Provo 4th of July Parade...

We made it to the 4th of July parade after getting some breakfast at Carl's Jr., after the balloon festival. Cole slept through half of it and then played games on Justin's phone for the other half. Gracie and Jace loved the first half but then they were bored. I enjoyed it all though! It was good seeing my old Trig/Geometry/Driver's Ed teacher Mr. Ockey and seeing Noelle Pikus-Pace and Jimmer! Gracie loved seeing all of the princesses and Jace loved seeing the crazy balloon people.

Balloon Festival...

  We finally made it to the balloon festival in Provo this year, bright and early at 6am. Stephanie and her kids came too and Dallin and Claire. All of the kids loved it, and so did us adults!

 

Day 7...

 Today we were up early to enjoy our last breakfast and even say goodbye to our omelet man. We had to be at the Punta Cana airport 3 hours early, so we left at 9:30am their time. We made it to JFK but then we got delayed on the plane 3 hours because of the storm. We finally made it back to Utah around 3AM. What a long day of traveling. I accidentally left my suitcase on the conveyer belt for 1 minute, so it got flagged, searched through and sent back through the conveyer belt. Only me! What a fun trip. I am already missing it but glad to be back home with my hubby and kids. Can't wait until next year though!

Day 6...

 Today we headed out for our last excursion the Side by Side/Catamaran Combo. I rode the Side by Side with Jamie, she got a little crazy driving me into the brush and hitting every pot hole, it was a lot of fun though. Then we took a little hike to a fresh water lagoon where we went swimming and jumped from a platform...so refreshing. Then we headed out on a nice catamaran ride to a different beach were we had a fabulous lunch on the beach. Back on the catamaran and then we stopped at a place in the ocean with a sandy floor that we swam in. Manny really wanted to be Stephanie's baby daddy. The bus ride back got a little heated between two groups of people. One of which started smoking on the bus and the black people freaked out. The bus driver even had to stop. Lots of yelling and cursing going on...wow... I got buried in the sand like a mermaid. We had dinner at the Italian place again, yummy caprese salad, mozzarella sticks and bubble gum ice cream! Did a little mechanical bull riding and then went to the Michael Jackson show which was fabulous!