Home from the Cruise

Made it home from the Mexican Riviera Cruise. We had a great time. Made new friends, and saw the sights and beaches. Ate lots of good food. A Fun and a safe trip. Mom and captain Jack on the pier in Cabo.

Los Arcos, lands end. This is the view from our balcony when we woke up

The two ships in harbor in Cabo. the only day we had to tender in.

The sapphire Princess, a beautiful ship.

This is a video from our balcony in Cabo.

Boys Golf Trip

David, Drew, Denton and I had a fun golf vacation in St George and Mesquite. We played some beautiful courses, although the weather was cool some days and rained on us one day.
The prettiest course was Wolf Creek in Mesquite. It was a tough day, but there were good shots and bad shots and fun all around.

This is the first hole. You can see green all around are the red rock.

This is the tee box on a par three. A good climb to get up there.

This was the hole. 185 yds to the green. No one was on. Drew made it short right.

This is the Sand Hollow course in St George. The greens were lightening fast.

This is the tee box on one of the prettiest holes. We all played the hole well.

Video of my tee shot. My famous pull slice. Although I was driving good that day.

Brushed by hurricane Rick

Last night Debbie were woken up by howling winding and surging surf. About 3:30 am we got up and looked out the deck. The winds were 65 mph and the waves were just crashing in. It wasn't raining then just blowing.

In the morning we rented a car and drove up into the Sierra Madre mountains to the little town of San Sebastian. We got lost a couple of times on the way, but with my poor Spanish and some english from a truck driver we found the turn off to this quaint mountain town.

We had some rain there, but had lunch and toured the town and came back down. When we got to Puerto Vallarta it was a toruential rain. The roads in some places were like rivers and I doubted the little car were we driving would make it through. We make out fine. No wrecks and found the new Costco and the new walmart. Then off to Fajita Republic for dinner. By dinner the rain had quit and the skies cleared. I'm going to play golf again in the moring.

Hope the weahter stays nice now the storm is over.

Cloudy Puerto Vallarta

We're glad to be back in Mexico. The hurricane missed us but big swells took out some of the beach by the old Mayan Palace. Lots of contruction here. The Grand Bliss is going up next to the Grand Mayan and the Grand Luxxe is done inside and should open the end of Jan 2010.

I'm going on a walk to the new golf course this afternoon. We did the owners update which took all morning and we didn't buy anything.

Here are a couple of pix of the construction from our room.

Halibut Fishing

The biggest halibut I've seen caught, 200 lbs. By Malyn Malquist.

A couple of the salmon I caught.
Where we lived in Karluk

Old men and the sea

Got one on.

Our catch of the day.

A scruffy bunch heading home.

Malyn sent me some pictures from our halibut fishing the first day off the mouth of the Karluk River in the Shellikof straits. He caught the biggest halibut, I caught the next biggest. It was the best day halibut fishing we have ever had there. ll total halibut were caught.

Back From Alaska

We had a great trip to Kodiak Island, Alaska. Our flight was cancelled to Kodiak the first day because of weather, but we got in early the next morning and made it on the charter for halibut fishing. The weather was kind of rough, Dale Reese got sick, but he still managed to catch fish. We caught 14 halibut, the largest was 140 pounds.

Saturday we flew to the Karluk River. The weather was good and the ocean calm so we went out in our boats to the ocean for halibut again. We caught 11. A couple of 80 to 90 pounders then Maylyn got a barn door. The halibut was huge. We estimated weight by length and girth to be 196 lbs.

The salmon fishing was the best ever. We had our limits early in the morning, then went out in the afternoons to catch and release. I landed more than 100 fish. I even got a nice steelhead.

We saw bears every day. It was funny to see them try and catch the red salmon. Home safe and sound. Total of processed fish was 1349 pounds.

Flat Stanley went with me. He was nearly eaten twice.

Flat Stanley says sorry BYU. Maybe next year.

Phoenix Hot Hot Hot

Just a quick update. Fun in the pool. Dog vs boy swim race. Kelmen's baptism was awesome.

Then last night Drew and Denton did surgery on me.