TOONE

Hey Everyone, I just signed up for Room 101, my first blog ever, so be nice and tell me what I should do with it! :)

I wish the best of luck to the travelers and the movers! (I'm jealous and may need to find myself an Island internship!)

-Toone

Day One Solvang, California

Okay kids...Jerilynn is in charge now...so look out! On a side note we should look into inviting more alumni of our program to this little blog to see how they are doing.

So I'm not quite out to the caribbean yet. While I am waiting for my paper work to go through in the Cayman Islands, I am filling in for another girl in Solvang, California. She couldn't come out here until september so I got to come out here for a couple of weeks instead. I traveled out here with another girl in the progam and we came across some pretty sketchy roads and gas stations...kinda like the ones where serial killers live because they are in the middle of nowhere and they can murder tourists without anyone knowing.

But today (sunday) we went out to the beach! Yes. The beach in california...tell me who isn't jealous? And we saw of pod of whales (killer whales maybe?) their little fins coming out the water. We think they were babies. And we walked down some railroad tracks. And took pictures...which I will now attempt to upload here for your enjoyment!

Hello

I saw Jerilynn at the grocery store and now I feel guilty for not posting. I think it is a good idea to e-mail everyone the address. I don't think Vanessa knows it but I gave it to Wilson when we spoke last week. (Yes, he is alive, working for Coldwell Banker's marketing dept while taking classes at SLCC on graphic design and living with John, his bf of about a yearish off and on, which is going well.) I'm glad someone heard from Hollie. I can't find Amelia's address....again. Who has it? Where's Mandy? Vanessa and me are breeding my little bro with her little sis. Belle got spayed and I was so worried I had an anxiety attack. That's pretty much all that's happened! Love!

the caribbean baby

Awesome idea Jerilynn! I just made you into a admin on the blog...and I'll let you figure out how to do it...cause you are much better about posting and writing on here than I am.

So for those of you who are paying attention to this thing, I just got an internship with Del Sol (delsol.com) and I'm going to be heading out to the cayman islands to work for about 8 months. Surprise! Yeah I'm pretty excited about it. And I am totally going to learn how to scuba dive while I am out there. And I'm going to chill on the goregous seven mile beach and stare into the ocean...and live on an island! I might even get caught in a hurricane. I'm leaving on August 18th....which is a week from today. Yup...pretty cool.

Welp. See ya!!

Hello? Hello?! HELLO!!

Hey, where is everyone? Has anyone heard from Amelia?

Anyway, I haven't posted because nothing much has happened. Okay, that's kind of a lie. Liesl has been walking for a couple months now. She loves being outside. She turned one two weeks ago. I cannot believe how fast this year has gone. It's amazing to me.

We just took her to visit/meet her Grandpa in Richland, Washington. That was fun. For me and Jay. Unfortunately, Liesl has been sick for about a week now. She was so cranky and ornery and just wanted to sleep. So she did sleep. We went to a Martina McBride concert. I've never been to a concert before, and let me tell you, it was joy. My heart was singing I loved it so much! Mostly because I love Martina McBride. Anway, that was totally awesome. We also went skiing and boating, and that was excellent. I skied under a couple bridges, which was totally cool because I love big bridges.

Elsie, why don't we email everyone on the blog list and tell them where the address is. Then they can at least post comments. I miss hearing from Vanessa.

I talked to Hollie the other day. I thought she lived near Boise, and we were going to stay with her to cut our drive time into two days. However, she lives on the other side of Idaho, so that wouldn't have worked. She sounded well. She says her work has such high security procedures that they don't even let employees access the Internet there (and she doesn't have the Internet at home).

Anyway, this has been a busy summer. I miss hearing from you guys. Please post!

xo-Jeri-