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24 Weeks and 1 Day (Monday)

Columbia Part Two: Punta Faro

Ok, sorry I know this has taken forever to post...

Welcome to Punta Faro. We headed to this island 2 hours off the coast of Columbia on Tuesday afternoon via a 20 passenger speed boat. It was a nice day and fun being out on the water. I loved the boat ride, but was questioned by just about everyone on the trip if I was ok after the ride. Being prego and all you get that question alot.

My sweetheart and I in the boat waiting to head out to the island.


This was the little dock right outside of our room. We were just steps from the water.

The building we were in was the guest house and it had three separate rooms in it and then a common patio area with couches and hammocks.

Not a great shot, but there was not much to it. This is the door to our room and you can our bed inside. The bathrooms have a sink, toilet and shower in them but they are pretty primitive. The toilets worked some of the time and there was no hot water in the plumbing. You can picture the water coming out of the shower head like a hose on half power. It wasn't cold water, but definitely not warm. Being in the sun and salt water all day, any shower was welcomed.

Our guest house was located across a coconut field from the main area of the resort. It was beautiful, but I did worry about falling coconuts. I never saw one fall.

This little or not so little guy was hanging out in the coconut field.

This is the beach area where we spent most of our time. It was so beautiful and warm. We played in the water a bunch, went out snorkeling and Mike even got to go scuba diving.

For snorkeling they took us to a reef area about 10 minutes from the island. It was a little overcast that morning so the water was a little darker, but you could still see lots of fish. It was fun except for in those moments when you realize that you are in the middle of the ocean and something could eat you!
While there one of the guides swam over holding something. IT WAS A SHARK! He had caught a 3 foot shark and was swimming over to show us. I looked at it from a distance. Yikes!

The three of us posing for a picture. I am 21 weeks pregnant in these pictures.

Sitting in a beach chair relaxing.

More beach picture



It may be hard to tell unless you make this picture bigger, but this is Mike with live starfish for a bra singing a song from The Little Mermaid. It was hilarious, everyone was laughing so hard. Especially because he sang like 8 or 10 lines of the song.

This is the only picture I could find of me in my suit. It's a good side shot so you can see my baby belly.

This is the view from where we had breakfast each morning. We had lunch in another location each day and then dinner was moved each night to a different location.

All we can say is what an amazing experience it was and how grateful we are that we had the chance to experience it.

The crazy story of getting home will be in the next post.

Columbia Part One: Cartagena

I just want to start off by saying this trip was amazing!!! A once in a lifetime experience for sure. We both had the time of our life. Our trip started off with a slight detour which turned out to be really fun. Our flight (the 16 of us) from SLC to LAX was delayed, then it took 45 minutes to get to the gate once we landed, then it took 50 minutes for our luggage to come. (We had to get our luggage because we where switching airlines.) With all these delays we ended up missing our flight by 20 minutes.

By this time it was midnight pacific time. We spent the next three hours waking up the travel agency folks who were already in Columbia, finding a hotel, and walking three terminals over to find that the only food at LAX at 2am is McDonalds. 16 Bottles of water, 17 cheeseburgers, 3 cokes, 1 coffee and 1 salad later we were all held over until we could get a shuttle to the hotel.

The next morning we found out that we wouldn't be flying out until that night. Since we had a long wait, it was arranged for us to go to the Staples Center and see a hockey game and then out for a nice dinner. Then we went back to the airport and headed out for Fort Lauderdale, FL. We reached Florida at 7:30 am East Coast time. At this point we had to divide into two groups to get us to Columbia. Five of us were bussed to the Miami Airport to wait for a flight directly to Cartagena. The other 11 stayed in Fort Lauderdale and flew to Bogota then to Cartagena.

Finally after two days of travel we all arrived and started the next part of our journey in Cartagena and the Hotel Santa Clara Sofitel.
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The Sofitel was a beautiful luxury resort. "Originally built as a monastery in 1621, the Sofitel Santa Clara Hotel is a reference point in the heart of Cartagena de Indias, where its walls, which acted as a shield in ancient times, combine with colonial balconies and republican structures to evokethe splendor of days gone by."

There were toucans around the hotel. This is one helping himself to some breakfast in the courtyard. Breakfast at the hotel was pastries, fresh fruit and wonderful breads.

Our second night in Cartagena, after dinner, we took a carriage ride through the city.

We took a bus tour the morning after arriving. This is the courtyard inside the monastery on the highest point in Cartagena.

This is a Fort we visited on our bus tour. It has tunnels running throughout it. We walked down into one tunnel that is about two stories deep. It got pretty tight the further down we went.

In the walled city where we were staying there are squares like this every few blocks. Most restaurants have the majority of their seating outside in a square like this.

This is a square where we had dinner on the second night. The food was amazing, sushi, shrimp, beef tenderloin and coconut pie. All the food we had in Columbia was delicious.

This is a typical street in the walled city. Cartagena was very clean every where we went, even outside of the walled city.

These next pictures are a few of the beautiful doorways that where every where in the city.





After a few days in Cartagena our vacation continued a two hour boat ride away on a island in the Caribbean at a resort called Punta Faro. This will be my next post.

Columbia Trip

I am trying out this blogger app. Just a quick update here in Columbia. We are having great time here in Cartagena and at the Sofitel our hotel. I will try and upload some pictures when we get home. Tomorrow we will head to Punta Faro, a private island 2 hours off the coast of Columbia. So Excited!

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It's a girl

We had our ultrasound yesterday and found out that our new addition is a girl. I guess we will be thinking pink for another few years. I have been putting off painting Sophie's room for about the last year because I knew we planned to have a second. I didn't want to put all this time and money into it just to repaint. Since we know we are have another girl, I am making plans for pink!

You can see that she's giving a thumbs up right by her face.


Face shot, a little freaky, but cool too.


One of her feet. We counted all the toes on both feet.


Good shot of her leg stretched out.


And there it is, the bum shot with little girl part.

The ultrasound tech said that she looked textbook perfect. Great heart rate and was measuring exactly how she should be. She also said that she was an incredible cooperative and easy baby. I hope that will be true when she comes out!

She is positioned the same way as Sophie was, head down, back on my left side, feet and hands on my right.

We took Sophie to the appointment with us, but she fell asleep in the car and stayed asleep the whole appointment in Mike's arms. She woke up when we left and was upset that she didn't get to go to mommy's doctor. I showed her the ultrasound pictures and pointed out eyes, nose, foot, etc. She like the pictures so much, I made her a copy of them.

Probably trying to figure out what she is looking at


"Yes, it's a sister!"


"Look mom, I can stretch my arms."
She lost interest in the pictures for a moment.

More Preggie Pictures

19 Weeks and 2 days

I put on some pants this week that didn't fit

Little belly starting to show

This is because I am not really smiling in the rest of my pictures.

Smarty Pants

I say to Sophie this morning that I need to get dressed,
then I walk into her closet to put something away.
Sophie runs into the closet and says
"mom these clothes not fit for you!"

She makes me laugh everyday!

Belly Shots 18 Weeks

Not too much to look at
but at least there is some
belly showing

I have gained about 10 lbs

(it is awkward posing for these pictures)

Below is a picture of me about
16 weeks pregnant with Sophie
looks about the same to me

Pregnancy To Date

(She loves her computer she got for Christmas)

Pregnancy Update:

Just so I will remember, weeks 6-7 were a little rough and I was fairly sick to my stomach, but was not puking, which was good, I guess.

Between 7-10 weeks I had lost my appetite and my ability to taste. It was had to eat or even think of something to eat. I would try and imagine my favorite food and it wouldn't work.

We had an ultrasound about week 12.5 and saw that our little one was doing well.

Through about week 14 I had been really tired. I was coming home every night and just laying on the couch or the bed.

I am 16 weeks pregnant. I have gained about 6 lb and am showing a tiny bit, but if you didn't know, you wouldn't know.

Pictures of the "baby-belly" to follow.

It's A...

...Baby! Yes, Just one.


(Head top left and bum to the right)

All hands, toes, feet, fingers and
other important parts accounted for.

The baby's heart looks great
and you could see that he/she
had the hiccups.

This was just a quick look and see.
Our main ultrasound will be in about 8 weeks.