the road less traveled

We’re up at Priest lake, Idaho (almost to Canada!!) with lots of old friends celebrating weddings and 60th birthdays! In honor of 3 men (including my dad) turning 60 this year, we decided to have an old folks olympics…… Team Depends & Team Botox. Ready, Get Set, GOoooooooo find your keys, dentures, and pain pills! … Continue reading Pugs on Team Depends

From Em — Well, we left Montana and ventured into Idaho….. for camping, floating in tubes down a river, mountain biking, hiking, bocce ball, and yesterday we got a tour of the very place where I was born- Moscow, Idaho. The University of Idaho is here- as well as a restaurant that my dad opened … Continue reading Mikey’s My Dad

Hi Y’all….. hello from Holland Lake, Montana! We’re on about day 10 & 11 of our road trip. One of my mom’s students this past year invited us up to her parent’s summer cabin- so she could hang out with Mrs. Anfinson in “real life.” What an incredible family!! 12, 8 and 6 years old- … Continue reading Mrs. Montana

As I lay in the hammock yesterday afternoon, Spencer was out climbing coconut trees and taking lessons from the “locals”….Upon his return, he came back quite humbled….It took him an hour to get just one coconut. While Spencer hung from the tree, a toothless barracho (drunk) that looked as if he were 80, stumbled over … Continue reading Campesinos

So I almost want to begin by saying that there’s something wrong with these pictures!…… There are ENDLESS coves exactly like this one- with NO ONE in sight! I didn’t go in the water for awhile, thinking that maybe this was like a high tiburon (shark) area…..But no- I guess Tico’s have too many other … Continue reading Looking Forward

We’ve been here for a couple days now- exploring different sides of the lake. What a breathtaking place this is! After spending a few days in Antigua, amidst colorful rows of shops and cafes (and MANY foreigners studying SPanish) we took a bus para el lago!! And let me tell you that bus ride was … Continue reading Lago de Atitlan, Guatemala

We’re in Antigua, Guatemala right now- It’s sooooo gorgeous!! The little town has a lot of character and charm, with many good cafes and shops!

We made it to la costa de El Salvador, only seeing one other white person along the way. It feels SO great to be back here…..And the Spanish is slowly but surely getting reacquainted with my mouth….But then again, it’s very nice to have someone fluent by my side :). It’s so fun for SPencer … Continue reading Greetings from (WAY) South of the Border

We got into Dominica this morning- On the south side of the island in a place called Rosea. It’s a pretty poor island- the poorest we’ve seen. Just about everyone on the ship except for The Kleins and one Anfinson went on an excursion. So SPencer and I set off to go explore on our … Continue reading Greetings from Dominica!

woooHOOOO!! I went to Kauai last weekend and returned with a ring, a fiance and so much Love! Spencer whisked me away on a scavenger hunt that began on Friday at 1:30 at our house on Oahu, and 24 hours later after being by myself and following 10 clues, I found myself walking down a … Continue reading the best hunt of my life

A letter I wrote to my Grandpa and his wife… Spencer (whom I met in Costa RIca, about 3 years ago) graduated college (from James Madison University in Virginia) and moved out here last June. We’ve been living together out here on the North Shore of Oahu together- really enjoying eachother’s company. He’s my best … Continue reading our nice little (or big!) life

Here We GO…2006!!! Remember freaking out about it being 2000? And now we’re 6 years in to this 2000 thing! I said good-bye to 2005 with a bang- a BIG one!! Annika got married and man, was it quite “The Wedding!!”… We spent 5 days out in Palm Desert getting ready for the wedding, and … Continue reading Bling in 2006

I’m doing well- Trying to stay strong and positive and patient while living in a tent- and of course, Content.:):) It’s actaully a pretty cool experience- I guess the only thing that I find hard is having everythign crammed in my car (which is working great, but we jsut got a flat tire:):)) and not … Continue reading Living, Camping, Working

Here’s part of an email I wrote to Spencer right after we found out that we had to move out of our house on the North Shore. It was October and the ASP World Tour was about to show up, which means it is next to impossible to find a place to stay (or live). … Continue reading (un)living situation

OH my GOSH!! Unbelievable. Well, looks like I’ll be sticking to my day job. Aloha Emily: By any chance, do you know Erin? … She just send us some feet pictures, she has great arches too. The reason I asked, the pictures have the same background and were taken in the same manner… Is she … Continue reading my feet will take me elsewhere

Living in Hawaii, you find that people have all sorts of odd jobs. Well, today I applied for my first odd job. Actually 2nd. The first was the whole “stuffing envelopes” thing that I totally got scammed on. But their promise of making $200 in a day was worth the $40 I lost to at … Continue reading Desperate for Work

A letter from Spencer to my mom So the red-eye home from Long Beach was an adventure….but I arrived…in once piece, if only physically. It was extremely painful to leave the girl of my dreams, but exciting at the same time. There’s nothing faith cannot cure.! The life we will lead will be the life … Continue reading fine dining

Hello! I think it’s been over a week since I wrote the last email. This week has been so amazing. Whenever you’re least expecting something, it happens. A group of 8 of us went south about two hours to Playa Nosara, a little surfing town on the beach. I love it! Definitely a place I … Continue reading Pink Island Angels

We had a soccer game against the teachers at school. I got “home” from school to get ready, and my mama tica (more like a college roommate) has the younger girls in town over and they were making pom poms and cutting up pineapple for the game. As soon as they saw me walking up, … Continue reading Soy peligrosa