing as I was sleeping in a nice comfy bed that had a ginormous bathroom connected to it! Bob and Becky invited us to stay with them, having never met before, but knowing a few of the same people, so we parked our camper in their driveway for two weeks! Now we are back on the road, with mixed emotions-we met some great people but we also have more stuff to see!??
For some strange reason every time I thought about writing up this post all I could think of to tell you guys was that we had done nothing. …But then I would remember and be like, “Hey, we actually did do something-we went to the Navy UDT-Seal Museum and to the Kennedy Space Center and we went on a hike…” and so on until I remembered that we actually did do a whole bunch of other things!? I called this Crazy Recuperating because we were catching up on sleep while spending time touring.
Our last day in Nicaragua I woke up at 6:30am and the next day I finally got to bed around 8:30am-after eating breakfast! Our days were thrown off a bit but once they got back on track the rest of the week rode on pretty smoothly. On Tuesday we left for a State Park and on the way we stopped at the Nave UDT-Seal Museum! Continue reading
I probably should’ve made this post before the Nicaragua one… But I figured that I better do that post while it was still in my mind, and then do this one next! So here goes!!!
My Mom’s parents flew down for a week in Florida! We picked them up at the Orlando International Airport and then dropped them off at the Miami International Airport. In between we covered many miles! We went down to Key West and up to Tampa and traveled through the Everglades! We were ALL exhausted by the time they left, but I’d say we definitely gave them their wish to see Florida! Continue reading
Ok, so I don’t even know how to start this post seeing as I’ve got a whole bunch of stuff I need to say! At least, before all the pieces of the puzzle will fall into place and you guys will understand why we just randomly up and went to Nicaragua.
A month and a half ago my dad casually announced at the kitchen table, “We are going to Nicaragua to see Carter.” Then went back to eating his lunch like it was no biggie, you know. All we were doing was going to Nicaragua for a week… ??????? Right, like, what ev’s! NOT!!!! Because in actuality it was a pretty big deal because as far as I could remember from Social Studies in school-Nicaragua wasn’t in North America.
Now you guys know how we found out we were going to Nicaragua, lets talk about why! I said my dad told us we were going to Nicaragua to visit Carter. He and eight other guys were invited by Mark and Brenda Bachert and Kyle and Allie Wilson to go down to Nicaragua for a year. The elders in the nine guys assemblies were encouraged to come down and visit. And my dad is an elder at home, so we got to go visit Carter in Nicaragua!!! Continue reading
Ok, so I was supposed to make a post today…? But instead I am flying to Nicaragua, so I’ll talk to all y’all later!!!????✈️
PS. Just to keep you all somewhat updated: Last week my grandparents flew down for a visit! It was SO much fun, and we covered a lot of miles!!! ??