Back in Tampa

Mallory with our twin nieces, Mackenzie and Piper, and nephew Randall

Jeremy styling Randall's hair (into a mohawk!)

Randall chasing everyone with the watergun

Randall showing his cousin Chandler some love.

We went to Honeymoon Island today (a beach) and we all got BURNED! We were using this spray sun block that obviously didn't work very well...

Randall got the wierdest burn of all. A half moon under one eye, a triangle (going over a little bit of his nose) under the other eye and a weird looking widow's peal hair line burn.

In this one you can see how red Jeremy's body got and Piper's face.

Yesterday we did sort of a family photo shoot. We went out to this big tree by perkins and we all climbed it except for dad. The pictures came out sooo good! An actual professional photographer was exiting perkins and saw us and she offered to take some pictures! (You'll have to click on the pictures to view the larger version so you can see us more clearly).

All dad's kids and grand kids!

Little brother chase, big brother Jeremy

Jeremy's daughter Piper.

All the youngens

Randall, my nephew (christine's son)

Jeremy's kids, Piper, Chandler, and Mackenzie

Christine and Randall.

Tomorrow we're renting a big pontoon boat for the whole day so more pictures coming soon.

Day 9: Ponce

We've been in Ponce for 3 days now and it was far more beautiful than San Juan! There are montains in the distance any way you look!

This shot is from the 2 hour drive from San Juan to Ponce.


Here is our new hotel, the Hilton, from behind on a little pathway that we have walked everyday to go to the pool, beach, etc.


And here's our hotel room from the back sliding glass door.


Looking out the back sliding glass door and windows.



In the distance, between the gate and the grass is the pathway we walk (or ride bikes on).


From our back porch, looking sideways.


Walking the pathway. On the right side is the rock climbing wall, play ground, and then the gate and ocean. On the left side is the basketball courts, ping pong table, mini-golf course, pool and main lobby.


A more clear view of the activities on each side.


The beach, from the pathway.

Basketball court and mini-golf course (behind is the pool, fitness center, and lobby).

Ping pong table.

The fitness center was huge and it had bikes for free rental out front!

The kids riding the path on the bikes.

The pool.

After you walk through the gate door there are more beach chairs and umbrellas closer to the beach. This was taken at dusk about half an hour ago.

Here is the hotel's SECOND (and infinitly better) pool that is actually a part of a country club. The hotel has a shuttle that will pick hotel guests up and bring them here (it was only a minute away--if that--from our hotel but you have to cross a draw bridge so i guess that's why they prefer to shuttle you instead of walking.

Tomorrow is our last day here in Puerto Rico. We fly back into Tampa at 11pm. As beautiful and as fun as Puerto Rico has been I am definitely ready to get back home!

Day 8: The Rain forest

Here we are in the hotel room...clearly bored with THIS hotel and ready for the switch tomorrow to the Hilton on the other side of the island :) (We will have to drive an hour and a half to the oppsite end of the island to Ponce where we will be staying for the rest of our time here.) Today we went to the Rain forest...enough said right?!!! :)

A wall map of the end of Puerto Rico where we are and where the rain forest is.

The view from the Rain forest welcome center.

Chase in the welcome center.
Aw...again with the not fighting :)


Some man climbed toward the water fall giving a better perspective of how tall it was!

The observation tower. It has a spiral staircase inside where you can go to the top and see the most amazing view.

The sign that told us how many feet high we were.

From the bottom floor window of the observation tower.

Second story window...

The top.

still at the top. The whole Rain forest is visible from here.
Back at the bottom.

chase and mal, mal and chase

alex and....alex :)