Orlando Girls Trip

Brooke and I went to visit Cait and her puppy in Florida. Our girls trip included gators, the beach, and of course, Harry Potter World.

Canoeing

Harry Potter World

We got completely soaked while waiting in line for Butterbeer.

Dog Beach

St. Augustine

St. Augustine is the oldest city in the United States and is celebrating 450 years this year. It was such a cute beach city. The St. Martin's fort reminded me of Panama. 

Feeding Gators

Orlando Temple

Donut Falls

Last week, I dressed the same as a mannequin at the MTC bookstore even though I had purchased my skirt and shirt somewhere else. It looked like I purchased my whole outfit at work haha.

It was hard to get a picture of how cool the waterfall really was. Most of the pictures just looked like a stream disappearing below ground.

Melissa's Favorite Camping Spot

Melissa showed us her favorite camping spot last week. We followed the old Pony Express Trail into the desert. We set up camp in a grove of Aspens.

I spent this week during research for work in the Phoenix, Arizona area. It was so hot! One of the nights it took until 1:00 am for it to drop below 100 degrees. It was fun to see some of the missionaries that I worked with a year ago when they were in the MTC. I also had the chance to see the Gilbert Temple. It was breathtaking.

No Me Olvides Panama

 

We recently visited Adam's family in Panama. We planned our trip to attend Nick's homecoming; he recently returned home from a mission to Denmark. It was so much fun to see them and to visit where we got married last year.

The Panama City skyline is so beautiful. I could take pictures of it all day. I limited myself to sharing the following two one from Costco Antiguo and one from Cerro Ancon:

We enjoyed sharing our visit to Panama with some of our friends. We had great fish tacos at the fish market. Apparently that's the restaurant's name and it's not the actual fish market that we searched first.

We took a trip to San Blas. I hadn't been there since I was a missionary. So much had changed in those 4 years. Many of the houses have satellites and there are so many more boats that will take you to the islands and those boats all have life jackets.

 The elephant-looking object in the water is a sunken ship. We enjoyed snorkeling around the ship. 

The whole boat of crabs was for sale for $30.

Portobelo was the main port where Spain shipped the majority of the gold they 'recovered' from the new world.  Today it's a small town with a beautiful bay that goes out into the Caribbean sea.  There are the ruins of several of the forts used to defend against pirates and an old church. 

Hilltop Fort

Adam's parents had told us that visiting the Embera village was their favorite thing. We loved the boat ride to the waterfall and village. It was our favorite as well. 

Embera to Spanish to English translation