Yummy Alligator!

On our trip we went to some of my favorite restaurants that they do not have out here in Utah.  We got to eat at Cheddars, Friendly's, and Rita's.  Since we were in Florida the one thing that we really wanted to try was Alligator!  Skipper's was the one of the coolest places to eat.  We had alligator ribs, hush puppies, calamari, fried shrimp, and french fries.

The outside of the building...

Everyone hanging out and eating...

The Cruise

So I am mad at my self that I did not take many pictures.  I have none of our cabin, the food, or the shows. I really am bad at taking pictures.  However, we had a wonderful time together and managed to get burnt 3 times on our vacation.

On our way to the port!

We went on Norwegian Sky.  After looking at some of the other boats, we realized that we got jipped. But it was still so fun to be on a cruise. Here is me standing next to the boat. 

So on our cruise we stopped at 3 different islands.  The first Island that we stopped at we didn't really do anything. It cost A LOT just to leave the port area and you couldn't walk anywhere.  Plus I was sick and not really in the mood to walk in the heat.  So we hung out on the ship for the day.  The second place was a lot of fun.  I was feeling a little bit better  and we were able to walk to almost every where and the cab prices weren't as ridiculous as the first place.  

The third Island was the cruiseline's private island.  It was just a day on the beach.  So we took naps, went into the ocean, got extremely burnt, and had a barbecue.

Then of course we decided to watch the sun set on the ship as we are selling off.  

   

And of course Landon has to take a picture of some of the odd things he sees.  

Coral Castle

Landon and I both have a Things to do While Living List, one of Landon's is to go to Coral Castle.  It is in Homestead, Florida about 30 minutes away from Miami.  So this was one of our major stops in Florida.

We headed out from Miami to Homestead before we caught our cruise.  This castle is made out of all coral built by one man.  

ONE YEAR!!

For our One Year Anniversary, I decided that we were going on a cruise and being the loving husband that Landon is, he took me on one.  We booked a 4 night cruise to the Bahamas porting out of Miami, Florida.  So we decided that we would leave a little earlier and stay a little longer so that we could go and hang out with Stephen, Becky, Katie, and Annie!

It was so much fun and thanks so much for letting us come and stay! (as usual, I did not take that many pictures)

Hanging out with Katie...

Farewell Jackie!!

I didn't take that many pictures, but it was so much fun to have a roommate reunion.  Jackie came out to visit everyone before she headed out to serve her mission in Florida!! Christine, Jason, and Lisa all came and stayed the whole weekend! We went bowling, made lots of yummy food, Frisbee, and just hung out like old times!!

She is going to be such a great missionary and can't wait for Disneyland 2013!!!

Our Own Triathlon

So we both have been really busy, having 2 jobs each so on a free Saturday for a long time we decided to enjoy the beautiful weather and our new birthday presents. (this was back in June)

Part 1 - We started the day off on a Mountain bike ride.  I am not that great at it, but it was sure fun and a lot of hard work.

Part 2 - We got our gear and went rock climbing!

Part 3 - We finished it off with a nice hike to the waterfall.

It was a lot of fun and some good exercise!

The Best Decision of My Life

I love my husband, Wynn Landon Costley, so much!  He is so wonderful.  I was looking across my pictures and came across this one...

Although that trip was not my most favorite at first, it was definitely the most memorable.  

Landon proposed on top of King's Peak the tallest mountain in Utah.  

I am so happy that he asked me and still happily in love with him and can't wait to grow old with him! 

Time Flies!

Well, I have not been the best of bloggers.  A lot has happened since we have been back from China in December.  I do not take many pictures and when I do I don't really do anything with them.  Soo a little bit of update...

Landon and I have been married for 10 months now and now live in Utah.  Both working a lot.  In the past 6 months we went to...

Arizona before Christmas

Louisiana for Christmas 

Las Vegas Trip in April

Cabin for Memorial Weekend

We have also moved 3 times! Thanks to everyone's blog that I stole pictures off of.

Beijing

Day 6

We went out with Landon’s host mother, Chandar, and a few of her friends for Hot Pot and a night on the town.  I tried lots of interesting things that night including esophagus and clotted blood, neither that I need to eat again.  They have too different flavors: mine the non- spicy and then the extremely spicy on fire kind that everyone else had. 

 Someone else got a hold of the camera, Lisa

Avery ugly van  that Lisa wanted Landon to get a picture with.

Day 7

We went to church and had dinner at the Lewis’s.  We then ended up staying there for the next few days while Landon got all of his work done and we packed up to head back home. 

Beijing

Day 5

The GREAT Wall of China!  And the Ming Tombs

So one of my life goals is to stand on the Great Wall of China, I did it! I completed it on December 10, 2010.  It was freezing and very windy and to my amazement it wasn’t as tall or huge as I had thought it would be. However, in Chinese it is actually called the Long wall of china.   It took as a few tries to find a bus that would not lie to us and give a reasonable price.  They were telling us that it if we wanted to get there in an hour it would cost us 120 RMB a person, but if we wanted to take the slow one it would take 3 hours and be 12 RMB.  It was very frustrating at how much they were trying to rip us off, but we finally hoped on a bus that cost us 12 RMB for each of us and only took us an hour to get there. 

Along the way…

My first few glances of the wall

So we were getting closer to the wall and there was a stop that Landon thought we wanted to get off of.  Turns out it was a stop too early that had a very pricey animal park and a rundown, not-open museum and another mile and a half walk till we got to the Great Wall. 

Picture of the animal park…

We made it!! 

Look how steep it is… and yes the Chinese always wear heels for hikes!! I will never understand.

The 13 Ming Tombs

After my excursion to the Great Wall we planned on going to the Ming Tombs, but would have to get off at a stop and find another bus at a different stop to take us.  I was freezing and was not in the best of moods and starving; we had to walk a little ways and stopped at the first restaurant.  At the restaurant we just happened to see the bus that we wanted to catch.  We hoped on and to the Ming Tombs we went. 

The sketch map of the 13 tombs. 

We decided to go to the Dingling Tomb.

Our hike to the underground Palace

I'm guessing that the sign didn't work

Underground

(The picture turned out blurry, but it was the only one of the tombs)

We tried to do some jumping pictures… and about the 10^th try for me to take the picture I got one!

Lastly a really cool tree that Landon had to take a picture of