Cabo San Lucas, Mexico pt 1

In January we had the opportunity to go with most of Lin's family to Cabo San Lucas. It is located on the very tip of Baja California. It was my first time out of the country and it was amazing. Lin's brother has a timeshare so we stayed in an awesome hotel right on the beach. Most of our time was spent on the beach, in the ocean or in the pool.

Our awesome 11-seater van

It was beautiful there. One of the days we went into the city of Cabo. We walked through the market area and went down to the bay. Some of the group was getting hungry so they stopped at a bayside restaurant to have lunch. Lin and I didn't really want to eat there so we volunteered to go back to the van and get some items. On our way to the van we stopped at a small taco shop and had delicious street tacos. They were really incredible and very cheap.

After lunch we took a glass bottom boat ride in the Sea of Cortes and out to the point of Baja.

The point (Pacific Ocean on left and the Sea of Cortes on the right)

The Skinner Family

The hole in the rock. At high tide water from the Pacific comes through to the Sea of Cortes.

The Arch (looking through to the Pacific)

Fish under our boat

During the boat tour they let you get off at a beach on the peninsula and go snorkeling. This was my first time snorkeling and to be honest I am not very good. I am not good at diving down so I stayed on the surface and Lin and I were both having trouble breathing through the mouthpiece so we opted to just use the masks and come back up for air.

Wow!! Its been too long

So as you may have noticed I have not blogged in quite a few months. In fact we are now closer to 1 year since my last post. A few big things have happened in our lives since then so I will try to catch you up without boring you. My last post was in early Fall. I was just starting a new semester which had me taking 1 class, doing 20hrs of my internship per week, working 15 hrs with the Cannon Center and teaching clogging on Saturday mornings. Lin was also working and going to school. It was a very busy semester and we were both running on empty. For my birthday Lin decided we should get away. We save up money in a jar for special occasions (birthdays, christmas, etc). Somehow we actually had enough to get a room in Park City for a weekend. It was so much fun to get away and Lin took me on a shopping spree at the outlet stores.

After that trip it was back to the grind of the semester. My internship was going well. I interned at Stouffers in Springville. They pretty well let me design the internship and had me doing a lot of ergonomic studies and recommendations. I also had the opportunity to work with an ergonomics team put together from different plants around the world. This was an awesome opportunity as I got to be on a couple international conference calls and talk about my ideas and knowledge about ergonomics (which is not a lot so it was nerve wracking).  

Novermber came and it was suddenly the last few weeks of my very last semester at BYU. This was a very exciting prospect but also a little scary. We would be stepping into the unknown when I graduated. I officially graduated on December 16, 2011.

Christmas was a simple event this year because we would be taking a trip to Mexico with Lin's family in January. I will post about that in a subsequent post. 

That about catches you up on the last few months of 2011.