Comments Please!

To all of our friends and family who are bored enough to read our blog:

Please leave us comments. We love hearing things from you (most of you). he he he... It is nice to hear from you. We really do miss all of our friends and family. So, if you feel like making a comment or sending an email, please don't hesitate. Excuse my desperation, but coming from all of the friends and family in Tampa, Boise is a lonely place!

Hi Jason and Amy

Jason, I know you read this so you better start leaving comments! It was really good to talk to you two during the holidays.

Christmas Day

Willy and I had a very nice Christmas, although it was a bit quite. We woke up at 8am and warmed up some cinnamon rolls and opened our presents. Leigh and John got us some Omaha steaks. Whoo Hooo! It is nice to have a freezer full of good stuff. You know how hungry I am!

Mom got Willy a cool clock that you can only tell what the time is if you know the binary system. She also gave me some really nice ornaments that I will hang in my room with book quotes on them. They are called Bohemian Ladies and are really awesome.

Speaking of books, Willy got me some French novels that I can read and translate to keep up on my French. He also got me 10 volumes of world literature starting with Egypt's The Book of the Dead and ending with literature from the 20th century. It is so cool because it is divided up by countries. To say the least, I need more bookshelves! Oh yeah, Willy bought be the boots that I have been eying for a while (picture is below). I wore them and they make such a difference in the snow. I love them! I also love Willy, too! :)

After our nap, we ate some food and took Ally near Bogus Basin so Willy could go sledding. I took some video that he better put in this blog. If you don't see it, nag him!


Now, we are trying to warm ourselves up and we will see what we do next on our Christmas day...

Merry Christmas

We hope that everyone has a very merry Christmas this year. We miss all of our friends and family very much. I just want you all to know that Willy and I are thinking about you up here and we wish you could all be with us enjoying the beautiful blue sky with a little snow around. I hope that you all have very happy holidays!

Tonight we are going to go to a Christmas Eve service to get into the Christmas spirit. I miss you Mom! Hopefully tomorrow after we do our Christmas thing, Willy, Ally and I will go sledding. Sounds fun!

Sun Valley, Idaho

So... Once we left Jackson Hole Wyoming we traveled across Idaho to Sun Valley. Past or present home of the rich, famous, and powerful, including Ernest Hemingway, Demi Moore, Bruce Willis, Ashton Kutcher, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Sun Valley is a very affluent area but in the off-season even us normal folk can afford to stay a few days.


Along the way we passed two points of interest. The worlds first nuclear power plant,

Experimental Breeder Reactor I

It was closed so we didn't get to check it out but we did drive through Atomic City and by the Idaho National Lab on our way to destination 2:

Craters of the Moon National Monument

Which was also mostly closed, as was Yellowstone and Grand Teton, but we did take a walking path through some of the lava which was cool. We decided to take a family portrait also!

Ally, Marisa, and Willy

It was extremely cold for some Floridians (20s) so we moved on after collecting a couple of unique rocks, not from the park but from nearby, this was frowned upon to take rocks from the park and we are good kids!

Once we arrived at Sun Valley we actually stayed in the town of Ketchum which is right next to Sun Valley and closer to Bald Mountain (as seen above in the picture).

More to come....

Jackson, Wyoming

Willy finally decided that he wanted to try out his new snowboard at Jackson Hole. We arrived last night and we are staying at a place where they have little log cabins instead of hotel rooms. It is pretty nice and relaxing here. The night we arrived, Willy and Ally went crazy in the snow.

Today, while Willy is snowboarding at the local ski resort for a half day, I am relaxing in the cabin with Ally. Soon, I will go out and take a walk with her and get some exploring of my own done. Later, we are going to buy a pair of boots for me (I can't find the ones that I love anywhere).


Tomorrow we plan to go to Targhee so Willy can snowboard some more while I maybe snowshoe with Ally. We are finally getting into the vacationing mood. It was slightly sketchy driving in the pitch black dark with icy and snowy Yellowstone roads!

White Dog was tagging along as usual: