December and the holidays
Trey piling it on Thanksgiving pies
Game night at the Tesene boys talkin sports
Tyler and Trey at the band concert
Yum!
Christmas morning
Christmas Eve Trey and Lacey
Grandpa helping Ty set up hammak stand Christmas morning
Ty eating Thanksgiving pie
Knappβs house BYU football
Long Layover in Amsterdam. Best thing to do when you are really tired and everyone else from Kansas is sleeping is tour around. So we walked all over the city.
Cheese tasting
Downtown Amsterdam
Canal tour
So tired,after flight with
Travel starts May 25th from Chicago to Portugal with long layover in Amsterdam.
Ty and Parker just settling in for the long flight.
Had to buy some cheese, oh so good
Canal cruise and a very tired crew
Bikes everywhere.
Rail way
Ty taking a little nap on the canal cruise
A great thing we did was try lots of different cheese, Lavender, pesto Honey, almond Etc
Pedestrian walkway
Amsterdam from the canal
Letβs fly to Cancun!
Love our new tradition of checking out of the cold after Christmas and going somewhere warm with Sand \240and the ocean. Last year was Port a Rico. Wonder weβre will we go next year?
So yesterday was an early day waking at 4:30a.m. Thankfully we only had to drive to the Manhattan Kansas airport and not the Kansas City airport, \240which is 2 hours away.
Peek a boo, Iβm awake
Got out the airport, which was crazy, lots of people, screaming taxi! Luckily Mac j went and found us a taxi in our price range and odd we went.
All pictures of our place and from our Balcany. Sweet view
Crash! These waves were intense.
Night time things really quiet down, the boys has a firestick and have access to tv all of the world, so the just plugged it into the TV and watched BYU football. Sheesh crazy how you can have theses luxeries.
Long day, but oh how nice
Feeling spoiled!
2 hour wait in Dallas Fortworth airport( the capital 1 lounge). Plenty to eat and relaxing \240for next flight. Also loved that they had to go boxes. So if you were hungry on the plane you had something.
I had a monte Christo sandwich with egg on it. Absolutely amazing, some yogurt with grapefruit and oats, amazing crassant too.
Later I took blt and kale salad yummy dressing!
Then by about 3:30 we hit the beach. Seriously strong waves I was tired in 15 minutes. Plus it had been a long travel day. Tyler and Parker and Macj swam and had a great time for about an hour.
The boys ended going grocery shopping, I took a rest.
Later the boys and \240everyone ate left overs from the lounge, so worth having that credit card, literally fed us 3 meals today.
Day trip
Itβs a bit bright but what a relaxing ride
Morning Sunrise
Ferry by 9:00
Got ourselves a golf cart to put around in. drive all over the Island.trying to find our snorkel place. Google maps wasnβt very helpfulπbut it was a nice ride.
Lathering up with sunscreen
This was an area fish were all around me
Ty look at me
Macj found a large shell
The reef is all the dark area
Ty and Parke have to have a wrestle even snorkeling
Dinner fish tacoβs yumm!
We did it again! Took a dip in the ocean at midnight. To welcome the new year
Just about ready to take the plunge
Boys watching game right up till 11:57
Fireworks on the beach
Happy new year 2023
Seriously the best Fish tacoβs!
Rated number 1 on Trip Advisor
The owner is from Argintina. They even give you a cinnamon Sugar donut dessert( kinda like monkey bread)On the house- way to say thank you!!
Explore January 2023
What a day!! So many caves to explore in out and around. The perfect natural amusement park
Swim through, and hike through, wade through or zip on a hammock through or you could zip line over and then down into.
1st of the day was driving jeeps through jungle areas and caves.
Tyler and I. He says Iβm a crazy driver
Parker and Macj getting directions
Looking up from waterfall
Zip lines!! Here we go we went on about 16 line
8 red and then 8 green
Coming through the waterfall. β I canβt seeβ
Looking up
Bats! Yes they live here too
Wo look he we caught up too. Parker and Dad. We had pass some slow people but now the fun really begins
The water was so clear
Mac j coming up the to enter another area
Little waterfall area
Heβs lookin like heβs having a great time
Off to the Hammacks
Mac j coming back through the water
Letβs take swim through the caves, two things you canβt forget, your helmet β you donβt want to hit your head on stalactites.Also you must wear a life jacket, no drowning here.
Big waterfall area
The pretty parrots
Ty
Tandem
Tandem
Parker
Ty and Park all geared up and ready to go!
Tandem
Tandem
Rocking the bridge to see if we can scare Parker
Seriously goofy
Ty and Park prepping to zip through the cave on their hammacks
Waiting
Into the caves
Letβs take some tight turns
Beach and pool day
Rented umbrella lounge chair and chairs on the beach
This is were we stayed
Patient- the boys played this all the time.. just need a healing rock
Football on the beach
Our spot, I can still hear the lifeguardβs whistle.
So Sunday January 1, 2023 was a very quiet day. We slept in till 9:30 and then tuned into church back home.Adam Dolezal spoke and so did Bishop and one of the missionaries.
Then rest of the day we just lazed around, sadly I had a migraine, probably too much activity yesterday. The boys watched lots of football
Monday January 2,2023
Pool and beach and yummy burritos π―
Christmas is still being celebrated
Goodbye Cancun