Home again

I love my home. Jamaica was beautiful, but I love being home. I missed Erica. Had a wonderful time. Relaxed. Saw an 8-10 foot Nurse Shark while diving, along with a Sea Grape, a Sandray, and tons and tons of coral (particularly big vaselike purple hard spongie coral, and fish. We saw "the arches" and did a lot of "cavern" dives underneath huge rocks and overhangs. I also got mom to go snorkling and we saw some nifty spiney black things, some more Sandrays, squid (we think), some pointy nosed fish, lots of tropical fish and coral.

Scuba, the beach and spending time with mom was the highlight
Mosquito bites on my eyelid (that swelled my eye nearly shut for a day), getting approached constantly to buy stuff or by men wanting to marry american girls, and "Savior Complexed,' boastful and intrusive aides were the lowlight.

Christmas & New Years Thanks & Wishes

Wanted to say an official thank you (cause I suck at letters) to warsop for the birthday/christmas gift. I just got the book today, and the CDs came right before I left. I love Vienna Teng and Rachel Sage is pretty neat. I think Erica will really like the other CD (forgetting the name totally atm). Also wanted to thank enigma1434 for both the christmas gift and coming over to spend new years with us.  enid37, Mike, Kate & Rachel all led to one of the best new years I think I've ever had. Casey and Lindsay also played games and that was awesome.  misslydia and Ben, thanks for the card!  We have our hutch covered in more cards than I think I've ever received! xisted and gvmage thanks for coming over for our "friends christmas" and supplying the cookies and lovely decorations which were a highlight at our family christmas.  femmecandle and hardfemmediva thanks for being you! While we missed you over the holidays, you both were in our thoughts!
marandamay I hope to see you more this year!

Nikki

Nikki, my mom's dog has bone cancer.