Homecoming!!
Packer asked Dayana to the dance! They had a big group and had some fun!
Dinner was at the Falabella’s!!
Month: January 2024
A Beautiful Soccer Saturday
Benji at the Temple
Benji received his endowment! It was awesome. He is such a good kid and way more spiritually prepared than I was at this age. It was awesome to be there with him!
Friday September 22! Mount Timpanogos Temple.
Sunday September 17 – Friday September 22
Ben came home with Covid 🙁 He was pretty sick. It was great to be back with the kids! They did such a good job being ome alone while we were gone. They took care of each other and got to work and school and all the activities. I am very impressed with how well they did without us!
Flag Football Season! Test Driving Matts jeep to see if we want to buy it, Grandpa at lunch with the boys, backyard football, Millie hanging with Maren and going to all of the birthday parties. Millie also hanging on her new silk. Cali at school and GAME DAY.
Headed Home
We left the ship and grabbed a taxi to the airport. We flew from Athens to Toronto, then Toronto to Salt Lake. Ben was pretty sick by this point. He tried to fake it the last few days but he was not doing good on the flight home. We had such a fun trip
Hydra
The walking island! No cars! Only Donkeys or horses! We walked thru town and along the the road. We found a beach to swim at and just lounged and chilled and enjoyed our day on our last island, just the two of us!
Santorini
We slept in for a minute and I went to the hot tub spa and we finally ate the hamburgers and Ben was trying to not be sick… then we ferried over to Santorini! And paid to ride the gondola to the top to where the city is. We met up with our group and tour guide and he drove us over to the famous blue churches and all of the instagram famous picture spots!! It was very pretty and cute but very rushed!
Then he whisked us across the island to a famous Monk church at the top of the island. And to black sand beach and then to red sand beach:
And then he whisked us to a spot to watch the most famous SUNSET in the world!…
And the day was complete. We bought a few souvenirs and called it a day 🙂
Rhodes
We finally got to go swimming! We walked over to the marina and met up with some of the work crew – We spent the day on this catamaran – sun adn swim and food and relaxing. The water was amazing. SOOO warm and BLUE and no fish and no sand.
Thst night we watched the baby for Ryan and Hannah so they could go to the fancy dinner.
So far from home!
TURKEY!
Look at us on the other side of the world! Still Unbelievable. We booked a tour and our first stop was Ephesus. They are trying to unbury and restore so much of the city. It is pretty amazing. The goddess Nike carving. And so so many people up there. The library is the double story building. The holes in the bench is the public toilets! We walked thru the gladiator tunnel and saw a reenactment of the people of this time. The arena was very impressive too.
Next we went to Firca Quartz Ceramic Store. They showed us their pottery and then tried to sell everybody. Then they took us to see the Virgin Mary’s house! Then they took us to a “free” lunch. After the lunch they brought us inside the warehouse and taught us about their rug making and then spent an hour stryong to sell Ruth adn Brady a 20,000$ rug. And finally we went to the site of the Temple of Artemis – it was pretty lack luster after the ruins that we had seen earlier in the day. We stopped at the candy store for Turkish Delights and then back to the ship.
Everything for sale in Turkey was a Genuine Fake!