The Dill Family: June 2007

Sunday, June 24, 2007

We're Back!!

We have been back in the states for about 3 weeks now. We have been so busy those 3 weeks that this is the first chance to do a blog. We spent a week in CO, where we enjoyed visiting Brent's family. We went camping one night with Tracy and Jaron. We also got to see our friends, Tracy and Ryan! Benny and Lola had a good time in CO, their favorite things was the dog park.

After our week in CO, we drove up to SD and spent a night with Sheila and met her boyfriend, Mike! We continued to Pierre. We thought that was a long drive, but it didnt compare to our 16 hour drive down to Texas. Texas was a blast!! We went to Six Flags, Hurricane Harbor ( water park), a Rangers/Cubs game, and did many other things!! We are half way done with our summer break...time is going fast, but it is so nice to see family and friends! Here are a few pics of our trip so far!!

Hope you are all having a great summer!!

Me and nephew, Jaron

Tracy, Jaron, and Brent camping

The camping dogs!

This is a long drive!

We stopped to stay over night at a hotel in Kansas

Us at the Rangers game ( Sammy Sosa hit his 600th HR the next night:(

Our lovely nieces

We all got pedicures at the Day Spa!

Us at the water park

Uncle Brent with Kirsten and Braedon

Kirsten and Braedon being vampires

My parents, brother, and sisters

Sunday, June 03, 2007

Bienvenidos a Puerto Rico, Sheila!!

I am sure Sheila can agree when I say that her week vacation here was very crazy!! Our week was consumed by suffering through sunburns and getting rained on by the unusual thunderstorms. Despite the many mishaps, we managed to have a great time!!

Sheila tried many new foods including conch, land crab, mofongo, plantains, etc. She also got to practice using that spanish she learned in high school!!

On Monday we went to a little island, caja de muerto ( coffin island) the water is very clear. We spent the day swimming and snorkeling. This is the place we got burnt. We put spf 50 sunblock on and it was even a little cloudy. The next morning we woke up in pain. My lips had blisters on them and Sheila's back, chest, legs, arms were burnt! Not Fun!! We had to change plans around because of our sunburns. THat meant that we had to do a little more shopping than planned ( I know that is sad isn't it?) We went to Ponce, Old San Juan, and the rainforest. While hiking through the rainforest, a big storm came through. We got drenched and were not able to get in the big waterfall. The worst part about the storm was that our night kayaking trip got cancelled! We figured that was our sign that we would have been eaten by alligators (even though there arent alligators there). Since we didnt get to go kayaking our biggest adventure of the trip was probably trying to sit together in a hammock!! Maybe it was a good thing our kayak trip was canceled.

Brent, Lola, Benny, and I are leaving Tuesday for our 6 week summer break! We are so excited to see many friends and family. We will be in Colorado, Texas, and South Dakota! We hope to see many of you! We will probably continue the blog throughout the summer and definetly next year. Our first year in Puerto Rico was amazing and we are looking forward to next year! Thanks for reading! See you soon!