I Want Your Memory!

1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together (Amy or Kent). It doesn't matter if you knew us a little or a lot, anything you remember!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you.

Girls Camp

Well, it has been a while since I have blogged, but not much has happened other than tons of work and the start of Kent's last semester of law school. For the first time in seven years I returned to girls camp. It was a blast, but I forgot what it is like to stay up all night talking about, well, just stuff. A really awesome experience took place for one of the non-member girls in our ward boundaries. She has come to a few activities, but when we had our testimony meeting on the last night, she got up to bear her testimony and became really emotional. She commented later that she never got it before - she never understood why we felt so strongly about our religion, but now it makes sense. It was a great feeling to see someone truly recognize the spirit in their life for the first time. To think, all this happened because her best friend, only 12 years old was courageous enough to teach her gospel principals whenever the opportunity arose and invited her to camp. The gospel is wonderful. I also got some great pictures of our level, "the cheetahs" (right) . Shawna and I were the leaders. That is us below.

Back from Costa Rica Alive

We had a blast in Costa Rica although I have to say I should have gone down at the beginning of Kent's trip rather than the end. He was kind of pooped out and a little less enthusiastic than me. We went to Arenal - the third most active volcano in the world. We stayed at a resort with a perfect view of the volcano over looking the lake. You can hear the volcano erupting continually and even see some lava running down at night. It was so beautiful. We then took a van to Manuel Antonio. Here we had cute geckos in our hotel room which thankfully kept the mosquitoes out. I called them my friends. We went to the National park there which is a real jungle (no pun intended). The video below is of some of the white faced monkeys stealing one of the tourists lunches right out of her backpack. The are cute, but they are thieves and they bite.

We also saw huge iguanas, crabs, sloths, deer, large spiders, lizards of all kinds including one that ran on its hind legs like on Rescuers Down Under, and large beautiful blue butterflies. There was a waterfall that we found a trail to - we had to climb through rivers, vines, bugs, and mud to get there. I really felt like I had stepped into an Indiana Jones movie with the monkeys, birds and bugs so loud in the background of our adventurous hike. We then went ocean kayaking. it was a blast! I loved it. I think Kent and I are going to invest in a couple of Kayaks now as a new hobby. The beaches there are so beautiful and the water is about 82 degrees. We then took a bus back to San Jose where we spent a couple more days among the ticos. We went to see Dark Night for $3.50 each. All our friends are jealous. We about died on numerous occasions in the taxi's, either that or our driver almost killed someone else crossing the street while we were in their car. The traffic there makes me grateful for the traffic in Los Angeles if you can believe that! We also got to walk around in down town San Jose where they have about 200 giant cows that companies decorate and donate. They then auction them off and give the money to charity. Some of these cows were hilarious. One last thing, Every one asks about the food, well - it was really good, but one experience was my favorite. We were at a little "soda" at I glanced up while we were waiting for our food and noticed that the sign on the wall was moving. I kept watching his phenomenon until I saw four cockroaches peek from behind the sign and then quickly run around and sneek back behind the sign. This happened for the duration of our stay at that restaurant. It was delicious. As was this last cow. If anyone wants to see more pictures, just let me know and I can email some to you. All in all, Costa Rica is highly recommended in my book.

San Francisco Trip

I was just telling someone to go to my blog to see our San Fran pictures before realizing - I haven't posted them. Oops! We went to San Francisco for our 5th Anniversary last March. I didn't realize how cold and windy it gets there. The first day I froze. It was a blast, but I don't think I have done that much walking in the last two years! We would leave the hotel around 9 or 10 and come back around 10 or so. We walked all the piers (Pier 39 two or three times), went to China town which was a little scary and not recommended after dark, little Italy, Market square, Alcatraz, and the botanical gardens in Golden Gate park. We road the cable cars and if you haven't been, a lot of the buses are from different eras and named after the states that I believe they came from. I could be way off on that point. Oh! We of course had to walk across the Golden Gate Bridge too. The best was the homeless guy who was sitting on the street hiding behind these branches that he picked waiting for unsuspecting pedestrians to pass before jumping out while shaking the leafy greens and growling like a bear. The whole street was filled with laughter. Here is a picture...

Waiting to go... Not very patiently.

Kent is in Costa Rica studying abroad and I will be joining him for the last week so we can vacation. He left June 6 and I get to go July 12. Of course I am here, alone for a month, but I am so excited to go enjoy the warm water and tropical beaches. This will be the first time I have been outdise of the US with the exception of a trip to Mexico for our Honeymoon. Kent is convinced he is going to hike from one side of Costa Rica to the other in one day! We'll see. ;) Because of this summer program Kent will be finishing law school a semester early. Yeah! So he will finish this December and take the bar in February. Then we will have to decide where we want to end up - of course we will be following the job offers. Oh, and sorry to break the news - we are not moving back to Utah, but we will be visiting often.

Two years in Cali and finally made it to Disneyland last April

I finally got to go to Disneyland with Kent. It only took his brother David and his family of 11 to drive out here and convince him it would be fun. We got some great photos and I am still left wondering why all my cute nieces and nephews have an obsession with hitting the metal garbage can doors every time we walked by one.