Cruisin

Day 1 Sunday
We flew to Houston and took a shuttle bus to the port. We had to wait in line for an hour and a half to get on the ship, and finally got on about 2:00. We immediately hit the buffet while we waited for our luggage to come. Yummy! Then we checked out our room, and the rest of the ship. It is huge. We are on the same floor as the buffet, so we don’t have to walk far, but we take the stairs all the time. Plus there is a walking track. Our luggage finally came just before 6, but we took off for the dinner. We eat at six in this fancy restaurant. You pick off the menu and they treat you so wonderfully. There is always a show after dinner. That night it was a variety show with dancers.


Day 2 and 3 were Days at Sea. We ate and ate and ate and walked the track 3 times a day. We also swam in the pool. It is salt water, but the hot tub is not. I got a nice little sunburn. But I really look a lot better with sun on me. The weather is sunny and blue skies. We basically did whatever we wanted to all day long.
I celebrated my birthday on Day 3. We ate at the fancy restaurant and I had two Chocolate Melting Cakes! Then the waiters brought another small cake with a candle on it and sang to me. Can’t believe I’m 50!

Texas

We are down visiting warm and sunny Texas, and the kids and grandkids. Caden is a doll, so fun to play with. I took him for a walk today and we saw frogs jumping from a pond, a hawk eating a snake, ant hills by the dozen, and blue sky and sun! 

We held the baby most the day, and enjoyed looking at her cute face. She is a doll. Dark hair, tiny, very quiet. Caden is really good with her. He is a big helper!

Kevin

Kevin got hit in the face with another kid's head during basketball. I was called at school to come pick him up and take him to the hospital. We spent 6 hours there. He had an MRI, an IV, a morphine injection, and pain.  We found out he has a broken orbit bone. He missed a couple of days of school, but seems to be doing fine now. He is a tough kid.  He is now on antibiotics, and pain pills, and no contact sports for a month.

golfing for Kevin

Kevin loves golfing!  He has been going every time he gets a chance. His seminary teacher even took him on Monday.

OUCH!!

Poor Kevin!

I had just stepped into the office today at work to deliver a naughty student to the principal, and the secretary handed me the phone and told me it was the nurse calling from Chugiak High School because Kevin was hurt. He was playing basketball at lunch and some kid ran backwards into Kevin as he was turned sideways. Hit him with the back of his head and fractured Kevin's orbit bone in his face. 

I took him to the emergency room and there we spent 5 hours waiting, and waiting, and finally getting a CAT scan, and told he had fractured his orbit in two places!  He is on heavy meds and will be the ENT doctor on Thursday. 

He is in a lot of pain and right after taking a pain pill threw it all up.  Hasn't eaten since lunch. And he usually eats a ton!  You can't even imagine how much he eats!  He is over 6 feet tall now. Towers over me.  Texts all the time, is doing pretty well at school except for English.  No basketball for a while!

New Grand-daughter

We are so excited to have a new grand-daughter.  We will be heading down to see her soon!

Fishing in Alaska

Rich had a wonderful time with friends fishing on the Kenai. They floated down the river in a boat and caught tons of fish, but then let them all go. It was a male bonding day!