Sunday, July 14, 2013

AMY AND JARED HAVE ARRIVED!!!!!




Our daughter, Amy, and her husband, Jared, came to visit for one week!  Here we are getting ready to go deep sea fishing on our P-day!!












Jared reeling in his tuna!!  They are harder to reel in than you think!!  They are pretty heavy and they put up a fight!













Amy reeling in her catch of the day!












Jared and Reed getting their tunas!!















Jared with his catch of the day!!  It was fantastic eating!!
We also saw a whale, a dolphin, flying fish and many sea turtles!  It was a wonderful day!!











President Jackson gave us permission to travel to Marrekech, Morocco with our daughter and son in-law for basically 1 1/2 days.  The flight is not very long and you fly on a prop plane.  Here we are in the Medina (the old city dating back to the 12th century) in the main plaza with snake charmers!  Yes, that is a live cobra that he is "charming"!  I was scared to death!!  It was cool to see, but I am so afraid of snakes!!







These are the "water" guys!  They have brass cups and water for you to drink.  Don't worry, we didn't drink any of the water but just took pictures with them.  I guess this is the traditional water wear for any of you that are wanting to keep up with the traditional Morrocan fashion!  Love those hats!







Amy and Jared looking "vogue" in their water hats!












Typical architecture in the Medina.  It is very beautiful!  Check out the birds on top of the building.  They are storks with their nests!!












A better picture of the storks on top of this building with their nests.  Who knew that Marrekech had so many storks?











Amy and Jared are in a traditional Moroccan pharmacy.  Basically it has many spices that Morocco is famous for.  They not only have spices to cook with but have a spice to cure any ailment/illness that you have.  Very interesting!!









Another picture of the pharmacy with it's walls lined with spices!!  Check out the beautiful tile on the walls!











We also visited the traditional tanneries where they use the hides of goats, sheep and cows to make purses, briefcases, etc.  They put the hides in these pools and stomp on them.  The smell of this place was horrendous!!  They gave us fresh mint leaves to smell the whole time that we were touring to try and help with the horrible smell!







These are goat hides drying.  Lovely?!!












Morroco is famous for their beautiful rugs! Mainly the women weave the rugs.  Here is a woman weaving a rug.  They have certain symbols that they weave in to show where they are from.












At our hotel getting ready to fly home from our quick trip!!  I never thought that I could do a quick trip to Morroco!!  I still can't believe that we live so close to Africa!!  Love Gran Canaria!!










We went sailing the last day that Amy and Jared were here.  It turns out that Amy and Jared are really good sailors!!  Here Jared is being taught the fine art of skippering from Domigo, a gold medalist sailor!!










Amy sailing through the rough seas!!  We didn't know that good sailors runs in the family!  Domingo is a great teacher!!
















Reed enjoying the ride!  He loves to sail!!!
We had to say to goodbye to Amy and Jared later that day. We had so much fun with them!!!   It was sad to say goodbye!!












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