Catching Up

Wow, it has been forever since I have posted here to let you know what I have been doing! It has been crazy, but I will try to remember most of it! LOL!
The last time I  talked to you, I was in Austin, Texas. I got sick while I was there, just a bad cold I think, but I ended up staying in bed for quite awhile.

Right before Thanksgiving we came back to Oklahoma after a Thanksgiving dinner with my family in Denton, Texas.
Then....things started happening so fast I didn't know what was going on! People I hadn't met before were moving in my house, we were moving out and it was just crazy! JT and I were playing hide and seek one day, trying to stay out of the way and we got stuck in a box!!!!!! We weren't able to get out until February 1st! Thank goodness we had each other or I would have been bored to death!

Feb. 4th, Gus and I got to leave with Grandpa and Grandma on a cruise to the Caribbean, specifically, the British Virgin Islands. The ship we went on was the biggest boat I had ever seen! But first we had to fly to Miami, Florida, then we "embarked", got on the ship.

 One of the first things we had to do once we got to our room and got our suitcases unpacked was to "muster". That means we had to all get our life jackets and meet in a certain place on the ship and learn how to abandon ship if something went wrong. We learned how to put on our life jackets and were our lifeboats were and what the signal was they would use to tell us to go to our lifeboats. Thank goodness we never had to use what we learned!

 One of the places we stopped had a really big water fall and we got to climb down to the bottom where the water collects in a pool. It was very rocky and hardto climb around, but the water was SO warm and fun! Gus went with me every where and he and I had alot of fun. It was very warm and we stopped for water and a snack before going back to the ship.

 One of the MOST fun things we got to do was ziplining! As you can see, we were all strapped in with lots of safety stuff so we would not fall. Gus and Grandpa were listening very carefully to the instructions in this picture. We were able to go on TWELVE zip lines! Grandpa and Gus were much better at it than Grandma and I. They were able to go all the way on all the lines facing forward just the way you were supposed to. Grandma kept twisting around in circles and going in backwards! She was scary to ride with. So the last two lines

which were very long and fast, a man who worked there came up and rode down with us so we would go in feet first like you are supposed to. It really was so much fun though, even if a bit scary. I want to do it again! (I lost my pants during one stop, but Grandpa got them for me, thank goodness!)

 Another stop, we took a tour of the island we were on and the lady that was talking to us showed us how bananas grow! Those tiny white things on the flower she is holding are the bananas when they are first starting to grow! It was really cool to see that. I knew bananas grew on trees, but did not know they started like this!

Here Gus and I are dressed for dinner on the ship. We were going to a fancy Asian restaurant that night. Grandpa and Grandma were taking FOREVER to get ready so Gus and I snuck down to the lobby and were sliding on the banisters of the stairs.  I guess we were not supposed to because pretty soon Grandma came and got us and she was pretty mad that the ship people had to call and tell on us. :( We got to go to dinner anyway! :)

I have lots more pictures, but wanted to get this off. I am hoping to come down to your classroom with Gus and talk to you more. I have to get with Ms. Paradise and find out when a good time would be. Hopefully I will be better about posting more often!