4 more days

We only have a few more days left in Toledo and we are going to miss it and our wonerful friends so much. I really don't like thinking about it most of the time. We are so excited for our new adventure in Memphis but it is also so hard to leave. We pack our truck up on Thursday and leave right after graduation on Friday. I gathered pictures of a lot of our friends (I wish I had pictures of all of them) from friends' blogs. The picture above is on Match day with our friends (the first four of us are in the same ward)

Below is a picture of Julie and I; I am going to miss her a lot! This was our girls night out last week. I love these girls!!The rest of the pictures are of the kids and their friends. I really hope they handle this move okay; Matthew tells me not to talk about leaving his friends. They are all such great kids! The next two pictures are from the gymnastics place we went to a lot on Wednesdays. We were able to go free because we all have YMCA passes. They let you stay for an hour to play and us moms got to chat. This was our preschool group this year

Ellie, Matthew, Cohen, and Zeb

Sweet Ellie already moved and Cohen and Zeb move the same time we do

Taylor always loved going to Ellie's house because she had lots of princess and girl stuff. At the zooMatthew and ZebThe cute Sacks boys.....they lived really close to us and sometimes while we went for walks we would drop by their house.Valentines Playgroup

St. Thomas part 2

There were iguanas everywhere; we mostly saw them right around the pool at our hotel when the sun was out. The rest of our trip is below this post if you have not seen it yet.

View of the hotel and Glen grilling

Here is proof that we went to church on our trip. It was in a nice little building and was such a neat experience.

Magens Bay and below is the town Charlotte Amalie

We ate at this place and it was the one place that was a little too authentic for me; way too many bones had to be taken out of my food.

St. Thomas

We had a wonderful trip to St. Thomas last week and it was so nice to spend time with just the two of us. There are a ton of pictures but make sure you listen to some of the tunes I listened to on the beach to help this experience be more enjoyable. Most of the first pictures were from our day on the island St. John; we took a car ferry over and it was a busy and fun day. It was also our sunniest day!! It rained and rained and rained on our trip and was cloudy most of the time. At first I was pretty bummed but we did get a couple of sunny days and sometimes I didn't mind the clouds. It was always 85 degrees so it was warm and laying in a hammock by the beach and not getting burnt and with no sun in your eyes and feeling the ocean breeze is also great! We mainly relaxed at different beaches or by the pool, we hiked a little, ate out at a lot of fun places, and explored the different towns. I was also sad that I could not snorkel because of my ears; I have had some hearing loss and my inner ear isn't working correctly so I got tubes put in both my ears a few weeks ago to allow me to put steroid drops directly in them. Sadly the tubes and drops have not helped so I was kind of mad about not being able to just dive in the water and go snorkeling. Oh well :( It was just so nice to sleep in although I swear Glen and I cannot sleep in past 7 or 8. I blame it on our kids who are always up at 6. We watched movies and a lot of HGTV which was fun. Food is crazy expensive there and our trip to a scary grocery store was something to remember. We also had a beat up rental car and the trunk would not close. St. Thomas is hilly and the roads are very windy so on any bump our trunk would pop open. We finally took it back and got a new car that was much better and also found out that i could drive the car since Glen lost his drivers licence. We did find it but realized before then that it was expired anyway. OOPS! So I drove the whole trip which was wild, fun, and very scary at times. They drive on the left side of the road but in American cars so the steering wheel is not on the other side. That really wasn't too hard to do but the hills were another story. There were times I for sure thought we were going to roll back down the hill or off a cliff. I had the gas pushed as far down as I could and we barely were making it up these hills only to make a sharp left turn and have to go straight up again. It was mainly on St. John where we got lost that we encountered the really steep and scary roads. It is a fun memory now! Overall, we had so much fun and a big thanks to Glen's Mom and Dad for watching our kids. Sorry about all the pictures and sadly because it was so cloudy you can't see how pretty it really was. You can just imagine it brighter and greener!

Trunk Bay on St. John

We got there really early and were almost the first ones on the beach.

I love the bright colors of the Caribbean

It was fun walking by this school and watching the girls play baseball in their skirts.

Lunch on St. John......we had some pretty authentic food on the trip and MOST of it was delicious.

We saw donkeys along the road. There are not too many bugs or animals on the islands. We mostly saw chickens and little chicks along the road and iguanas. The most roadkill they have is iguanas. Pictures of them another day.

We went on a fun hike that was mainly downhill to a beach and them straight back up the hill to get back to our car. It was long and my legs were definitely shaking by the end. There was ruins of sugar plantations through the trees which was neat to see. We also saw a couple of deer and lots of hermit crabs along the way.

The beach at the bottom; it was the only beach with lots of sea shells and coral. I don't think too many people make the hike down to this beach.

At the hotel which was an amazing hotel. We had a kitchen and living room and there was room for 8 people to sleep in it. I felt guilty sometimes about not inviting someone to come with us but it was fun just Glen and I.

I wanted this room which was really a bar by the beach but it was so pretty. It was all white and blue and I think would make a great sun room someday. Although we probably won't have a house on the beach which was I am sure the main reason I liked it.

We had to get a few pina coladas by the pool; they really helped the killer headaches I had on this trip. People were surprised when we didn't take the free rum that was handed out left and right everywhere we went; including the airport when we arrived.

Pool area

The Lollipop band played for everyone by the pool one day and the lead singer cracked us up. He was so funny!

View of St. Thomas from this awesome restaurant that we went to our last night there. It was up high on the mountain and overlooked the city. Yes, it did eventually rain and they had to close what looked like shower curtains around us so we didn't get wet.

One more set of pictures coming soon!