The Nanna Sandwich

At the end of our visit to Cozumel it was time to say goodbye to Nana and grandpa. The Girls sandwiched their grandmother and the results were this great picture. By far one of my favorite pictures. Its a testament of the love these girls have for their grandmother.

Our Crazy Girls

Cheyenne getting a henna tattoo.

Jason and Denna Kaupoua (sp?) and Randy and Sonda Pawlenchuck. It was so much fun spending time together with old friends. What a treat.

Tulum

When we got to Playa Del Carmen, Nana and Grandpa met Tanisha, Sierra and I near the Ferry. While John and the two oldest girls headed off to tulum with the LDS tour. We along with Sonda and Randy Pawlenchuck went on our own down to Tulum. We met up with the rest of the family and our friends and played on the beach at Tulum. Wow.. what a great beach that is. I could have spend hours playing down there. It was a large cliff with a small beach area. It was definitely worth the visit. Tulum is a beautiful location. Its a very majestic location, we all had a great time.

Our First Stop - Cozumel

Our first stop was Cozumel. We all got off the boat and headed straight over to wait for a ferry to take us to the main land, Playa Del Carmen. While waiting of course we couldn't resist the fun pictures of Malia, Tanisha, Sierra and Stan Brown Surfing a huge wave. Do you think it looks real?

















This Crazy group of people is the Carter and Brown Clan. One Big Happy mixed race Family.. Can you see the resemblance. Cheyenne asked me the other day if Browns could adopt her. That way she could really be related to both of us.

Malia is 16

Malia turned 16 Nov 20. I am so proud to call her my daughter. She has grown up to become such a fun, faithful, virtuous, creative, accomplished young woman. For her birthday she requested a dinner out with her family. So we went to the Chinese buffet where they serve everything from sushi to frogs legs. It was a nice dinner, but I have decided once and for all I hate buffets. I like to take home the leftovers and you never get too with a buffet. You spend more and really get less.. John of course can eat like a maniac but the rest of us can really only do one plate full. So its a waste in my mind.

The Boa in the Backyard

The Boa had already killed it prey when we arrived. Dad freed the Zorro from its mouth so we could see the whole process.


Here is the first stage.. open wide!



He would literally inch his own body overtop of the Zorro's body.. using his snake skills. It was amazing.


When Mr. Boa got down to the zorro's legs it used its body to fold up the legs of the Zorro into a cylinder for easier eating. By wrapping itself around the body and squeezing it. very interesting.. it was at this point I couldnt resist touching the snake.. It was very neat.


This afternoon our foreman, Moises, came up to the house asking us to bring the camera and follow him. My dad had some sort of snake he wanted us to see. So we followed Moises, who was brandishing a large machete into the jungle (our backyard). Moises cut a pathway for us into the brush and we followed for quite a ways. As we neared we could hear my dad yelling to hurry up cause he was worried the snake would get away. What we discovered when we got there was my dad wrestling this 6-8 foot long Boa constrictor for his dinner. The Boa had caught himself a nice dinner of Zorro ( a small fox like creature) and the workers along with my dad had heard the screams of the Zorro. They chased the screams to find this huge boa. My dad ever the crocodile Dundee sent for us so we could see this very exciting thing. He had to hold on the the tail of the Zorro to stop the Boa from further devouring it. Crazy Guy. This is what we saw. We were so close to it as it ate (only cause it was so occupied) that I was able to touch it a couple of times although it did hiss at me. .. I didn't have my long lens so I got pretty close about 2 feet from it. As you can imagine my mom was freaked out, worried that it was going to devour one of us.. But after I explained that it was very occupied in the art of feeding that there was little to fear at this point. Maybe after his meal was done I would get back.. but he really wasn't all that interested in us. We were far to big for his mouth.