ON SAT. AFTERNOONISH CLAY AND KAREN AND I LEFT FOR UTAH AND OUR CRUISE TO THE WEST INDIES. WE MET CJ, LENELL AND PENNY FOR A B/D DINNER FOR CJ AS HE HAD JUST HAD ANOTHER ONE ON THE 27TH. WAS SO FUN TO BE WITH THEM ALL AND ENJOY SOME TIME WITH OUR FAMILY. PENNY LEFT HER CAR AT CJ'S AND AFTER DINNER CJ AND LENEL RETURNED TO THEIR FAMILY AND WE HEADED OUT TO FIND ALLEN AND TEELA'S.
WE ARRIVED AT ALLEN AND TEELA'S A SHORT TIME BEFORE GETTING THE TROOPS LOADED IN THE SHUTTLE TEELA HAD LINED UP FOR US. WE LEFT OUR CARS AT ALLEN AND TEELA'S. WAS NICE NOT TO HAVE TO PARK CARS AT THE AIRPORT. WITH THE LUGGAGE ON A TRAILER GOING AHEAD OF US AND THE PASSENGERS PACKED IN LIKE SARDINES WE HEADED FOR THE S.L.C. AIRPORT. WE CHECKED IN AND MADE OUR WAY TO THE LOADING AREA FOR OUR FLIGHT ON DELTA. JOSSINE AND LYLE MET US AT THE SORENSEN'S ALSO AND WE ALL THREE HAD SCOOTERS AND I HAD A WHEEL CHAIR TO GET AROUND THE AIRPORT. WE FLEW OUT ABOUT 12:30A.M. ON THE 30'TH OF AUGUST. WE LANDED IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA THEN ON TO SAN JUAN ARRIVING THERE STILL ON THE 30TH. TEELA HAD A SHUTTLE ARAINGED AND WE WENT FROM AIRPORT TO OUR CARNIVAL CRUISE LINE SHIP. LEFT SAN JUAN AT 10P.M. AFTER GETTING ABOARD AND FINDING OUR ROOMS. MY RENTED WHEEL CHAIR WAS IN THE ROOM AS PROMISED. I DIDN'T USE IT A WHOLE LOT AS I'D STARTED WALKING IN THE A.M HERE AT HOME AND THEN ADDED THE P.M.S TO BUILD MY STRENGTH FOR THE TRIP. HOW EVER IT WAS GOOD TO HAVE THE WHEELCHAIR AT TIMES WHEN I FELT TIRED AND MAYBE LAZY WOULD BE A BETTER WORD. I TOOK THE CANE SCOTT GOT FOR GRANDPA ON ONE OF HIS TRIPS AND I DO LOVE HAVING IT O USE.
OUR FIRST ISLAND WAS ST. THOMAS WHERE WE HAD A TOUR OF THE ISLAND THAT KAREN AND SUSAN ARAINGED THAT WAS FUN AND ENJOYED BEING WITH FAMILY. THE TAXI'S TOOK US TO SEE THE TOURIST SIGHTS AND WE WERE IN SEPERATE TAXI'S FROM JOSSINE, LYLE STEWART AND SUSAN BUT SAW EACH OTHER AT THE STOPS ON THE WAY. WE ALL ATE GOOD ON BOARD SHIP BEFORE TAKEING THE TOUR.WE GOT BACK TO CHOW DOWN ON THE SHIP AGAIN AND AGAIN. I LOOKED ON EACH ISLAND FOR THIMBLES AND NATIVITIES. KAREN AND PENNY HELPED ME BUT KAREN WAS INTERESTED IN GETTING TABLE CLOTHS AND RUNNERS. SHE AND PENNY EACH GOT THE TABLE CLOTHS AND PENNY BOUGHT ME A TABLE RUNNER FOR THE COFFEE TABLE NOW I WISH I'D HAVE GOTTEN A TABLE CLOTH TO MATCH. HIND SITE ALWAYS LOOKS BETTER THAN DO IT NOW. I DID GET A THIMBLE NO NATIVITY ON ST. THOMAS. PENNY AND KAREN DIDN'T FIND A TABLE CLOTH THERE EITHER. WE SAILED OUT OF ST. THOMAS AROUND 5P.M. AT LEAST WE HAD TO BE ABOARD SHIP BY THEN AND LEFT SOON AFTER.
TUESDAY SEPT 1ST WE ARRIVED ON DOMINICA AT 10 A.M. IT WAS SORTA STORMY THAT DAY BUT CLAY AND KAREN HAD LINED UP A SNORKLE TRIP AND PENNY AND I WERE ON OUR OWN. WHEN THE SNORKLERS GOT TO THEIR DESTINATION THE TRIP WAS CANCELLED DUE TO THE BAD STORM THAT HAD ARRIVED. I STILL FEEL BAD THEY DIDN'T GET TO SNORKLE THERE BUT HAPPY THEY CAME BACK SAFE. I THINK THAT WAS A FUN PLACE TO LOOK FOR THIMBLES AND NATIVITIES. I DID GET A THIMBLE THERE AND NO NATIVITIES. WHAT A BUMMER. WE ATE GOOD ON BOARD THE SHIP AND ENJOYED THE FAMILY MEMBERS AND OTHERS OF THE GROUP WHO WENT . IN OUR GROUP THERE WAS 42 FOLKS. TEELA HAD INVITED SO MANY FROM THEIR WARD IT MADE FOR A BIG PARTY.
WEDNESDAY OUR ARRIVAL TIME WAS 8 AM ON BARBADOS. FOUND A THIMBLE NO NATIVITY. ENJOYED LOOKING AROUND AND I THINK THAT WAS WHERE KAREN AND PENNY FOUND THE TABLECLOTHS AND RUNNERS. IT WAS FUN WATCHING THEM LOOK AT ALL THAT WAS IN THE SHOP AND CHOOSE WHAT THEY LIKED. THEN PENNY GAVE ME MY B/D GIFT EARLY AND I DO LOVE THAT RUNNER.
I THINK ST. LUCIA WAS WHERE CLAY AND KAREN GOT TO SNORKLE. PENNY AND I FOUND OUR WAY AROUND AND GOT A THIMBLE. STILL NO NATIVITY. WE ARRIVED THERE AT 8 AM ALSO. LEFT AT 5 P.M. WE EAT SEVERAL TIMES DURING THE DAY.
ANTIGUA ARRIVAL WAS 8A.M. AND WE HAD A TOUR THERE THE DIRTY'S ISLAND WE SAW. HOW EVER WE DID GET A THIMBLE FOR ME AND FOUND A NATIVITY MADE IN A GOURD.SO IT WASN'T A TOTAL LOSE FOR NATIVITIES. I GOT ONE FOR ME AND ONE FOR THIRSA. SHE GOT MY MAIL AND PAPERS IN WHILE I WAS AWAY. SHE WAS SO PLEASED I THOUGHT OF HER. HOW COULD I NOT WHEN SHE HAS AS MANY AROUND HER HOME AT CHRISTMAS AS I DO MAYBE MORE. PENNY SAID IT'S STRANGE THE DIRTY'S ISLAND HAD A NATIVITY!!! WE LEFT AT 6 PM. ON FRIDAY SEPT 4TH SAILING AT NITE AS USUAL. ONE OF THE EVENINGS KAREN INVITED US TO COME SIT ON THEIR DECK AND WATCH AS WE LEFT HEADED OUT TO ANOTHER ISLAND. IT STARTED TO RAIN SO WE ENJOYED WATCHING THE OCEAN AND RAIN FOR A BIT THEN WENT BACK TO GET OUR BEAUTY REST FOR THE NIGHT. OUR ROOM WAS ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE SHIP FROM ALMOST EVERYONE ELSE. JOSSINE AND LYLE UPGRADED SO THEY COULD HAVE THEIR SCOOTERS CLOSE BY. SO THEY WERE ON ANOTHER DECK SUSAN AND STEWART WAS ON A LOWER DECK SO THEY COULD AFFORD TO GO. THEY WERE A GOOD HELP TO THE SAUREY'S.
ON SAT. MORNING AT 7 AM WE ARRIVED AT ST. KITTS MY FAVORITE ISLAND. WE HAD TOURS ARRANGED AND AFTER FILLING OUR BELLIES WE FOUND OUR TAXI'S AND WHAT A NICE TOUR WE HAD. THERE IS A PLACE THAT HAS A FORT THAT AFTER THE SPANIARD'S ARE FRENCH HAD GONE IN AND KILLED ALL THE NATIVES THEY BROUGHT SLAVES IN TO BUILD A FORTRESS. THAT WAS SOME THING TO SEE. KAREN IS THE ONLY ONE OF OURS AND SUSAN AND STEWART WENT TO THE TOP WHERE THE REAL STUFF WAS. IT LOOKED TOO FORMIDABLE FOR ME CLAY AND JOSSINE AND LYLE AND PENNY SOME HOW MISSED THE TROOPS GOING UP SO SHE STAYED BEHIND ALSO. I THINK SHE WAS SO BUSY TAKING PICTURES SHE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS HAPPENING. I STILL MARVEL AT WHAT THOSE SLAVES DID CUTTING ROCK AND HAULING UP ON THE MTN TO BUILD WALLS AND THEN BUILDING SOME AROUND LOWER ON THE MTN. AND PLACES UP AND DOWN THAT MOUNTAIN. WE HAD A SODA AND SANDWICH WHILE WAITING FOR THE OTHERS TO COME DOWN OFF THE HILL TOP. WE WERE WARM AND TRIED TO FIND PLACES TO SIT IN THE SHADE AT THE LITTLE TOURIST TRAP. ON THE SIDE OF THE MTN. THANKS KAREN FOR ARAINGING OUR TOURS. IT WAS SO ENJOYABLE.
ONE THING I NOTICED WHILE TRAVELING AROUND THE ISLANDS WAS HOW SMALL THE HOMES ARE AND HOW SMALL THE APARTMENTS IN THE BUILDINGS ARE. I WAS SO THANKFUL FOR MY HOME. I'M SURE THOSE PEOPLE ARE THANKFUL FOR WHAT THEY HAVE ALSO. YOU'D SEE OLD MEN SITTING IN THEIR DOORWAYS JUST ENJOYING THE DAY AND PEOPLE WHO PASSED BY. I NOW WISH I'D HAVE WRITTEN SOME NOTES ON OUR TRIP SO I COULD REFER BACK AND GIVE A BETTER REPORT OF OUR TRAVELS.
WE ARRIVED BACK AT SAN JUAN ON SUNDAY AT 7 :AM ON SUNDAY. THE CHECKING THRU THE TERMINAL WAS A NIGHT MARE. THEY HELPED THEM SELVE TO ONE OF MY FULL BOTTLES OF MARY KAYE PLUS A SPRAY ANDRA GAVE ME FOR CHRISTMAS. IT WAS ABOUT 3/ 4TH'S EMPTY. I WONDER WHEN THEY TAKE THAT STUFF WHAT DO THEY DO WITH IT. WAS IT SOME THING THE LADY WANTED FOR HER USE??? I SHOULD HAVE PUT THE MARY KAYE IN MY CHECK ON BAG SO IT WAS MY FAULT I LOST IT. WHEN CLAY KAREN PENNY AND I GOT CHECKED OUT ALL THE OTHERS STILL IN LINE SOME PLACE. THERE WAS NO PLACE TO SIT AND IT WAS HOT. KAREN GOT A TAXI FOR US AND PENNY DECIDED TO STAY BEHIND SO THE OTHERS KNEW WE HAD GONE TO THE AIRPORT TO SIT DOWN IN THE COOL. I WONDER HOW PENNY STOOD AROUND ALONE SO LONG WAITING FOR THE OTHERS. SHE DID GET TO GO IN TO USE THE RESTROOM AND FOUND A THIMBLE SO I'D HAVE ONE FROM SAN JAUN. WHEN WE GOT TO THE AIRPORT I FOUND A THIMBLE ALSO. I HAVE TWO AND LOVE THEM BOTH.
WE FLEW OUT OF SAN JUAN THAT EVENING LANDED IN ATLANTA AND WHAT A NIGHT MARE IT WAS. THEY TOOK US TO ONE TERMINAL WHERE WE SAT WAITING FOR A LONG TIME TO CATCH OUR FLIGHT. OF COURSE THE AIRPORT TOOK MY WHEEL CHAIR WHEN WE GOT LEFT. THERE WAS ONE THAT SHOWED UP AND I SHOULD HAVE SAT IN IT BUT SOME ONE TOOK IT FOR THEIR CHILDREN TO PLAY IN ACROSS FROM US. WHEN IT WAS TIME TO BE SENT OFF DOWN THE TERMINAL A FAR PIECE PENNY GOT THE WHEEL CHAIR AND BROUGHT IT BACK FOR MY RIDE TO THE SUPPOSEDLY PLACE OUR PLANE WOULD LEAVE FROM. IT WAS A FAR PIECE BACK FROM WHERE WE STARTED TO FIND THE FIRST STOP. AFTER SOME TIME THERE WE AGAIN HAD TO MOV ON DOWN BACK FROM WHERE WE WERE TO ALMOST THE ENTRY OUT INTO THAT LONG HALL WE'D TRAVELED TO GET TO THE FLIGHT TERMINAL IN THE FIRST PLACE. THEY DID LET US BOARD THE PLANE FROM THAT ONE. IT WAS ABOUT MIDNIGHT WHEN WE ARRIVED IN SLC. OUR SHUTTLE FOLKS WAS WAITING AND WE GOT TO ALLEN AND TEELA'S AND KAREN WANTED TO GET HOME TO HER BED SO WE DROVE TILL 5:30 A.M. TO MY HOUSE. ALLEN AND TEELA INVITED US TO STAY OVER NITE. JOSSINE LYLE AND PENNY DID STAY AND JOSSINE AND LYLE WAS COMING TO REXBURG SO THEY DROPPED PENNY OFF AT CJ'S TO GET HER CAR. I DIN'T SLEEP WELL THAT DAY BUT MADE UP FOR IT MONDAY NIGHT. AWOKE AT 9 AM THE NEXT DAY.
I HAD AN APPOINTMENT WITH MY DR. ON THURSDAY AND WAS COUGHING UP GUNK HE GAVE ME AN ATTIBIOTIC AND THE YELLOW WENT AWAY BUT I STILL HAVE THICK CLEAR STUFF MOST DAYS. MY HEART ARRYTHMIA IS MOSTLY GONE AND B/P WAS GOOD. AS I CHECK MY PULSE THE OFF BEAT IS LESS AND LESS. I HAVE MORE ENERGY MOST OF THE TIME.
AT SUNDAY DINNER I WAS INVITED TO GO WITH CLAY, KAREN AND LANIE ON LANIES VACATION TO VIRGINIA CITY AND LEWIS AND CLARK CAVERNS. I'D BEEN THERE TWICE BEFORE SO KNEW THE CAVE. I CHOSE TO STAY BACK AT THE CAR THIS TIME AS THE TWO MILE HICK SOUNDED TO HARD FOR ME. EMIE AND I STAYED AROUND THE GIFT SHOP AND I DID ENJOY WATCHING THE PEOPLE WHO CAME. ONE LADY DROVE UP GOT OUT IN FLIP FLOPS WENT INTO THE GIFT SHOP AND CAME OUT GOT IN HER CAR AND LEFT I'M NOT SURE WHERE SHE WAS FROM BUT HER LICSENCE WAS DIFFERENT FROM MONT. OR IDAHO. WHEN I THOUGHT HOW FAR SHE CAME TO SEE THE CAVERNS AND IN FLIP FLOPS I FELT BAD FOR HER THAT SHE COULDN'T SEE THE BEAUTY OF THAT PLACE. SO LET IT BE A LESSON TO ANY ONE GOING TO A CAVERN ANY PLACE WEAR SOLID SHOES. LANIE HAD SANDALS ON AND DID OK. IT TOOK ABOUT TWO HOURS FOR THEM TO SEE THE CAVERN AND GET BACK. CLAY HAD FALLEN INSIDE THE CAVERN AND BLED REALLY GOOD HE STILL HAS SOME DARK SPOTS ON HIS ARM.
LANIE TOLD MOST OF THE GOOD TIME WE HAD ON HER BLOG. EMIE STAYED IN THE CAR LONG ENOUGH FOR ME TO GO FIND A THIMBLE. SHE WAS SO EXCITED TO SEE CLAY, KAREN AND LANIE WHEN THEY GOT BACK. THERE WAS A FELLOW WHO PARKED BY US AND HAD A DOG THAT EMIE BARKED AT OFF AND ON TILL THEY EITHER LEFT ARE MOVED THE CAR. THEN ANOTHER GUY PARKED A CAR ARE SO AWAY AND FOR SOME REASON SHE DIDN'T LIKE HIM AND BARKED LIKE CRAZY
EVERY TIME HE CAME AROUND. HE FINALLY LEFT TO GO ON THE NEXT TOUR OF THE CAVERN. WE HEADED OFF TO SEE VIRGINIA CITY BUT ALL BUT ONE STORE WAS CLOSED I FOUND A THIMBLE THERE AND AFTER LOOKING AROUND THE STORE WE LEFT FOR HOME. NO PLACE OPEN TO EAT IN V.C. SO WE WENT TO ENID AND LANIE TOLD OF THE GOOD YUMMY FOOD. THEIR PRICES WAS'NT TO AWFUL EITHER. WE GOT HOME LATE BUT WAS SUCH A GOOD DAY.
ON THE 16TH I HAD LUNCH WITH MELBA AND JEANETTE. IT WAS MY TURN TO CHOOSE SO WENT TO BAJIO'S. WAS FUN BEING WITH THEM AND VISITING. THE 17TH WAS OVER 60'S LUNCH AT THE CHURCH . NOT AS MANY THERE BUT THE FOOD WAS EXCELLENT AS USUAL.
THE MAIN LINE ON MY SPRINKLER HAD SPRUNG A LEAK AND LEVI CAME ON FRIDAY AND REPAIRED IT. THEN LAST WEEK WHEN CLAY AND JIM MOWED JIM TOLD CLAY THERE WAS ANOTHER LEAK BUT I DIDN'T HEAR ABOUT IT TILL I FOUND IT WHILE RAKING THE REST OF THE GRASS IN THE BACK YARD. LEVI WAS COMING FRIDAY BUT DIDN'T MAKE IT. I'M REAL CONCERNED AS I DON'T WANT MY PIPES TO FREEZE UP LIKE LAST YEAR.
CLAY THOUGHT WE SHOULD GO TO PROVO TO SEE DARLEEN AGAIN AND LANIE WAS OFF ON SATURDAY SO WE THREE WENT TO PROVO. KAREN WAS SORE FROM ALL THE DRIVING SHE'D DONE SO SHE STAYED HOME. WAS GOOD TO VISIT DARLEEN AND SEE HOW WELL SHE IS STILL DOING. AS WE GOT TO SLC ON THE WAY HOME CJ CALLED TO SEE IF WE PLANNED TO STOP SO WE DID AND PENNY HAD BEEN STAMPING AND MAKING CARDS WITH LENELL AND SOME OTHERS SO WE ALL WENT FOR ICE CREAM AT THE FARR'S SHOP IT IS NOTHING LIKE THE FARR'S MOM LOVED SO MUCH IN OGDEN. THE ICE CREAM WAS GOOD AND THE VISIT WITH CJ AND LENELL AND PENNY WAS VERY GOOD. WE GOT HOME LATE THAT NIGHT ALSO.
I MADE IT TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY AND MY HOME TEACHERS CAME THAT EVENING. IT IS ALWAYS GOOD TO HAVE THEM COME BY. HAD AN APPT. TO VISIT TEACH A NEW LADY JUST ADDED TO OUR LIST AND GOT THERE AND SHE WASN'T HOME. I DID FINALLY MAKE CONTACT AND VISITED VIA PHONE FOR ABOUT HALF AN HOUR. WILL SEE HER THIS MONTH. ON THE 31ST WE VISITED KRIS RICHARDS SO THE VISITING TEACHING GOT DONE VIA ONE VISIT 2 PHONE CALLS. THAT TAKES CARE OF THE MONTH OF SEPT.
SO WILL NOT BORE YOU MORE TILL NEXT TIME.
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Sounds like you have been keeping busy! We always love to read what you have been up to. We miss you very much! Nathanial keeps asking us when we are going to see Great Grandma. It breaks our hearts that we have to tell him that we wont see you for a while. I think that someday when we are dont with school we should take a Jensen Family cruise. Keep us updated! WE LOVE YOU AND WE MISS YOU!!
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