Fishing 101

The Stone supplier that Adam and Derick use has been promising them a “trip” for a couple of years but things always seem to fall through.  Adam has been using the same stone supplier for 14 years.

Lance, the supplier, Adam and Derick all love fishing so they decided they wanted to do a fishing trip.  I never minded the trip falling through because a fishing trip didn’t sound very fun.  

Well these guys ended up planning a trip to Florida for two days of fishing.  

We ended up flying to Florida Wednesday evening.  We arrived in Tampa about 1:00 am Thursday morning.  At 7:00 am we were off on our fishing adventure.  We ended up fishing until about 3:00pm and then we took our fish to a restaurant to have them cook it up for us to eat.  By the time we finished eating we were like zombies because we were all exhausted.  (7:00 am in Florida is 5:00 am in Utah)

We got back to the hotel, rested for a little bit, showered and then headed out for dinner.  We went to the grocery store to pick up food for snacks and lunch for Friday.  Friday morning we were back in the car at 7:00 am.  We ended up fishing until 6:00 pm.  

We took some of our catch to a restaurant for them to cook up so we could eat it.  The rest of our catch we divided up between the 3 couples so we could take it home.  

This was about half of what we caught on one day.  

The fisher men have named this bird George.  He rides in and out on the boats as they come and go.  He leaves when they pick up speed.  He loves to greet the fisher men because he knows they will be cutting up the fish and he is going to get some.  

These are donuts with a scoop cookie dough on top all covered with frosting. 

Tater tots, potato chips, Mac and cheese, pork and then the toppings.

This sandwich is grilled cheese, pulled pork, and Mac and Cheese.  

We found a fun restaurant that had the most unhealthy food I have ever seen.  Unhealthy typically = really tasty 😬 Honestly I didn’t like the restaurant but everyone else loved it.  

Adam caught a shark.

This fish was possibly the best fish I have ever had.  

This guy is poisonous so we through him back

I was reeling this guy in and a 7 foot shark swam up and grabbed it.  We battled with it for a second but the little fish couldn’t hold out and the shark escaped with the majority of my fish.  

Friday nigh after a long day of fishing we drove over to the pier to look at this bridge.  They light it up in different colors but this night it was lite up in the Ukrainian colors.  

 

While we were on the dock some guys were fishing and they ended up catching a shark.  This guys was 6-7 feet long.  It was amazing seeing them battle this guy.  

We woke up at 8 am on Saturday and headed to the airport.  This was a super fast trip but it ended up being a lot more fun then I thought it would be.  

This is what we returned to:

 

Memorable times

I never get sick of seeing this little face.  I got to have Quentin hang out for a few hours one night .

Both boys ended up going to Sweethearts dance at school.  It was girls choice.

This is the corsage I made for Briggs date. 

Avram didn’t have a date for the WX sweet heart dance but he and another friend tagged along for part of the date.

Briggs was in a group with all of Avrams friends.  

Avram was asked to sweethearts by a girl at another school.  

This is how he answered her. 

This is the corsage I made for his date.

 

I think this was the most fun he has had on a date.  He is even thinking about asking her out sometime.  

Crystal has been great about setting up a time for the kids to go do baptisms for the dead.  I went to the temple for her first time.  We went with Crystal, Jake, David and Pearl.   Jake was able to baptize Ila and Crystal and I were the witnesses. 

Every few years my friends and I try to get together to catch up.  Sadly Lisa Loveless Simpson’s father in law passed away that morning so she couldn't come but the rest of us were able to go to lunch.  It was so good to see everyone again.  Although it was hard yearling about many of  their parents struggling with health problems.  

 

Kona

Due to Covid our yearly ABC supply trip was cancelled so this year ABC went the extra mile to give everyone a great vacation.  This year the trip was to Kona.  

We had short layover in Honolulu and then we were off to Kona.  

WE stayed at Waikoloa Resort.  It was a beautiful Resort.  

It was so nice being in the sun and having a break from everything.  

Typically when we go on these trips I’m so exhausted preparing for it that I spend the majority of the trip sleeping.  But this year there wasn’t theater, ballroom, basketball, football, etc.  My kids are finally old enough that I don’t have to stress about figuring out where to bounce them around to so that they can be cared for while we are away.  

So this year we were adventurous and had a blast.

We went to the southern part of the island to do some cliff jumping.  

It was a 40-50 foot drop.  I just had to beat Adam and jump off the cliff before him.  

One of the excursions we went on was a mana ray dive.  This was so scary! And yet such an awesome experience.  

Adam and I were up around 4:30-5:00 am each morning and we were off on an adventure.  

One day we drove to the opposite side of the Island to do some hiking and see the volcano. 

We went through this lava tunnel.  

They had a huge super bowl party.

One night we had dinner and a hula show.

It was also Chinese New Years so one night we went to a Chinese theme dinner with a dragon dancing show. 

We did some snorkeling and went whale watching.  It was a perfect time of year to see the whales.  

It is such an energy boast to get some sun in the middle of the winter.