Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Sunday Night

Let's just say that Sunday night got a little crazy. And our livers still hurt from the entire weekend...




...and this is how Josh and Jeremy BOTH felt the next day. I'd say that Josh was a little worse off. Lisa and I on the other hand, well...we know our limits. :)

Red Sox Game!!!!!

Our last night in Boston (Memorial Day) we got to go to a Red Sox game. It was such a great time!!! We even got to experience some interesting Bostonians. But it was really amazing to see Fenway and to catch a game.
Here is a pic from Beer Works where Josh got interviewed by a Japanese tv station of some sort because of his Matsuzaka shirt. He was definitely awkward-Josh and didn't want to talk to the lady!
And here they are eating some sausages loaded with peppers and onions. I didn't think that I would like them but actually they were really good!!!
View from our seats...GREAT seats! And we got to see an in-field homerun as well as a homerun into the Green Monster.

This was a great ending to a great weekend. We had so much fun and want to say THANKS THANKS THANKS to Jeremy & Lisa!!! We can't wait to do it again!

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Josh's Early Birthday

Since Josh's birthday is just after we get back, we celebrated with his parents last night. Here are some pics.

Kowe first...this was her gift for Josh's birthday. A cute little golf dress.And here she is begging. Of course. And being a total spoiled girl.
Here's Josh opening our gift. We have been wanting a new camera forever but kept saying that we needed to wait till we got pregnant. But to our surprise, his parents got us THIS! We're so excited to get to use it in Boston!!

Thank you!!! Happy early birthdayJosh!

Monday, May 21, 2007

Farewell Bertsch's!

Jess & Fritz are off to Virginia and they had a little going away party on Friday. I was horribly sick so I wasn't too much fun, but Josh had fun nonetheless. We played some funny games and would have stayed all night long had it not been for me being sick and having to work the next day. I didn't take any pictures except this one, but it's funny enough. Jeremy (left) made the guys chug a beer and Josh said it had been years since he'd done it. The funnier picture is one I couldn't get quick enough, but itty bitty Jessi was in the middle of the guys causing some sort of trouble. Pretty funny indeed. We're gonna miss these guys a lot but are excited for a good reason to visit Portsmouth asap!! And our vote for their next assignment in 3 years is definitely going to be for Hawaii!!!

Garden

We started planting our garden tonight. So far, so good...but we still have some things to do in it. And we're still contemplating an herb garden...so we'll see how that goes after we get home from Boston.

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Cubs Game!

We took a quick day trip to Chicago to meet up with Travis and catch a Cubs game. It was so much fun!!
Here we are at a microbrewery before the game. We got some deep dish too! (Though I took us on a LONG walk only to find that my favorite Chicago-style deep dish restaurant was CLOSED! Suck!) But our pizza and beer were great nonetheless! (This is BEFORE they got their dorky Cubs visors that they INSISTED on wearing just to spite me!) :)
My favorite city in the background...
Sadly, the game went into extra innings (15!!) and we had to leave at 12:30 or so because we had a mile and a half-or-so walk back to the hotel and Travis was in town for business, so he had a meeting early. The game was fun, but turned out to be a disappointing loss. Boo.
Singing in the 7th Inning Stretch
We really had a ton of fun and are so excitd to go to the Red Sox game with Jeremy & Lisa! I think I've convinced Josh that driving in Chicago isn't as bad as he thought and we're definitely going to take a weekend trip up again this summer!

Saturday, April 21, 2007

Our last day...and SEA TURTLES!!!!!!!!

Our last day at the resort :( We met some people walking down one of the beaches and she later found a sea urchin and put him back on the rock so he didn't die. He was a purple one.

There's Josh.
We made our way down to a beach that is rumored to have sea turtles that come on the beach to sunbathe. We wanted to see sea turtles SO bad all week and had no luck...UNTIL we made it to this beach, where we ended up seeing four or five playing around!
He's in the center here. The bottom is rocks.
We could walk out on these rocks and get pretty close to them swimming around
Here are two, a mom and a dad turtle. They're under the water near the bottom of the picture.

We didn't get lucky enough to catch one when it came out to sunbathe, but this guy came VERY close but we think he was just teasing. They usually don't come out till afternoon and we were there until around 11. But we were very happy that we got this close!!! After this, we went to a small town and had the BEST coconut shrimp and lunch, Josh got his last chance at some good fish before we left. Then we went to a world famous little general store that has these great sno cones with ice cream. Then we headed to the airport and it was...

MAHALO & ALOHA HAWAII!!!!

We had such a blast and hopefully we'll be able to go again in the future to see some of the different islands.



sunrise, sunrise

Sunrise from our balcony. Is there anything more beautiful?




Dinner after wedding

We had a couple of hours between the ceremony and dinner so we played around with the camera on the balcony. We got a couple of cute shots.

The theme of the evening was drinks! I had 8 drinks, every one being different! Josh says that I drank more on this vacation than I did on our honeymoon and the drinks weren't free on this trip! Whoops!
This is us toasting, me with a mai tai and Josh with his pomegranite martini
a lava float
Dinner, again, was wonderful!
Josh's toastSo cute!With our grass skirt drinks! Everything was sooo good! We also had green turtles and a hawaiian version of a long island and then some other drinks that I can't remember the name of!MAYBE THE BEST SHOT OF THE ENTIRE TRIP:Hahahahahahahah!!!!!! Tipsy much, Josh?? Travis' dad even had to take a shot of this one where Josh drank a fru fru drink!


The ceremony

Here we are before the ceremony started
Wohoo, handsome!
Robert, Travis, Josh
Beautiful Bride!
The Hawaiian tradition of placing leis on each otherThis is my favorite shot!!