Honduras (aka Fantasy Island)

No really....it was called "Fantasy Island" I am not kidding. We had our own little small island, the only thing that was on it was our resort. We had private lagoons and coves all to ourselves with unlimited shore diving and 3 boat dives a day! A DIVER'S PARADISE! Plus we were with a big group of 90-100 people from Indy who were LOADS of fun! We can't wait to take another trip with them soon. I am going to stop typing so I have room for more photos!

Fourth of July on the River

We spent the fourth on the Tippecanoe river. We did some camping and canoeing with some great company. We had a wonderful time sharing old stories and lighting off fireworks from the water. We even did a night float, which was scary yet fun at the same time. Tubing in the morning was very cold, but I had the best float ever and never even touched the water. Poor Jonathan was freezing because his body was almost entirely submerged! Here are some photos!


Night Float and our "BIG Bad Ass Shells"

Various Lake Pics

Here are some of my favorite lake pics from the summer of 2008. The pics have been taken at Freeman and Maxinkuckee.

Noodle Bonging

Right before the HUGE spill

On a bad ass Mastercraft

Yes, that is pit sweat that wraps around his back and meets in the middle. They asked me to come on stage and "surf" on his back while Surfin USA was playing....um gross!

Indy 500

I headed down south to the Indy 500, for my second year in attendance. I stayed again with Ryan and Danny at their campsite which is great to be around old friends. Its nice to be around the people who have known you the longest and create many more lasting memories to add to our ever growing bank of great times. I ended up getting to spend some time with Jonathan there too because our campsites were so close. And for the first time I got to sit in the stands! Although I had a minor set back with some Moonshine thats why there aren't too many pics, it was overall a spectacular time and I can't wait until next year!

Spring Break to Sarasota

We headed down last Spring Break to visit Jonathan's friend Nick Fouts down in Sarasota. We drove moms van down so we would have more space and we would be able to take our scuba gear. It took us a day and a half to get there and we spent Saturday- Friday. We had a great time hanging on the beach, spending a day diving at West Palm Beach, and going out to the local bars with Nick. Plus it was nice to get away for awhile and enjoy a more laid back and warm lifestyle! Here are a few pics.

Christy and Craig's Wedding

Christy and Craig got married in March. It was a great ceremony out at Oakbrook. Perfect weather that day and the church looked very pretty. The reception was at the Country Club and the bunch of us all had a great time into the early hours of the morning. I was able to catch up with people I hadn't seen in a long, long time and her DJ kept us dancing all night long! Congrats guys! Luv ya!




Bachelorette Party Pics too

Birthdays?

Well...I am still playing catch up---I think I am into mid-February of our past events, so even though its August...thats not quite accurate. ANYWAY....I forgot to post about our birthdays! I turned 25...ugh, and my bro turned 22. I went to Indy for my birthday, no one came but Jonathan...yah I know boy am I a loser...people had excuses excuses....and Andrew went to Indy and it turned into a heck of a drunken yelling fight. Oh did I mention my mom wrote "Happy Half a Century" on my card by mistake? She meant to write Quarter of a Century she said...but hey what else could go wrong right? Nice mom, thanks. Anyway, at least I got a Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Cake.


My Birthday

Andrew's Birthday

Our World Underwater Scuba Convention

We attended a yearly scuba diving convention up in Chicago for the weekend. It was held at a huge convention center and different scuba diving vendors were set up. There were people with booths full of new gear and equipment, the latest new technology and resorts and cruises lines offering great deals on dive trips. They had a pool set up where you could learn to dive, and the racecar team was there from Team Scuba which we got to get in the trailer and the driver was there for us to meet.

Jonathan and I got offered a spot on a reality tv show. It was a scuba diving reality show where a group of divers are put on a boat and go on vacation for a few weeks. They film our diving and then the activity on the boat as well, and then the company was going to try and sell the film to Discovery Channel or something along those lines. We sat and talked for awhile with the company and the filmmaker, and they really wanted us on because we were a young "cute" couple. and we said we love to party, so they thought we would be some fun to have. BUUUUUUTTTTT the trip was planned of ALLL WEEKS......DURING ISTEP.....as soon as I found that out, I about threw the waiver across the entire convention center. Even if I would have had the courage to ask for the time off, I would have felt selfish to leave my students during such a crucial week. I know I am lame, Jonathan wasn't very happy, but then we found out after looking closer at the waiver that we had to pay for some of our way, and it was halfway around the world, sooo we probably wouldn't have had the money saved up to go anyway. But anyway, we plan on going to the convention again next year, and maybe they will have another type of thing going on but during a different time of year. After the convention we also attended a film festival. Short films from famous scuba diving filmmakers were shown. These films would later air on television if they were bought that night at the festival. We saw some neat things like a swimming elephant that used his trunk as a snorkel!

Here are the pics.....