Labor day is such a strange holiday to me, mainly because I didn't know why it was called labor day and why everyone gets a day free of work when logically you would think it was a day dedicated to working even harder. I do appreciate the day off, though, and after a little research I found that labor day is a holiday we copied from (don't tell buddy)--the Canadians. No wonder it's so weird :)Regardless, I love having a day off for labor day, and because it's one of the few days I have off from work, buddy and I decided to take our last summer trip...to the beach! And we didn't go to just any beach---we went to Florida! Can you believe it's only an 8 hour (6.5-7 hr for us) drive to Pensacola Beach, FL? And you'll never guess what we did when we first got there, but here's a little hint:
PARASAILING! It didn't actually cost as much as I thought it would, and I was so proud of buddy for actually being brave enough to come with me this time (not like the catapult ride on our honeymoon--I had to ride it by myself next to a 13-year old boy...):
The beach there was beautiful with snow-white sand and greenish-blue water. The water was warm, too, and though the waves weren't very big we still bought some boogie boards to play around with.
Buddy really wanted to find a whole sand dollar at the beach, but after searching for a couple of hours (it seemed :) ) he could only find half of one. So we built a "sand estate" instead. I dubbed it the Beazer estate, because I wasn't clever
enough to come up with anything else.
True to being in the South, everything can be fried, but this fried bologna sandwich was nothing like I'd seen in Memphis--gross!
We really enjoyed our time in
Pensacola, and I would have more cool pics of buddy to share if he hadn't deleted them all. :(
Last weekend we had the chance to meet up in Nauvoo with Dad and Mom Hulet who were on their way back home from Utah. It was great seeing them again and Nauvoo was as beautiful as advertised! We were able to attend a session at the temple which was gorgeous on the inside and out. Here's a picture of us in front of the temple. It was great being able to see many homes and places where the early saints lived and spent much of their time. It was also neat to hear the stories and testimonies that were shared by the wonderful Senior missionaries serving there.
Kendall, one of my friends in our church ward, has been bugging me to go fishing with him practically since the day we met. I hadn't been fishing since I was a boy scout which was quite a few years ago and had only been fishing a couple of times in my life. As far as I could remember I never found fishing to be very much fun. Finally, I caved into the peer pressure and decided to give it a whirl. 
