Category: Photo Log

August 28 – September 1, 2013

The weather chased out of Ensenada el Pescador so we made a brief stop at BLA village and then hunkered down at La Mona.  La Mona is the beach at the very southern end of Bahia de Los Angeles. La Gringa is at the Northern end and BLA Village is in the middle.

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Logbook – August 28, 2013 (Ensenada el Pescador to BLA Village to La Mona)

Passage Log Highlights

• • 1138 Depart el Pescador
  • 1358 Arrive BLA Village
  • 1720 Depart BLA Village
  • 1846 Arrive La Mona

Daily Notes

• • Motorsail to BLA Village – bugs in the flour 😦
  • Anchor in La Mona.  Fish chowder for dinner
  • Chubasco prep – No chubasco

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Logbook – August 29, 2013 (La Mona)

Daily Notes

• • Light rain in the morning
  • Rain all day
  • Boys – PS3 and dinner on LC

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Email to family and friends dated August 29, 2013

Subject: Rain, rain, rain

We moved to La Mona yesterday after a brief stop at BLA village for some provisions. I’ve been making a lot of bread so I needed some more flour, so I bought 2 big bags, and they were both infested with bugs. That’s the first time that’s happened to me so far in Mexico, but I was so disappointed. I still had a little bit of flour so I was still able to make fish chowder last night, but no bread. There was a lot of convection in the area last night so we were on our toes preparing for a Chubasco. We had quite a lightning show over the hill at our anchorage, but no Chubasco. It started raining early this morning and has been light and steady ever since. It smells like Arizona thunderstorms. I guess tropical storm Juliette is roaring up the pacific side of Baja today but she is supposed to head west once she gets to Turtle Bay, so this is about the worst we will see here.
Love and miss you all.
-D.

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Logbook – August 30, 2013 (La Mona)

Daily Notes

• • D – Paddle to scout beach – not a good running beach
  • T/B/Steve/Kyle Spearfishing w/ Craig from True Blue V.  B got a leopard grouper
  • D/A/Carolina/Joel – dominoes, bird ran into the boat
  • Dinner on Exodus
  • D is the queen of shush! No one talks during the Chubasco Net

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Logbook – August 31, 2013 (La Mona)

Daily Notes

• • Potluck on beach w/ True Blue V, Sea Note, Drifter, Entre Nous, LC

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Email to family and friends dated August 31, 2013

Subject: Still at La Mona

We are still at La Mona, and we originally planned to head into BLA village today, since fresh veggies get delivered to the stores on Friday nights, but some other cruisers have organized a pot luck on the beach here tonight, so we are going to stay and head into the village tomorrow. At the last potluck someone made cake that Brenden thought was bread. He told me how good the bread was and that he had 5 pieces, then later when I tasted it I realized it was cake. So Brenden asked me to make something tonight that he knows what it is, so I’m just going to make pasta in red sauce. We taught Carolina and Joel Mexican train yesterday, and they like it, so I think that will be a common activity going forward. I made a trade matrix today for all my options for getting back for Danna’s wedding that includes everything from flying from Loreto to taking a bus to Mexicali or Tijuana. I Will let you guys know when we figure it out. In any case I will be renting a car at some point because I want to spend some time in LA too. Can’t wait.
Love and miss you guys,
-D.

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Aug 26-28, 2013

Since we were expecting calm weather for a couple days we headed back down to Ensenada el Pescador. Carolina and I had walked across to this beach when we were anchored at El Quemado. Although not featured in these photos, Pescador had an awesome sandy beach good for football, Bocce, and, of course, running! Our last morning we got blown out by SE winds and rain and we headed up to La Mona.

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Logbook – August 26, 2013 (Las Rocas to Ensenada el Pescador)

Passage Log Highlights

• • 1005 Depart Las Rocas
  • 1313 Arrive el Pescador

Daily Notes

• • Football, frisbee, bocce ball on the beach at el Pescador (very nice beach)
  • Beef stew & cornbread (no fish)

(Edit:  Apparently it had to be noted in the logbook when we did *not* have fish for dinner)

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Logbook – August 27, 2013 (Ensenada el Pescador)

Daily Notes

• • D – awesome morning run.  Beautiful beach.  Strong breeze to keep cool (made the paddle to the beach tough, though.
  • Awesome treasure hunt for the boys – still have not recovered the last clue
  • T/Steve spearfishing – yellowtail & grouper.  Dinner on Exodus

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Email to family and friends dated August 27, 2013

Subject: Ensenada el Pescador

We moved a bit south yesterday. Since winds were forecast to come out of the NW today and tomorrow we decided to head down to this anchorage that we had skipped past before. It has good W and NW protection but usually the wind is coming out of the SE. Tim and Steve (Lady Carolina) are at the beach putting together a treasure hunt for the boys. The beach here is gorgeous, in fact, it is pretty much the best running beach so far. I had a great run this morning (if you call 3 miles in sand and heat great). We are back to school after taking a week off, and it’s a pretty slow day so far.
-D.

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Logbook – August 28, 2013 (Ensenada el Pescador to BLA Village to La Mona)

Daily Notes

• • 25 knot winds at 4 am

 

August 22-26, 2013

Las Rocas is an anchorage on Isla Coronados (Isla Smith). We had a lot of rain and clouds while we were there due to a tropical storm passing along the outside of the Baja peninsula. In fact, here is where we had to run the engines just to charge the batteries for the very first time. But it was a beautiful anchorage.

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Logbook – August 22, 2013 (La Gringa to Las Rocas)

Passage Log Highlights

• • 1114 Depart La Gringa
  • 1300 Arrive Las Rocas

Daily Notes

• • Brenden slept his sickness off all day
  • Tim, Steve, Kyle spearfishing – sierra, yellowtail, parrot fish cabrilla
  • D/B – Quiet dinner & movie
  • T/A – Dinner on LC

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Logbook – August 23, 2013 (Las Rocas)

Daily Notes

• • T/Steve spearfish 3 yellowtail & 1 sierra.  Yummy sashimi
  • D – paddle over to north bay – met Lungta (Dan & Kathy) and Sara M (Paul) tough paddle back against wind & current
  • Boys scavenger hunt on the beach. Alex & Joel won.
  • Dinner on Exodus w/ Lady Carolina.  Yummy sashimi.

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Email to family and friends dated August 23, 2013

Subject: Las Rocas

We had a great time at the cruisers party at La Gringa, but one of the highlights had to be swimming with a whale shark. Brenden absolutely loved it! And one of the low points had to be Brenden getting food poisoning at the pot luck and spending all night and the better part of the morning leaning off the back swim step. So, Brenden and I had a quiet movie night last night as he recuperated and Tim and Alex went over to Lady Carolina for dinner and poker. We moved just a couple miles yesterday out to an island to a bay called Las Rocas. It’s really nice, but the wind has picked up. This morning we are seeing gusts up to 26 kts. It’s actually nice and cool for a change (only 81 deg, but still 75% humidity). Sunday is supposed to be the real blustery day with winds up in the 30s. We will probably stay put until that blows through.
Love and miss you all,
D.

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Logbook – August 24, 2013 (Las Rocas)

Daily Notes

• • T, Boys – Spearfish – B got a parrot fish.  More yummy yellowtail.

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Logbook – August 25, 2013 (Las Rocas)

Daily Notes

• • Rain in the night.  Very low batt voltage this morning
  • T/D – paddle to the first lagoon. Panga wake knocked D off.  Rain.
  • Downpour in the afternoon.  Boys soaked on paddleboards
  • Had to run engines to charge batteries for the first time.  No sun 😦
  • Cocktails on Mai Tai Roa with Alex & Sue

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Email to family and friends dated August 25, 2013

Subject: Tropical Storm Ivo

Tropical Storm Ivo passed along the pacific coast of Baja. La Paz reported not having any weather fall out, but Puerto Escondido had 30 kt winds and 8 in of rain yesterday. We saw winds in the 20s yesterday, and it rained a bit last night (not anywhere near 8 in) and we are totally socked in with clouds this morning. I actually had to run an engine just to charge the batteries for the first time this morning, because no sun means no power for us. However, I wouldn’t say we have been power neutral with just the arrays. We move anchorages so often that we get engine charging every time we raise and drop anchor and sometimes on passage if there’s no wind. Everything is great here. More yellowtail sashimi last night, and Brenden shot a Parrot Fish that made excellent ceviche.
Love and miss you all,
-D.

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Email to family and friends dated August 26, 2013

Subject: Rain

We still have overcast skies and we had some fits of heavy downpour yesterday. If not for the decreased power generation I would be loving the relief we are getting from the sunshine and heat. I actually took a warm shower last night for the first time in months! We will probably head back to the village today or tomorrow, but I’m not hopeful about the internet. We heard on the radio net last night it’s been down.
-D.

August 19-22, 2013

La Gringa and the Full Moon Floatie Contest party. Need I say more? OK, I will. La Gringa is the beach on the north end of Bahia de Los Angeles. There is an estuary and at the extreme tides around the full moon you can ride the current in and out. Not exactly rapids, but a lot of fun all the same. There was a floatie contest with 3 categories: 1) Best Store-bought Floatie (which went to Gravel on SV True Companion for his beer can floatie throne), 2) Best Floatie made of Noodles (which went to Craig & LeAnn of True Blue V for their Floatie Chairs that could have qualified for any category, but hey they had noodles on them), and 3) Best Floatie made of anything you can find in your bilge or anywhere else on your boat (this prestigious award went to Lady Carolina). Sue (Mai Tai Roa), Trish (Interabang), and I were the contest judges, and the best bribes we got were from Joel of Lady Carolina which included cookies and hugs, but I’m pretty sure they would have won the contest anyway.

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Logbook – August 19, 2013 (BLA Village to La Gringa)

Passage Log Highlights

• • 0940 Depart BLA Village
  • 1119 Arrive La Gringa

Daily Notes

• • Whales on passage
  • Alex rescued the compost bucket
  • D/T paddleboard into the estuary
  • Dorado and “Costa Rica” rice on Exodus
  • Chubasco chance – whales in the bay when we were securing the deck
  • Tide delta is now 10 ft

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Logbook – August 20, 2013 (La Gringa)

Daily Notes

• • Boys rode their surfboards in the current at the opening of the estuary
  • Whale sharks in the bay – B & T swim with them
  • Diagrammed the SeaTalk network
  • Played in the rapids at the estuary

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Email to family and friends dated August 20, 2013

Subject: La Gringa

We left BLA Village yesterday and moved about 6nmi North to Ensenada La Gringa. Tomorrow is the full moon cruisers party here, and we are helping to organize. There’s about a 10 ft tide swing and a small estuary, so we are going to have a floating party around high tide where we first get sucked into the estuary, then pushed back out. There are prizes for best floaties, so you can believe Tim’s already got diagrams drawn up for the plans for the Exodus floatie. Alex had a good idea of using empty 5 gallon water jerry cans. I’m one of the judges, and yes, I will take bribes, especially if anyone has any CA Chardonnay. 🙂
I’m not sure the inReach acquired GPS signal yesterday when we moved, so I’m not sure the map shows us in the right spot, but we are not too far away from the village, just a little ways North.
Yesterday, we had some excitement on passage… I was rinsing the veggie compost container, and I dropped it overboard. We circled back to get it, and when we spotted it, without hesitation, Alex dove into the water off the port bow. He retrieved it, but then missed the back step as we circled around. Then it was like a man overboard drill… Brenden grabbed the pole and we pulled him in. I promise, grandparents, that at no time during this exercise was Alex in any danger. It was good fun, and Alex got to be the hero. Of course, he said next time it’s my turn, but he always says that.
I heard there was lots of lightning up in the bay area last night… we didn’t have much action here, thank goodness.
Love and miss you all,
-D.

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Logbook – August 21, 2013 (La Gringa)

Daily Notes

• • D – long paddleboard, prep for potluck (oreos & beer bread)
  • T – spearfish w/ (sentence abruptly ended… assume he went with Steve)
  • Boys make a raft, whale shark right by our boat
  • Full Moon Party at the estuary and potluck on the beach
  • B – sick (vomiting) in the middle of the night

Edit: At the potluck Brenden came to me and told me how someone brought the best bread ever, it was the greatest bread he’s ever had and he had 4 pieces of it.  I asked, Brenden, do you mean the pineapple cake?

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August 15-19, 2013

We finally made it to BLA and back to civilization.  We only stayed a few days to run errands and provision.

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Logbook – August 15, 2013 (Ensenada el Quemado to BLA Village)

Passage Log Highlights

• • 0911 Depart Ensenada el Quemado
  • 1145 Arrive BLA Village

Daily Notes

• • Troubleshot nav network connectivity issue.  Got it to work – still no root cause
  • Scouted Puerto Don Juan
  • BLA tide range is 7 ft
  • Visited town – very good selection at yellow store except for produce
  • Winds to 20 kt in the afternoon – drinks on LC
  • Fish & chips on Exodus

Edit: Just like in Santa Rosalia, we got to know the stores by their color.

Edit: Puerto Don Juan is the natural hurricane hole nearby.  So, we scouted it and took depth soundings around the edges so if we ever needed to make a speedy entrance we could do it with the advantage of prior intel.

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Logbook – August 16, 2013 (BLA Village)

Daily Notes

• • Trash, laundry, groceries.  Lo-balled the lady on laundry price.  😦
  • Blue-footed booby guest on the port bow
  • Journey around town in search of wifi.  Found propane.  Ride w/ Andres back to (illegible).  Internet cafe at yellow store.
  • Dinner at Costa del Sol.  Carne Asada = shoe leather.  Margarita = water.
  • Sleepover on Exodus.

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Email to family and friends dated August 16, 2013

Subject: BLA Village

We made it to the Bay of LA and we are currently anchored off the village. We walked around yesterday, and contrary to what we have heard, the main store has pretty much all grocery items and the prices aren’t too bad either. We fleetingly had internet from the boat yesterday, but lost the signal and haven’t been able to find it again. There is an internet cafe at the other end of town, and we will likely go there this afternoon.
Yesterday at the store we asked, in our broken Spanish, if there was a laundromat in town, and she said no, but there are women who will do your laundry, and she took us to a house next door and the woman there is going to do our laundry for us. I’m also going to ask if she’ll make fresh tortillas. Can’t hurt to ask (that’s what we did in Agua Verde).
We will likely be here for another couple days, then we will head just a little bit North, still in the Bay of LA, to a spot called La Gringa, for the cruisers’ full moon party on Wed.
We’ve rearranged the boys’ school days, and I can’t believe I didn’t think of this sooner. Now, they do their independent work from the day before first and then we do their lessons after that. That way they can start school whenever they are ready in the morning and don’t have to wait for me. So far so good. We are going to give them next week off because Lady Carolina school books are arriving soon, and then they can all start school together again the following week. It should be a fun week off.
Love and miss you all,
-D.

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Logbook – August 17, 2013 (BLA Village)

Daily Notes

• • Banana bread!
  • Veggies get delivered Fri night so we went to the yellow store today.  OK, but not great
  • D- paddleboard and “run” along the “Malecon”
  • Crazy bird fish feeding frenzy
  • Fish tacos on Exodus.  Another night on the net.
  • Lost a towel & Tim dove & found.

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Logbook – August 18, 2013 (BLA Village)

Daily Notes

• • D/T – frustrating internet excursion to Costa del Sol
  • Boys – kid ice cream excursion
  • Alex/Kyle reprimanded for drifting too far away w/ the current on surfboards
  • Soup dinner on LC
  • Poker game on Exodus.  Alex victorious.

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August 13-15, 2013

One last stop before heading to Bahia de Los Angeles, which would be our home base for the summer.

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Logbook – August 13, 2013 (Bahia de Las Animas to Ensenada el Quemado)

Passage Log Highlights

• • 1228 Depart Bahia de Las Animas
  • 1303 Engines off.  Main & Genoa
  • (no time logged) GPS not working.  Helm display not working.
  • 1450 Arrive Ensenada el Quemado
  • 2246 Lightning coming

Daily Notes

• • LC left the anchorage a few hours ahead of us.  No wind 😦  When we left 20 knots 🙂
  • Passage with GPS not working
  • Boys spearfished when we got to Quemado.  No school.  4 huge fish – leopard grouper & cabrilla
  • Chubasco scare – lots of lightning but it never reached us
  • Tim was up late.  Amazing bioluminescence.  Sea lions and schools of fish.

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Email to family and friends dated August 13, 2013

Subject: Inching North

Hi All,
We are still inching our way North to the Bay of LA. We are now in a rather large bay called Ensenada el Quemado. We had a nice sail, even if too short. Boys are out fishing, and I’m still hoping for another Yellowtail. The humidity is back up to ~70% after being down around 20% the past several days. It’s so stifling I just don’t feel like doing anything. Our navigation instruments have been acting funny with displays each having access to some data but not other and nothing is consistent. In fact, our chartplotter didn’t have GPS on the sail up here so for the first time we didn’t have the nice little boat icon on the chart showing our location. We are so spoiled! I’m sure it’s a network communication issue and I got everything to work now since we dropped anchor, but I have no idea how. I just turned things off/on in no particular order and now it works. When we have wifi again I will need to do some reading about “Seatalk” which is the network protocol our Nav instruments use.
Not really anything exciting going on around here, just wanted to check in.
Love and miss you all,
-D.

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Logbook – August 14, 2013 (Ensenada el Quemado)

Daily Notes

• • Rearranged our school days – independent work first, lessons 2nd, so boys aren’t waiting for me
  • Alex’s ear clear to swim again – lobster time
  • Boys wen spearfishing w/ LC boys
  • Carolina & D walked over to Ensenada el Pescador – hurried back due to storm blowing in.  Never got to us.
  • Met Let It Go, Lagoon 380 -Lauren, Valerie, Benjamin.  Clam pasta dinner on Exodus
  • Found a pearl in one of the clams

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August 11-13, 2013

Bahia de Las Animas is a large bay just to the west of Animas slot.  We didn’t take many photos here and not a whole lot is written in the logbook either.  I guess it was just a pit stop on the way to BLA (almost there!)

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Logbook – August 11, 2013 (Animas Slot to Bahia de Las Animas)

Passage Log Highlights

• • 1020 Depart Animas Slot
  • 1119 All heads dumped
  • 1205 Arriva Bahia Los Animas

Daily Notes

• • Tim & Steve installed light over BBQ
  • D/T paddle to see the whale bones.  Coyote on the beach.  Yellowtail in the water around the point.
  • Made beer bread for the first time yum.  Frozen fish not so yum.

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Logbook – August 12, 2013 (Bahia de Las Animas)

Daily Notes

• • Brenden slept until 1 pm!
  • A/T dinghy fishing w/ Steve & Kyle
  • Dinner @ LC – Fish & pizza.  Wave of humidity
  • Chubasco scare – battened down the hatches.  But no Chubasco!

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Logbook – August 13, 2013 (Bahia de Las Animas to Ensenada El Quemado)

Daily Notes

• • T/A/B – dinghy fishing – nothing but skipjack & bonita 😦
  • Passage to El Quemado

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August 7-11, 2013

This was a fantastic little cove, but unfortunately both boats (Exodus and Lady Carolina) couldn’t fit. So, they anchored just around the corner.

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Logbook – August 7, 2013 (Isla Partida to Animas Slot)

Passage Log Highlights

• • 1505 Depart Isla Partida
  • 1543 Main & genoa, no engines
  • 1904 Arrive Animas slot*

*Took about an hour to complete anchoring.  Tim dove & moved the anchor manually to try to tuck in as close as possible to make room for LC.

Daily Notes

• • Passage to Animas Slot.  Close to sunset, not enough room for 2 boats, LC moved around the corner.  Another lobster dinner, ho hum.
  • Beautiful sunset!

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Logbook – August 8, 2013 (Animas Slot)

Daily Notes

• • Broke 100 deg F today but with only 20% humidity it was absolutely pleasant
  • T/Steve – long hooks @ the east point.  Boys played on the beach
  • D- paddle & walk ashore.  First time on land since Santa Rosalia
  • Dinner on Exodus – martinis and caesars, whale noises in the bay
  • Brine shrimp in the water

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Logbook – August 9, 2013 (Animas Slot)

Daily Notes

• • D/T – snorkel
  • B – 100 test lesson 4 A’s and 1 B
  • Boys – more capture the flag on the beach.  Lots of bees.
  • Dinner on LC
  • Pitbull story night, bottle of La Crema

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Logbook – August 10, 2013 (Animas Slot)

Daily Notes

• • T & A – ear infections
  • D – hike to the top of the ridge between the bays.  Beautiful views.
  • Bees, bees, bees
  • Made bread fo the first time.  Spaghetti dinner on Exodus w/ LC
  • Afternoon paddle – awesome turtle sighting dead ahead 5 feet

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August 4-7, 2013

In Mexico, there are usually several places with the same name. We had already visited an Isla Partida down near La Paz, and here we are at another Isla Partida between Santa Rosalia and BLA. So, I will call this one Isla Partida (North).  Immediately fter Alex’s birthday celebration at Isla Salsipuedes we raised anchor just in advance of the wind shift in order to make it to Isla Partida before dark.

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Logbook – August 4, 2013 (Isla Salsipuedes to Isla Partida)

Passage Log Highlights

• • 1617 Depart Isla Salsipuedes
  • 1700 Spinnaker run
  • 1926 Arrive Isla Partida

Daily Notes

• • Happy Birthday Alex!!
  • Passage to Isla Partida – very peaceful sail, boys played chess
  • Bat flew into my head while getting out of the shower, bird flew into the cabin while I was getting dressed

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Logbook – August 5, 2013 (Isla Partida)

Daily Notes

• • Mini-chubasco last night ~ 2am.  Lightning/thunder.  18-22 kt winds with gusts to 30 kt.  All directions.
  • 8am rain – gave Exodus a wipedown
  • Baby bird on the boat – seagull got him 😦
  • Huge effort trying to rid the boat of no-see-ums
  • T/Steve/Kyle – dinghy fishing – yellowtail sushi for dinner on LC

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Logbook – August 6, 2013 (Isla Partida)

Daily Notes

• • D – paddleboard – so many jellies in the water, including chains of babies
  • T/Steve – Dinghy fishing – HUGE Dorado – Assembly of fish

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Logbook – August 7, 2013 (Isla Partida to Animas Slot)

Daily Notes

• • Family snorkel around the north point.  TONS of little jellies.  😦
  • Mom threw a temper tantrum over the veggies getting tossed overboard

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Email to family and friends dated Augst 7, 2017

Subject: HUGE Dorado

Hi Everyone,
We are currently up at Isla Partida and the anchorage would be absolutely perfect except for the jellyfish and the complete lack of a sand beach to run on. Although, the stand-up paddleboard is feeding at least part of my need to run. The nice thing about this bay is the protection. We actually had a mini Chubasco the other night with wind gusts up to 30 kt and lightning all around. We were up at 2am securing this and tying down that preparing for the winds to pick up even more. We’ve had 2 very calm nights since them, and Tim and Steve (Lady Carolina) caught a 34 lb Dorado (Mahi Mahi) yesterday so we enjoyed fish 2 ways last night (chowder & sashimi) for 8 people and barely made a dent in the supply.  The day before they caught a smallish yellowtail so we also enjoyed sashimi that night. Everyone is entertained by how Brenden will just mow down a plate of raw fish. We all liked the yellowtail more than the dorado as sashimi, but the dorado is excellent for grilling and for fish tacos. Today there will be no fishing since neither of us can really fit anymore in the fridge so we are going to have an easy school day and go for a family snorkel instead. Although the water isn’t that cold, we will all be wearing our full wetsuits because of the jellies!
Happy Birthday to my baby sister Danna!
Love and miss you all!
-D.

August 3-4, 2013

This was a diversion anchorage.  We were headed for Isla Partida but the wind died and this was our backup plan.  It was a great little anchorage, except for the no-see-ums!  The highlight was Alex’s 12th birthday!

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Logbook – August 3, 2013 (San Francisquito to Isla Salsipuedes)

Passage log highlights

• • 1100 Departed
  • 1149 Gennaker and main
  • 1236 Hammerhead sighting
  • 1630 Arrived Isla Salsipuedes

Daily Notes

• • Passage – originally headed for Isla Partida but wind did not cooperate so anchored at Isla Salsipuedes
  • Swimming and snorkeling
  • Fish cookout w/ LC on Exodus
  • ISS flyby (International Space Station)

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Logbook – August 4, 2013 (Isla Salsipuedes to Isla Partida)

Daily Notes

• • Happy Birthday Alex!!!
  • T, Alex, Steve, Kyle spearfishing – Alex & Kyle each got leopard groupers with the guns
  • Party!! Hot dogs, chili, homemade oreos, balloons
  • Passage to Isla Partida

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Email to family and friends dated August 4, 2013

Subject: Happy Birthday Alex!

We are anchored at this fantastic little island called Isla Salsipuedes. The guidebook doesn’t really discuss it as much of an anchorage but we heard from another cruiser about it. It’s not great protection but the forecast is pretty benign so we stopped just for a short stay. We are still with Lady Carolina and we are going to have a lunchtime party for Alex with hot dogs, chili, and a giant homemade oreo. The boys all play Minecraft together and they all gave Alex presents in Minecraft. Too funny! It’s possible we’ll stay here one more night but likely we’ll leave after the party to another nearby island.
Love and miss you all!
-D

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Facebook Post August 4, 2013

Happy Birthday Alex!!! The big 1-2