Carroll College Visit

Kirt and Tanner went over to Helena Montana to do a basketball visit to Carroll College.  

Cuba Day 14 (home at last)

We got up really early and flew from Minneapolis to Seattle. In Seattle, they had 2 flights to Spokane right away and then 3 much later in the day.  Tanner needed to get home and go to school, so he and I took the 1st flight, and Kirt, Katie, and Garret waited for the 2nd flight.  They got to hang out in the Delta Crown room.  Everyone was so tired by the time we got home and so grateful to be home!

View of Seattle from the airplane

 Kirt's work station in the Delta Crown room in Seattle

 Kids hanging out in the Delta Crown room. They were not excited to stay in the airport all day. Everyone just wanted to be home.

Cuba Day 13 (Minneapolis)

Since we were stuck in Minneapolis for a day, we decided to make the most of it and go to the amusement park at the Mall of America. It was probably the funnest day of our trip.  We all loved the rides.  Garret only threw up 2 times from motion sickness, but that didn't stop him.  He just kept on riding.  

 Teenage Mutant Turtle Ride

 Backyardigans Swings

 Sponge Bob roller coaster

 They had a really cool Lego store with life sized Lego structures.

Cuba Day 12

We are going home today. We are all really excited.  Cuba has not been our favorite trip.  Everything here is just harder than it should be.  Everything is completely inefficient.  When we got to the airport our plane was delayed and we were super worried that we were not going to make it out of the country.  There was a huge storm in Atlanta where our plane was coming from (and where we were flying to). We were running out of cash.  Americans can't use credit cards in Cuba and there are no ATM's to get cash from.  We thought we had taken a ton of money but everything was more expensive than we thought it would be. Thankfully the plane made it to Cuba.  We got to Atlanta, but had missed our connecting flight to Salt Lake.  Atlanta had had bad weather for several days, so they weren't able to get us on a flight to Salt Lake for several days.  They were able to get us to Minneapolis.  They said if we got there, we would have an easier time getting home.  When we got there late Sunday night, we were not able to get a flight out until Tuesday morning.  So we spend a day in Minneapolis. 

Waiting for our taxi to take us to the airport

 Views as we were driving to the airport

 This was the menu of all the food that you could buy at the airport.

 Cool elephant made out of spoons that I saw at the airport.  I really wanted to buy it but it was so expensive.

Cuba Day 11

Today we played at the pool in the morning and the beach in the afternoon.

 All the toys locked up

 There was a guy out kite surfing.  It was awesome to watch.