Best Bump Ever

Two days later than scheduled, we will be back in the States. We volunteered to get bumped off our flight in order to enjoy a little bit more of the island ammenities! More pics to come.

The downside of it all is that we had to say goodbye to our dear family. We look forward to the next time we get to be with them again.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Grand Cayman Island!!!

Here's Phil and I just behind our villa. We have spent Christmas and New Years on Grand Cayman Island with the Peterson portion of our family. Phil's mom, brother, sister, and borther-in-law are all here. We've filled our days with all the Cayman sights, Cayman cuisine, snorkeling, scuba diving, laying out on the various beaches, playing games, laughing, talking and relaxing at our villa. We must leave the sun, sand and ocean tomorrow, but we're leaving more relaxed, more tan/sun burnt, and richer with family memories. But for the record, I could spend 10 more days (months) here. :)

More pics to come.

Carribean Christmas

For Christmas, Phil is taking me back to my people...Island people, that is. :) We couldn't be more excited. Here we are with our boarding passes waiting for our plane to Atlanta, and then on to the Caribbean!!!! I don't know why our boarding passes are backwards, but hopefully they'll still let us on to our plane.

A Durias Christmas

Papa got a glass boot for his Coca Cola. We call him Cinderello.


Uncle Phil with the camera and Little Joshua with his chubby cheeks.


Auntie Ligaya: "Paige, your eyes weren't open in the picture. Make sure you keep your eyes open this time."

Our Happy Hour

On our first night of Christmas vacation we celebrated the 28th birthday of my friend Donny Vanker (far left). Afterwards we all looked out over the Seattle skyline from Ligaya's office. As good a view as the Space Needle, but for a fraction of the price....$0.

A Starbucks Pre-Christmas

Phil + Ligaya + Starbucks + Christmas presents before Christmas = memorable.

Pre-Christmas with the Vankers

Kristi Vanker (left) and her husband Donny (picture coming) moved out to Seattle this year from Detroit. Donny is a good friend of mine from college and he accepted the job as the Youth Director for Crossroad Bible this fall. Kristi wanted Ligaya to have some "Santa Baby" mugs. Yes, mugs in honor of the Christmas song. Amazing.



Meet Rustin Vanker. One word: cute!

Our Heroes!

Ligaya baked cookies for the construction workers who gave us power last Saturday. They were still working on Sunday morning when I took this pic. The above telephone pole is the source of our electicity, which was snapped like a tooth pick in the windstorm.

ELECTRICITY AGAIN!

As of 7:11PM on Saturday evening we have enjoyed our electricity again like never before.

2 of 533,000 in Seattle Still Without Power

Ligaya and I awoke to no power in our neighborhood on Friday morning. We stayed at our friends house last night because it actually got below freezing in Seattle! On Saturday afternoon the crew was repairing our downed power lines and we hope for heat and light sometime tonight. Click here for more information