Spring Break is here!!

Brent's parents got into Puerto Rico on Tuesday night! On Wednesday, they visited the school where the kids were SO excited to see them. The kids brought Rick and Cathy all sorts of things and, of course, had some pretty interesting questions to ask. On Thursday morning we headed to Vieques, a small island about 7 miles away. The last time we were there was when my parents came to visit in November! This time it was much more busy! We had such a great time!! On Friday Brent, Rick, and Courtney went deep sea fishing, while us girls ( Cathy, Kelly, and I) shopped, went beach hopping, and watched the wild horses. Kelly and I enjoyed snorkeling for the big conch shells. We were pround of ourselves for finding so many shells. That night we went to the biolumenscent bay, which is an amazing experience, it is very hard to explain though!! This bay glows at night when the micro-organisms are touched. It is a defense mechanism. It is neat to see all the fish jumping, and then you get to swim for about 20 minutes. After we got back onto the boat the everyone focused on this really big object in the water that was glowing. The tour guide said that it was possible that might have been a small shark. Thank goodness we already swam!! YIKES!! Our hotel was called Adventures Inn, and between just barely catching the ferries to the unique eating experiences, our $20 rings ( long story), car rentals, and sharks??, it really was an adventure!

Happy Easter Everyone!! There will definetly be more blogs throughout the week!!

Rick and Cathy at Blue Beach ( Rick swam here about 30 years ago when stationed in Vieques when he was in the Navy!)

Me and my crazy father-in-law

Cathy and I relaxing at "Belly Buttons"

The boys getting ready for their big trip ( Rick has more pictures of the fish they caught...yes..they did catch some!!)

Brent and his tarpon!

Here is a group of 18 wild horses

The snorkelers!!

So much for our picnic!

Our conch shells

Us getting ready for the bay tour!

This pictures doesn't show the glowing much

The glowing looks more like this picture from their brochure. It is a bright bluish color! Amazing!!

Leaving Adventures Inn