Our Little Vacation

First, I'd like to welcome the Bowers family to blogging!!!! So exciting :o)

Our vacation/honeymoon/anniversary/graduation present was a lot of fun! We went to the Atlantis Hotel in Nassau, Bahamas (actually it was on an island called Paradise Island attached to Nassau by a bridge). The plan for the vacation was to have a vacation where we didn't need another vacation to rest from it after we were done. And it worked! Heather loaned me her Twilight series books and I read 2 of them while there as well as 2 mysteries/international intrigue books that James brought.


This place was amazing. It had tons of salt water aquariums throughout with thousands of fish in them inclucing hammerhead sharks and sawtooth sharks. They also had 20 or so waterslides, one of which actually went through the shark tank so you could see sharks swimming over and around you as you went through it. There were multiple pools around the park for just relaxing, and of course the beach. The water there is clearer than bathtub water and the sand was white and fine. Completely gorgeous.

I just realized that I can't get the pictures to go with what I am saying. So, these will be out of order. Anyway, we went on a boat ride out to another island called the Exuma Cays where we went swimming, snorkeling, feeding sharks (our leftover lunch), and then we went to another island where they have indigenous iguanas and we fed them grapes on a stick. Overall a great vacation!

Snow in JUNE?

Impossible you say? Nay. Just a little out of the way.

So we went to Snowbird as a family for a little mountain break. We all need one sometime, and we're not into tenting it for the past 5 years or so. So we took a drive up the canyon and stopped at Snowbird to see about the zip line and alpine slides (the slides open tomorrow by the way). The kids didn't meet the weight and height requirement for the zip line and were very bummed about it, so we took a tram ride to the top of the world. It was there we played in the SNOW! It was nuts to see the skiers still making runs down the nasty, dirty, hashed snow, but to each his own I guess. On our way out of the parking lot we saw a little boy moose. Very cool, especially since we were in our car and I didn't have to be so afraid.

Bowers Stuff

This is mostly a test to see if it works. We now have our ceiling fan up and going. Mom and Dad came today and Dad was up in the attic for a lot of the day. It appeared to be very hot up there. Thank you for installing it for us. We love it.

We saw that Heather has a place for just her family stuff and I assume that Shelley does too. How do you do that so people can read the posts. Or do you just post and it goes in the order it gets posted?

If this works I will also send picture of Kylee's room so you can see the finished touches and when we finish Brittany's I will do the same.

St.George

We went to St. George last weekend with Kent's side of the family. We did a lot of swimming in the hotel pool (it was in the 100's down there) which felt really nice. Our little family did a little hiking too up on the bluff. We saw some wild dog-like/fox-like desert animal, a bunch of lizards, and some really pretty flowers up on the bluffs that I've never seen before. McKinley and I went to Tuacahn and saw the Sound of Music. I thought it was really good. McKinley says she really liked it too, but we're an early to bed family, so the 11:30+ pm play end time was a little wearing on her. So here are some pics of the trip. There will be others on my family blog.

Heather fam