Fish Farm

Previously, I had posted about our fish multiplying...well, we officially have a fish farm. Wednesday, we came home from work and Andy was feeding our fish and I started cooking. Then I hear Andy say something like this: "What? There are more fish?" So, I look and sure enough, our female guppy had another batch of kids. I believe it was about another 10 baby guppies. Will it ever end? Now Andy wants to buy a bigger tank......I enjoy our fish but I don't know about getting a bigger tank. Anyone want any free guppies?

Florida Vacation

For Memorial Weekend, Andy and I took a vacation to Florida. We had tons of fun!! The weather was PERFECT....It is in the mid 80's with a slight cool breeze the whole time we were there. So, we got plenty of sun. :) Anyway, here is a re-cap of how our weekend was.

Saturday:

Arrived at the airport and picked up our rental car. To our surprise, we were able to choose our car..of course, it depended on what size you rented, but you had your choice among that size. So, we chose a Toyota Corrola. We decided to drive to Tampa to go to the beach, which was about an 1 1/2 hours away. Anyway, as we drove, we noticed the steering wheel shook pretty badly. So, we stopped by the same rental place in Tampa to exchange the car. Luckily, the company allowed us to do this. The lady who was helping us said we could choose from either the compact or midsize cars. At first, Andy chose a Toyota Yaris but then as we were going to pick the car up, we saw that there was a Prius in the midsize section. We grabbed the keys right away and I went to see if we could change the car. The lady didn't hestitate and changed the car for us. Of course, it took us a while to figure out how to drive the car, but we had a lot of fun. Definitely saved us a lot of money on gas. :)

After we got the car, we continued the rest of the way to Clearwater Beach. It was so beautiful! We LOVED laying on the beach, swimming in the ocean, and just enjoying being out in the sun. :) We were also able to meet up with some friends for dinner later that evening.

When we were done eating, we drove back to Orlando to check into our resort....courtesy of agreeing to listen to a presentation, we were able to stay at the Hilton Grand Vacation for really cheap. It was an awesome resort...we were really impressed.

Sunday:

We pre-gifted and picked up our Disney Tickets and headed off to Epcot Center. I had a lot of fun. We went on a few rides (Space Mission, Test Track, and a few others) and walked around the different countries. We were also able to meet up with our friends Daniel and Joanne. It was a lot of fun seeing them.

Monday:

In the morning we had our presentation...if the representative didn't talk so much, I think we would have been out really quick. By the time we got to the closing the deal portion, it only took 10 minutes to finish up. We told them right away that we were not interested and that they would not be able to do anything to change our mind. Well, actually, I said that if the package cost was like $2000, then I would consider it. We were really proud of ourselves.

After the presentation, we met up with friends at the Kennedy Space Center. That was a really neat place to visit. Especially seeing all the different aspects of the space center. The coolest part was that the Discovery Shuttle was on the launch pad ready to launch in 5 days. Because it was so close, we had a really good view of the crawler. The crawler is what moves the shuttle out to the pad. I guess it takes 8 hours for them to move the shuttle out because it moves at 1/2 a mile per hour.

For dinner, we went to eat at an all you can eat sushi place for $15. Andy was the only one who bought it and he ate a ton! He ordered 6 rolls and each roll was 8 pieces. So he basically ate 48 pieces...minus a few that I ate. :)

Tuesday:

This was our last day so we just shopped around the outlet mall, ate lunch, then headed to the airport. We were sad to leave.

Anyway, that's basically our trip in a nutshell. I'll have to add more pics later.

Camping Time!!

Spring/Summer is FINALLY here!!! Up until the last 2 weeks, the weather has been horrible. It was either in the 30s or it was raining. So, to celebrate the nice weather, the first things we wanted to do after Andy was finished with classes was go camping. So that's what we did. :) I LOVE to camp so after checking the weather forecast to make sure it would cooperate, we decided to go camping at Forrestville/Mystery Cave State Park. Our friends, Ben and Sarah Joslin, were able to join us as well and we had a great time.

After arriving at the campsite, we started the campfire to cook to cook tin foil dinners. Tin foil dinners is one of my favorite things about camping. As we waited, Andy and Ben went off to the river to go fishing while Sarah and I stayed back to watch the fire. As we waited, Sarah and I chatted away and I learned that Ben was a good friend of a elder that served in my mission. What a small world!

Anyway, the guys came back and we ate dinner...had smores....and chatted....then off to bed. The next morning, Andy and I were up around 6 or 6:30 am (we are never really able to sleep in too long when we camp because of the sun)..so we got up and decided to go fishing. I really enjoy fishing as well and sometimes I don't want to leave if I haven't caught anything. Unfortunately, we didn't see any fish in the river and didn't catch anything as well. After about 45 minutes we headed back to the campsite to sit by the fire and eat some breakfast.

After breakfast, we walked on the trails along the river and just enjoyed nature! Everything was so green and beautiful. Being outside was just really nice. Hopefully the nice weather will keep up. :) I'll post pics later.