Jamaica...ya mon!

Mike was asked to be one of a group of Senior Managers to review an audit in Jamaica for two weeks. As soon as he decided that he would do it, he went to work figuring out if we had enough skymiles for me to fly out and meet him there. We did so then we had to make arrangements for the kids. Hollie ended up flying out to take care of our kids for a few days. Yes, she had only been home for less than two weeks and then we flew her back out. It worked out well because her kids weren't in school yet and Kirk had some time off. We were so grateful to them! Mike was working in Kingston and the firm drove us all out to Montego Bay for the weekend. It was a long, windy drive through the middle of the island. We saw so many shantis and the poverty there is particularly humbling. Montego Bay was beautiful. The view from our room was amazing. We had a great time kayaking, snorkling, and sailing on the hobie, and climbing up the Dunn's River Falls. We really lucked out on the weather considering it's peak hurricane season and there were not many tourists so it felt like we had the resort to ourselves.

LEGOLAND

So Hollie and her three kids were the lucky recipients of our free tickets! We had such a great time at Legoland and we even met up with our cousins from Riverside later in the day. The kids had a blast.

Life in San Diego cont...

Hollie came down with her kids, Blake, Seth, and Hanna in August. We had a great time hanging out together! One of our excursions was to the World Famous San Diego Zoo, of course. There is so much to see and do there. Here's a few highlights.

Aaron, Connor, Hanna, Seth and Blake at the entrance
Aubrey intently watching the Sea Lion Show which supposedly

is the longest running Sea Lion show in the U.S.

For a small fee ($5), one can feed the giraffes.

I'm not sure what it is about me and reptiles but I can't seem to go

to a zoo without taking a bunch of pictures of them.

Who would have thought that you could find Dr. Seuss at the San Diego zoo, but you can! There are some great statues of classic Dr. Seuss characters in the children's discovery center and Aaron being a lover Dr. Seuss books had to have a picture with each statue.

We made a quick stop at the petting zoo. Seth, Aubrey, and Connor

were especially taken with this little goat.

Hanna and Aaron posing with a SD zoo character.

The kids and I went along the monkey trail while Hollie shopped for souveniers. We came across the gorilla statues and I practically had to drag the kids away. They were having way too much fun. What is it with kids and statues?

Hollie, Seth, Hanna, and Blake as we were leaving the zoo. What a day!