Halloween At Home..

I have to break Halloween into two posts...home and the festivities at "Trooper Housing" or "The Apartments" as the housing is referred to.

Pumpkins were carved.... (I missed Dills making his masterpiece complete with "boogers"

Manderzz decorated:

Gifts were opened:

Bella was cute --(always!)

Costumes were worn: (I don't have the "scary jester and the burger King" things were just too busy :(

Trick or Treaters came by:

Plenty of food was eaten:

Apples to Apples was played:

A song was sung (poorly I do have to add)

Cake was enjoyed:

Dad got tired after the 2 hours we spent over at the apartments:

I hear the boys played Xbox until 3 or 4 am.....

I was asleep!

Yep, Days are VERY FULL here!

Ohh yeah..we've got a little color! OMG do we look alike? FREAKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hear that happens.....

The very delicious fish from last night...thanks random pool friends!!

I'm a totaly nerd! I did water areobics in the pool, I didn't make it to the gym, I felt obligated.

This was a challange...I had to carry my partner a 300 pound grandma "like baby"

My camera was acting up the afternoon of the concert, with luck Jerry will email me pictures of the incredible afternoon we had --we rented kayaks down the beach (it's insane doen there by Billygain's Island, glad to be down here where it's quieter!) paddled out to El Arco...Lover's Beach, went to the Pacific side -- Divorce Beach I hear it's called, it's got a huge surf and they say you send the unwanted spouse out swimming there to get rid of him or her....just repeating what the locals say....and snorkled for a couple hours...omg there are literally 1000s of fish by the rocks, it was amazing.

Yesterday we just laid around the pool, visiting with couples that we've met-- 4 different ones yesterday. One couple may go stand in line with us tomorrow....i lvoe this place, have I said that before?? "Debra and Mark" had fresh durado that he caught yesterday morning, we all went to a resturant where they cooked his fish 3 ways for us...blackened, with butter and garlic & with capers and white wine. I didn't care for the wine sauce too much, but the other 2 were som of the beist fish EVER (yes Gigi...Rich's fish tacos are still #1) It was like a teeeny baby halibut (very moist and tender) but sweeter than halibut. I really wish T would bring his catch home, but he doesn't want the hassle :(

ATV Riding & Tonight Sammy @ Cabo Wabo!

My wrist band --people plan whole vacations around Sammy's birthday week! Who knew??

T saw several lizards..I was focused on keeping up with the tour guide and not screwing up! We wanted to see a snake (we're from AK have never seen one in the wild!) but all we got to see was a hawk or eagle with one he'd caught.

T is finally relaxing...it took us a week to slow down and enjoy being on vacation. The first 3 days don't count we were in ANC or flying, pure misery.

The rumor is that some scenes from the movie Troy were filmed here at Migrino Beach. We keep hearing that everywhere we go. Maybe it was filmed at several locations??

I love ATVing we will definately do it every time we come here. T wants to do dune buggys or green zebra buggys next time --very cool!

He did it!!After 4 hours in line from 4am-9am T and super fan "Jerry" got us wristbands to the Sammy Hagaer show tongight at Cabo Wabo. I know about 4 songs from the 80s, but I'm excited nonetheless!!

Stormy Day, At Least Our Skin Healed a Bit.

The sea glass from the storm...no better than what we find at home!

The shells we found after the storm.

It was getting dark and I don't have a photo program on my mini laptop. The ocean was crazy, the waves huge, but it was hot like a bathtub.

Very deserted!

T and the only other guys (the 3rd guy is mia in this shot) that were stupid enough to go out in the water.

Trying to stay outside in the midst of a squall.

This is brave for my husband...he tried a margarita..hated it, but he tried one.

Today was a very mellow day, up late...we ate breakfast indoors as it rained early. I worked out for 45 min. We ran some errands -- got some 80 spf sunscreen lol we needed it! Laid out for a couple hours, Troy visited with our NYC friends in the pool, I slept. Evidently 45 minutes cardio and a 30 min trip to Wal-Mart is completely tiring!

It rained all afternoon, but we went to the beach and the pool anyway. The storm brought in lots of sea glass and shells!! T and 2 others were the only idiots in Cabo Bay right at sunset...they had a great time in the HUGE waves though....we didn't have enough appetite to go out to dinner, grabbed sandwiches and did a couple loads of laundry. The weather will be iffy for 2 more days then better for the rest of the trip! Dyl says he won all of his heats in swimming today, is doing great in wrestling and Manderzz had her 1st basketball game today. She was so excited (as excited as MSN messenger allows one to be) Jr had a bunch of guys over for a wild xbox party with a bonfire (I hear it was soooo warm there Friday??) and an egg toss in the street, I have to find out more about THAT...weird... we miss home, hate to miss anything...it does happen sometimes. Thank goodness for grandma!

Anchorage..

He's trying to not like my pup--IMPOSSIBLE!!

AG is relaxing before the flight...

A long long long day for us...from 7am - 7pm the next night, really...except for snoozing on planes.

Zoe.

OMG Pattycakes made me the coolestnecklace, green of course! I'll show it off when I get back. It's a cute teeny GREEN aleut basket on a necklace. We did this to see if I'll be darker than her when we return.

ohh so pale -- we've been in the sun only 2 days and already we're tan!

Too sad to be in ANC without visiting and eating supper with one of my favorite people in the whole world Heder! She was out of town...we wasted time, watched 3 boring movies, checked out the puppy at the kennel in Palmer ---- she's very very cute! We really didn't do much else, our bags were already about 45 pounds each that means no shopping! T went to the endodonist (just 2 wisdom teeth will be pulled on the way home)

At the ANC airport we ran into AG, Sonia for you Lauri and her co-worker Teri. I talk to AG at least once per day, sometimes MANY times a day.....how we were on the same flight and didn't even know I don't know! ...she jumped up and screamed, hugged me and was utterly shocked, it was fun! We had a great visit, too bad Teri and I both were not feeling so good on the flight to SEA, I am blaming the soup at 11pm from Chili's not the 2 very sweet ameretto sours that I had for dinner!

Friday & Saturday with Friends

He has eyes!!

Manderzz getting some more layers.
It was a bit brisk at the beach.
I'm going to get used to the cold --I'm brining a puppy home and CB and I told ourselves we were going to walk all winter (maybe good glass to be found with all the storms?)
I like this pic of MS --she's so fast at finding sea glass for her mom! Abob is great too --but we didn't have any boys or their friends with us this time.
AG finding the largest piece she's every found --and very done --like a jellybean...
MS spotted this puddle and thought it was so cute! I agree.
AG and her man!
T is looking a bit tired after the trip.
MS playing volleyball! She even scored a point! Horray!
The team they played (Unisea employees??) was formidiable!

Friday we met AG and MS for dinner then ran a few errands, walked the track while watching AS's basketball practice. After all of that was MS's first volleyball game. We watched that and waited for "the dads" to come join us. The boat came in during basketball, we had things to do! They come & go so often that we're not blowing off a kid event to go be cold at the dock --not to be mean, but live goes on... There were a bunch of teens playing games and staying over on Friday night, I was too tired to visit them...I get that way after T has been gone for a couple weeks...
Saturday we met up with AG and & MS ran errands, went to the beach, the Moms worked out while my kids got their hair cute (finally!) well, except for the oldest. He wants to have someone else cut his --whatever, just GET IT CUT!