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I cannot describe how excited the kids are to go to school. One of them is a little bit nervous about it… I'll let you guess who that is. The school has called us three times today. They don't seem to be very efficient in their phone calls. There are…

We had a practice run with school today. We did really well. We were up at 6 and at the jetty to take the boat to the main island by 7:10am. There were several boats waiting to take all the people to the capital. Our boat ride took 20 minutes…

My computer told me that it was time to do some spring cleaning. I reformatted my computer a couple of days ago and I am still trying to get all my software, drivers, etc all back in working order. My email kept shutting down and I was afraid I was…

We went to a new restaurant tonight while we were on the island capital… The name is Food Club Texas. Strange. It is fried chicken fast food. Certainly the first of it's kind on the islands. We loved it. The food tasted like fried chicken you might buy in the…

One of our friends invited us to her house last night for dinner. She made tuna fried noodles. The tuna was dried tuna and added a really nice flavor. She made sure that Kyndal did not have any chilies in hers.nKyndal commented on the fish in our host's aquarium and…

The islands are not known for their poofreading skills. It's always fun to look over a cafe menu to see what we can find. Often times sandwich is two words – sand witch, cheese is spelled chesses and seafood is often spelled see food. It gives us something to do…

We said a few more goodbyes today. These were not near as brutal although I nearly cried when I hugged my dad. Actually I was crying on the inside. nWe stopped in Comanche and saw Anna and then my dad drove us on to the DFW airport. We called our…

We drove to Brownwood yesterday after the kids opened their presents on Christmas morning. It seemed a little bit strange. As a child, after Christmas morning, we would drive with my family from San Angelo to meet my grandparents for Christmas lunch. Both of my grandparents are no longer living.…