50th Anniversary Trip: Added Photos from Grand Turk/Provo

I am adding this post for easy reminiscing about the Grand Turk portion of our trip with our family. I thought this would be better than salting the pics back into the earlier posts.  Thus it may not be all that interesting to many, be that as it may.  The first batch are from our daughter Laura and SIL Mike's collection, the second from daughter Katie and SIL Herman's.

The 2 families rendezvoused in Charlotte for their flight to Provo after 3:30 AM wakeups for the Sundquists to catch their flight from Detroit.

 Grand Turk airport is very nice



The kids loved our "potcakes" doggies.

Really nice beach in front, ok swimming to the right of the rocks

Laura and our coed, Caitlin. 4.0 girl!

Lots of good cousin fun and virgin margies

 Lori brought beach games like cornhole


 Castle-building cousins

Wild donkeys came by every day, drove the dogs crazy

The boys cooked up some great steaks and fish

 Filet mignon Christmas dinner- Katie brought the steaks from home!
  
Lots of conch shells everywhere

 Some good body surfing one day

Sunset quality time with the cousins

The boys went fishing and grilled the fish that night

Blessed by rainbows several days

Loved the AM coffee on the patio

Henri seems to like the place

 Family boat trip to Gull Cay

 Katie and Herman on Gull Cay
 Nice beach to themselves on Gull Cay, Jackster, Noah and Caitlin

Mike and Laura

 Did a little hike across the Cay

 Panorama of the north end


Crystal clear water

 Visit from some manta rays

 Lukie!


Our 50th Anniversary bash kicked off the right way!

Henri and Noah mugging it up


Caitlin loved the water

Biking along the salinas out back of our house

At dinner down the road, Saturday night

Our tallest and shortest grand-kids, Ben and Henri

Me finally remembering to enter our Suzuki from the right side!

Cruise ship center on Sunday, huge pool

We loved the sunsets

Fun snorkeling out front

Picked up our boat rides near the cruise port

Ready for some fishing!

Anti-sunburn  masks

Ben caught some fish, blends into his shirt

We had a few showers, most in the distance, had nice rainbows!

Many nice beachwalks, Luke. 


Following are Katie and Herman's photos of Grand Turk and their 5 days in Provo.



















































































































































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