Here we are with Ronnie the Amazing Parrot. I've finally figured out how to put pictures on here, so hopefully I will keep adding.

There isn't much more to say about the trip, we went on three tours and the rest of the time we stayed at the hotel. I was disappointed with their gym facility. I am training for a 10K race and needed to keep up my program and we got there and the gym was really nice, except it had NO TREADMILL! So Todd and I had the kids go to the Kids Club a few times while we took out bikes for a good workout.

Oh, one thing that we saw that I wish we didn't was a monkey that was carrying her baby get hit by a car RIGHT IN FRONT OF US!!! It was horrible. We were getting ready to go into a restaurant and I called the kids over to see this monkey and baby that was right next to us. As soon as they came over to look, she decided to run across the street, and get hit by a car! It was very traumatizing. The good thing was that she did run off after, so we are hoping that she didn't get too hurt! But that bothered me so much afterwards. I couldn't get the image or the sound out of my head. I think the kids didn't really realize what happened because as soon as I saw I moved them real quick so I don't think they really knew what happened.

I still have to say though that monkeys still freak me out! I don't know what it is about them but they are just scary little creatures. Except for the squirrel monkeys that we saw all the other ones were just freaky! Anyone else feel this way? I remember when Ross had Marcel the Monkey it used to really bother me.

There is still no new news about the adoption so we are just patiently (which if you know me, is not easy for me!) waiting for the package to come with the baby's picture and the ok to pick her up!

Todd just got the call last night from his boss from the States with the news that we are definitely moving to the Dominican Republic. Timberland has been great and is letting us do the timeline. So we will be moving there sometime between June and August, giving us time to settle with the baby before having to move. So everyone pack your beach bags and plan to come visit us in the Caribbean (since no one came to visit us here...except Mom and Dad) We plan on getting a big house so we can have plenty of visitors!

Till next time!

Back from Malaysia

We just got back from our 8 day long trip to Penang Island, Malaysia and I wanted to share it with everyone. I am going to try out blogging and see if I am better at updating this than I was at updating the yahoo group that I originally set up when we moved out here.

We had a great time, but it was not as nice as our previous trips. The hotel that we stayed at was ok, but not as nice was we were expecting. We had wanted to go scuba diving, but the only place that we found that offered it looked a bit scary, so we decided not to go since we were not confident that they a)knew what they were doing or b)the equipment were up to our standards (nothing worse than having a faulty regulator 30 meters down!)

We took a few day trips that the kids really enjoyed. We went to Orang Utan Island where they breed Orang Utans and they let them run wild on the island. It was really neat, they have a 100 meter long cage that the people are in while the Orang Utans have roam of the island. They also have nurseries for the babies, that Jillian really liked. They had cribs set up and there were two babies, diapers and all, in there while we touring. Next we went to Eco Park where we were able to feed and hold many different animals. I had Squirrel Monkeys climb on top of me trying to get the banana that I was holding. Now, normally monkeys really freak me out, but these were so small (third smallest monkeys on earth) and really cute so I was ok with them. We were the only ones in the park that day so we had our own personal guide bringing us around. There was an animal show, which being the only visitors that day, we had a private viewing. When they asked for a volunteer from the audience, Noah got to participate in the activities. Then we were all able to hold Ronnie the Amazing Parrot! We also were able to hold an iguana (which we didn't because it was really big!), guinea pigs, mice (Jillian's absolute favorite), hampsters and rabbits.

Its getting late now so I will try and post more tomorrow (and hopefully figure out how to put pictures in too), be sure to check back!