Martins Visit!

We were SO excited to have people coming to visit again! The Martins were our first visitors since July. It definitely makes life easier here when people come to see us. Plus it's always nice to see familiar faces and spend time with family :D

So the Martins flew in late Thursday night. We picked them up from the airport and headed to our place. Since John and I had to work Friday, after we showed them around the apartment, Carter smothered them in love, and we caught up some- John and I headed to bed. 

Luckily, I was able to take a half day! I was SO excited. haha. Originally, we had plans to go sailing on Saturday but since the weather was going to be bad, we jumped in the car and headed to go Friday. We grabbed food on the way and made our way down to Islamorada, Fl in the Keys. It was about an hour and a half, but we had a groupon for 2 hours of sailing down there. Unfortunately, the groupon was expired but we could still use the value we paid for it. 

The place was beautiful! The rental was actually a resort that we were able to use while we were there. I'm pretty sure if we go back, we can use the resort more! We got our hobie boat and the guy who was working was nice enough to give us the entire groupon deal! We ended up getting a bigger hobie boat, but that was only an extra $10- so that's all we had to pay! YAY! Sailing was SO much fun. The weather was perfect and I even learned how to sail (somewhat) haha. 

The resort

Me and my boo!

Mom and Dad! The sail in the back was ours :D

 Getting us out of the muck

 John helped too

 Cruising!

 

Sailing was SO. MUCH. FUN.! AND I get to check one more thing off my 26 things to do before I am 27! Good thing Dad Martin knows how to sail and him and John could teach me!

After sailing we changed and met John's aunt for dinner and a place called Flanigans. It was really busy and noisy, but the food was good. Plus the company was great! 

Mom, Dad, Aunt Vicki, and John

After we got home we were all wiped out! I believe we walked Carter and lounged around- but really we partied so hard that I am having a hard time remembering. haha.

Saturday we slept in since it was rainy. It was great to sleep in, but sucked that it was rainy while we had visitors. We took them to try out our dininghall since last time they were here it was closed. Then we decided to go bowling. Or so we thought- there was an hour and a half wait! CRAZY! So we went back and played a game. For Christmas John's parents got us a game called Puerto Rico. It needs at least 3 players and you cant really make it work with just 2- so we had to wait until we had friends come. So we learned it with them. It took us 5 hours to learn and play. No joke. BUT it was SO much fun! I also made dinner that night and we hung around the apartment for the rest of the evening. 

So much fun!

Sunday I had to work :( We had RA training. Sad day. But John was able to hang out with his parents. They went to lunch and played Puerto Rico again. When I got home we decided to go out to dinner. We went to a place called Scotty's Landing. It's on the water and it's pretty inexpensive! SCORE! The food was really good too and there was live music. We'll be going back for sure. We may or may not have played Puerto Rico again that night. :D We are addicted. 

Nom Nom! The weather was perfect too!

Monday we both had to work. But I was able to eat lunch with his parents and then John was able to come home early. John took them to the dog park and Carter made a girlfriend. They played fetch together in the lake. Sad I missed it :(. When I got home they were still gone so I went for a run to prepare for the 5k this week! Then I made dinner and guess what we played?! haha. I also made brownies for my daddy's birthday. So we all got to celebrate a little in memory of him. :D Carter also got surprised with a ham bone from grandpa! He loves Carter so much he put it on the plane and flew it all the way down here. lol

Carter and the ham bone...

Tuesday we both had to work again but John came home super early and we were all able to eat lunch together and spend some time together before we took them to the airport. 

Carter LOVED all the time with grandma and grandpa. He adores them and they adore him. It's really cute. They love him SO much and spoil him so much (ham bone and a new toy! plus all the hugs and kisses and extra treats!) that I am a little nervous as to what it will be like when we have human babies :D At least we know they will be adored and loved a ton! haha. 

Anyway, their trip was great. John and I were beyond happy to have them here and we had SUCH a great time! Cant wait to see them again :D