Our Family’s Journey to China: June 2009

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Miami Dolphin Camp

Nara, Julia and Zach enjoyed this week at Miami Dolphin Cheerleading and Football Camp. Colleen and I spent the week in Miami at Hard Rock Hotel so the kids could attend the camp. We had a great time. The girls learned about cheer leading, dancing and had daily etiquette lessons from the Miami Dolphin Cheerleaders.
We spent the evenings at the hotel. We loved the pool, slide and going to dinner in the many restaurants in the hotel. Colleen and I spent the mornings working out and even going to the hotel spa.
The kids ended the week with a football game and a cheerleading performance. The girls did great and Zach and his football team won so many games that they went to the super bowl. We spotted a few players and the kids got the chance to meet a few Dolphins.

The kids get to participate in a pre-season and a regular season Dolphin game. We are really looking forward to the Miami Dolphin football games.

Miami Dolphin Cheerleading Camp

Miami Dolphin Cheerleaders

Nara with one of her teachers

Julia and Nara and the teacher

Nara's Teacher

The Final Gameday

Hard Rock Hotel Pool

Z and N

Hard Rock Hotel

The slide was a favorite spot

Miami Dolphin Camp

In the bubble

the girls watching Z

Miami Dolphin Summer Camp

Dolphin Training Camp Stands

Julia in the Dance Studio with her tea hat

N and J in the studio

Back Home!

Nara and I have made it back from Miami Dolphin Chaeerleading Camp. We had a great time and Nara did great. She really loved hanging out with her cousins . I will post pictures soon.

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Our Sixth Wedding Anniversary

Our Fifth wedding Anniversary we spent several days in Melbourne Beach Florida

Our Second Anniversary in Europe. We spent three weeks traveling around Europe

Our First Anniversary We spent the weekend at Universal. Before going to Universal we went to a friends wedding

Today is our 6th wedding Anniversary. We were married June 21 2003 at 7 p.m.
We were married at the Palm Cottage in Naples Florida. My biggest memory of the day is all of the rain. It started raining at 5 pm and rained the rest of the evening. It was a beautiful ceremony.
Below I have included some of our of anniversary pictures through the years.
I told Rick that we needed to write this down because we are starting to forget what special things we have done each year.
1st Anniversary we spent the weekend at Universal. We had dinner at Little Italy
2nd Anniversary we spent three weeks in Europe. We traveled to Amsterdam, Italy, Paris, London and Luxembourg
3rd Anniversary we went back to Universal
4th Anniversary we spent the weekend at Naples Beach Club
5th Anniversary we spent a week in Melbourne Beach Florida
We went to lunch today and decided to have a low key anniversary. We are still recovering from our trip to New York.
Thanks for reading this and sharing in our memory of this special day. Happy Fathers day and I hope everyone has a great first day of summer.

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Our trip to New York City

We had a great time in New York City. We started our trip by driving over to Fort Lauderdale and then flying to NYC at a very early 5 am. It was a smooth flight. We had a great time exploring the city. Rick and I have gone several times but this is the first time that we brought Nara and Devon.
Nara brought her scooter with her. She really enjoyed scooting through NYC. We started our stay in NYC by going to the World Trade Center Site. That site always leaves me so proud of America and of New York. It is sad to see the loss of life but the American Spirit shines.
We went to the ESPN Zone, Hard Rock and Dave and Busters. Nara and Devon loved all of the games. They even one Lily and Violet a few gifts.
Nara enjoyed the rides in Toy’s r us and the Central Park play areas and the Merry-go-round
Every day we spent some time in Central Park. We rode bikes, climbed the rocks and walked all over the park.

We spent one evening in China Town and Little Italy and we all love the subway.
We were tired when we came home but it was a great trip.