Getting everyone to Puerto Rico😂
A very long layover after a red eye flight.
This was the perfect place to stay with a pool, pickleball court, and lots of room and fun! Everyone was in charge of a meal and activity ~ truly inspiring what everyone came up with.
Old San Juan
Pickleball tournament - Nick & Justin are the champions
Beautiful Beach Pictures
Hiking Adventure😂
This was the most challenging obstacle hike, but it was fairly short which made it fun and doable.
Rock Waterslide💦
So fun doing this challenging activity together💪🏼
Grandma & Grandpa were miraculously waiting for us at the end of our hike. Here's the summary of the week Grandpa shared on his facebook post:
In April 2022, Russell M Nelson said: “Seek and expect miracles” We were privileged to be invited to attend Jeff and LeAnn’s 50th birthday family trip to San Juan, Puerto Rico, where we saw a never-ending string of miracles. 10 people, three different airlines, multiple cites actually made it with significant divine help.
Miracle 1: Grandma and Grandma and 6 grandkids traveled from St. George to Las Vegas, in TWO separate cars, at night, found the little airport offsite motel offsite parking 25 minutes away, got on the SAME every-30-minute shuttle, traveled to San Juan on 2 different airlines, with extended layovers in different cities arriving at different times.
Miracle 2: Grandma and Grandpa (2nd and 3rd to arrive) dutifully following Apple maps to the air-bnb in their rental car, end up in a remote San Juan jungle at night. Miraculously, there was barely enough cell service to reach Jeff (the only other person who had arrived), who was able to enable “Find Me” and guide us to a meeting place.
Miracle 3: Later that night, in two separate cars, were able to navigate to the San Juan airport, recover the 6 grandkids and return to the air-bnb. LeAnn arrived even later.
Miracle 4: The two cars were able to follow each other through narrow Old San Juan streets, at spring break and with a huge cruise ship in port, find a sketchy parking garage, see El Morro, return to the garage where the cars were still there, and return to the house.
Miracle 5: Jeff and LeAnn signed up their family for a waterfall hike and tour an hour and a half away. Arriving at the tour meeting place and expecting to caravan to the falls, grandparent’s car dies (but got three family members to the meeting place). LeAnn’s family cram into the remaining car and other tour members and leave. Roadside service completely unavailable, phone kept hanging up. After repeated attempts by an angelic construction worker who went to his house, got jumper cables and worked on charging the battery until it finally caught. We were able to drive to the airport, change cars, return to the meeting place and then navigate 30 kilometers in the jungle to a tiny clearing where we found the tour cars and arrived 15 minutes before the family returned from their 4 hour tour.
Miracle 6: On the tour, there was climbing rock faces involved, Kristen (Kurt’s wife) was directed to jump to a different place and really smacked her head. Miraculously, the tour group’s helmet protected her from what could have been a really serious injury.
Miracle 7: Attended the brand new San Juan temple.
Miracle 8: Returned on different airlines at different times to Las Vegas. Kurt and Kristen waited, were able to retrieve our car and were driving by at the exact moment we were exiting the airport, and drive us back to St. George (4:15 am).
“Seek and expect miracles.” They happen. Every day.
So many fun times🥳
Headed home ~ what an awesome family adventure!
Best 50th Family Vacation EVER💙
