Mexico 3 Aquarium

The next day we went to the aquarium that Itze' works at. Above are some really cool jelly fish. Then they had this snapping turtle that you could pet with a worker next to you to make sure you were doing it right.
Then we went swimming with the dolphins. Swimming with the dolphins was one of the funnest things that we did there. I will work on getting the pictures from it and the video up for you to see. After we swam with the dolphins we walked around the shopping area waiting for the dolphin show. The next picture and video are from the show it was fun to watch but I have seen a much better show at Sea World.
They had two sets of dolphins, one set from the Pacific and one from the Atlantic Ocean. We swam with one set and then the other set put on the show. It turns out that the dolphins that did the show have a really funny fact. The lead dolphin is racist and hates fat people. It will refuse to swim if a Black or a Fat man is in the pool. They have no idea why but it refuses and it convinces the other dolphins not to swim either. Maybe that is why we swam with the other set, they got a look at me and figured they should give us the dolphins that will swim.

Mexico 2 X'carat

One of the first things we did was go to a place called X'Carrat. It is a preserve that was really fun to see and go around in. They had 2 man made rivers that you can snorkel down and see a lot of cool stuff. Then around the park they had a lot of historic Mexican recreations. In the picture above I am standing next to the playing field of an old Mayan game that you play with your hips. Later that day we got to see them actually play the game.
Below is a picture of Rene' next to some parrots. They were everywhere. For those of you can't find them they are green and over her shoulder.
At the end of the day we went to there show and saw them put on this really cool play of their history. This is where we saw the hip game and then they also played a game that was like hockey without the skates and where they lit the ball on fire. It was really fun to watch.
X'Carat also had some manatees and Rene' loved them we watched them for a long time and them we got this video.

Mexico 1 The Hotel

If you don't know Rene' and I went to Mexico at the end of June. I thought I would finally put the pictures of that trip on here for you to see. These first two were taken from our hotel lobby. Because of the swine flu not many people were going to Mexico at the time and we were able to book a 4 star hotel for the price of a 1 star. This made it really fun for us and we were really glad near the end because our hotel room was the only place we had air conditioning.
Here is Rene' showing off our room and bed (Which was really comfortable).
The next two pictures are the view from our room. if you went out on the balcony and looked straight down you would see the bottom of the building and then 10 feet away the ocean started. We could not get any closer.
At night if we left the door open then we could hear dolphins playing. It was really fun because we thought that we were just hearing birds but Itze' my friends wife told us it was dolphins.
I forgot to say why we went to Mexico. My very good friend was getting married to a girl from Cancun. We thought that it was a good excuse for us to go. We were there for 1 week and we are very grateful to my mother and father for watching Ethan for us.

We are back

Well we finally have the internet again. It has taken us a while but in the end we had to get it for school when you have two online classes then you don't have a choice but to get it. so here are some pictures just for fun. No commentary just clean old fun.

Some Quick Catch-Up

Here is Chris reading Ethan his bedtime story.

I love this picture because they both are SO into it.
Ethan loves to read stories and we love to read to him.

Look at that cool hat!
Ethan also loves to be outside, which gives him plenty of opportunity to wear his hat.

Our Ward had a Luau, complete with a roasted pig and chicken and a wonderful pineapple drink. They roasted the pig in the backyard of our apartment. Our neighbor is from Fiji, so it was actually authentic food. Yum, yum. This was Ethan's first neighborhood activity. Notice the hat again!

Ethan has learned how to scoot. He can't crawl yet, but he can cruise around the house. In this picture he made his way under Grandma Barlow's cabinet.

I'll post some pictures of our Cancun trip soon. But until then, here are some to look at.

Apple Sauce

I liked Beckys video and I remembered that I recorded one as well and it shows his face pretty well so I put this on here so you can see.

Phone

We have kept our old phones for this purpose. When Ethan sees our phones he loves them and always wants to play with them. So I got out one of our old ones and charged it and gave it to him. He loves it. I tried to get pictures of him playing with it but our camera beeps when it is focused, he hears it and then stares at the camera. So imagine him talking to the phone and yelling at it. Because that is what he was doing before I got out the camera.

I hope you appreciate these pictures. They took me a long time to get them taken.

Weekend

This last weekend Rene' and I went to visit my parents. Sadly for my father this usually means I have a project, and to hold to form i did. So instead of a nice relaxing weekend he got put to work helping me. I hope he know how much I appreciate the help. Because of his genius and ingenuity my project came out pretty cool.
This is a cabinet for my computer. It is to protect it from an ever moving curious baby. I think it will work well.


I also think that this would be a good time to thank my brother David. Who were it not for him this computer would not exist. He not only put it together but he has been willing to give up his days off to fix it whenever I break it, and only he knows how often that is (because i am not going to tell you.). So to David, may he never screen my calls.

Lounging about

Some where some how Ethan has learned that Rene' is a great place to lounge about. I could not agree more, I love it and so does he. The only difference is he gets to do it more often.
Last night he was fighting his naps with all he had. He absolutely refused to go to sleep. I think he missed 2 naps and it was getting close to bed time and so Rene' started to feed him. Well that got him and he was out. He would not wake up. So in the end he slept and Rene' got to hold him. I think Rene' won in both cases, she is good at winning.

Never Again

This will probably be the last time that you see Ethan with a bennie on his head. I put it on and he took it right off. He has decided that he does not like things on his head. He is fine if it is on his face but not his head.
Right after this picture he reached up and took off his bennie and threw it off the couch. I also think that he is all ready for St Patrick's Day.