June 29, 2009

Zip line adventures

On Sunday of our Mexico trip we went to a place to go zip lining. The company was Canopy River, and if you're ever in Puerto Vallarta, I highly recommend them. We did some short training first, and then we were off! There were 12 zip lines, they went all over this river valley, back and forth, lower higher and some were very fast and some were slower. One of them the speed got up to 40 miles per hour. I came speeding into that one so fast I almost kicked the camera man in the face. The day before I'd gotten sunburned and was also kind of sick with Montezuma's revenge. (Yeesh) So Sunday I didn't eat a big breakfast, and didn't drink enough, and during some of the hiking between zip lines I started to feel overheated and sick and migrainy. So they let me skip two lines while everyone else went in, and I took off my helmet and drank some water. I started to feel better and was able to finish off the trip. The last two lines took us down to the bottom of the river valley and then we rode back up to the top of the mountain on mules. Never ridden a mule before. The mule in front of mine kept stopping to eat. And the guy riding him couldn't get him to start again. It was hilarious. Also, he only spoke Spanish and I couldn't really speak Spanish, so I just giggled. Anyway, despite the sickness we had a really good time. It was my favorite part of the trip. Here are some pictures of our adventures, unfortunately, no mule shots.













Oh, Mexico

Here are some pictures from our trip to Mexico, we had a good time and I barely got burned.

Flying in to Puerto Vallarta

We had to fly out over the ocean and come back in to land, because the mountains are so close to the beach. Breathtaking.

Our bedroom

The view from our room

Walking on the beach. Who knew it was rainy season?

Los Arcoles (I don't remember if that's right)

These rocks that have archs carved out of the bottom by the water, can't really see it from here.

Going out to dinner one night.

A hanging bridge over a river.

The coast, it was beautiful

On the hanging bridge. A little scary.

Some of the stuff we bought for ourselves and for others.

The sunset one night.

The zip line place

Hanging out.

The truck that took us to the zip line place.


A surfer


A famous cathedral in downtown Puerta Vallarta

She was beading that puma by hand.


Musicians serenading some diners

Some sand sculptures

Very cool


A tiny lizard in our hotel room

June 04, 2009

Wedding weekend

Siblings

Christa, Michael and Kirk at the rehearsal

On the way to the rehearsal dinner at the Spaghetti Factory

Old friends

SIsters

Good times

Sister-in-law Rahel and Grandma Jeanne


All ready to go

Gorgeous

Beautiful view

Me and mom




Me and Dino

Happy couple

Musicians

Michael performed the ceremony

Post-wedding bliss

We put up all the decorations the morning-this was my job, besides being matron of honor.

We made about 1,000 cranes

Best buds


And they're off