Turtle Farm

Turtle Farm.. and Hell

What a wonderful way to spend our day off! After today we couldn’t decide what to get when we get home..a turtle, a bird, or more fish. There are many pluses to being a resident here, it costs $45 per person to attend the turtle farm but since we are residents and showed our workers permit we were able to get in for $10. Awesome! I hope we get that good of discounts with other places around the island. The farm wasn’t crowded at all because there weren't any cruise ships in today so we pretty much had the whole farm to ourselves.

And Hell was, you know, hell. We really thought that we were there. Our feet hurt from walking there from Turtle farm, we saw three snakes (my worst favorite memory), it was hot, and not much to see there. As we were leaving turtle farm Braden asked how do we get to Hell from from here and I said sin.. hahaaha man I’m funny. But we can now say we have been there and took some pictures.

We took the bus today instead of our bikes, we gave our tushies a rest for the long ride. The buses here are like 15 passenger vans.

Our favorite part was being able to hold and play with the baby turtles.

Our new family portrait with the new addition to our family that I happened to put in my backpack as we were leaving, no.. but I wish.

I was having fun on our nature walk until one of the info signs said, look for our Pygmy Boa..and yes that is a snake!!!

Trying to pick up the 300 pound grandpa Turtle

These birds were so friendly, we wanted to take all of them home with us. But that is frowned upon there.

This would be Braden's dream to have a fish tank this big in our house. One day sweetie, One day.

We aren't as far from home as we thought.

And of course Braden makes a cute and sweet devil, but would you expect anything else.

These rocks were cool and made it really look like Hell

Braden caught some crab for dinner, well I guess for an appetizer.

Fun under the sun!

Hello Family and Friends! We miss you all so much and wish you were here catching some rays here with us. We had requests of putting up more pictures, so here they are..

Going snorkeling on our day off. We saw some fish but not too many cause we weren't over a reef.

This is our view right outside of our work, not a bad view!

Braden ran over some glass on his bike, so just patching the tire.

This is how we do our grocery shopping, shove everything into the little baskets on our bikes.

We got some fresh coconut from a lady at work, it is my goal while we are here that I like coconut and fresh coconut isn't too bad.

This is our Sunday school class that we teach. It is all the youth in the

branch into one class. They are wonderful kids and we can't wait to get to know them more.

Sitting at the beach after work watching the waves come in. (and yes, I did put it on a self time, run into my spot and make it look natural. :)

Apartment tour

Our Apartment tour!

ok, I think we got our video of our apartment to finally work... hopefully.

Our Apartment

MTV cribs (Grand Cayman edition)

We love our apartment, its in a good area and close to the beach. We are happy to have a TV to watch movies because we didn't think we would get any channels. But when Braden turned it on and saw his Broncos playing, he was a happy boy! We always find Geckos outside of our apartment, but last night as I was getting ready for bed and I found one crawling on our bedroom wall so Braden took it outside. We still haven't found any cockroaches.. knock on wood!

Love you all!!

Paradise

Our first week here in Grand Cayman has been great! This week we have both been working at Cariloha, its the store where everything is made out of bamboo. The people we work with are so wonderful, they are all so kind and welcoming. They are mostly from Jamaica. There is a veterinarian school down here and we have made new friends with some of the students that attend there. We are all about the same age and they are LDS as well. We had a BBQ with them the other night on the beach, it was a blast.

On our day off we went to the beach, laid out, road our rides around town, and relaxed. I will say I am not missing the cold weather back in Utah.

There is one branch here on the island, there is about 90 members that attend each week. They don't take their time getting us involved in the branch. Today we gave the opening and closing prayer in sacrament meeting and were called to teach Sunday school together to the youth. Since the church is on the other side of the island, members take turns coming to pick us up.

On our lunch break the first day.

We were missing home, and since we didn't build a snowman this winter because of the lack of snow, we build a sandman here instead.

We had a video of our apartment, but it wouldn't upload, so we are going to try to figure it out and have it on our next post. Until then... Chau

Welcome to our life!

HELLO, we are Braden and Jennica Hirschi! We are excited to start our new adventure in Grand Cayman. For those who don’t know where that is, it’s a small island that is 22 miles long and 4 miles deep, located in between Jamaica and Cuba. The average temperature is 85 degrees all year round.. not to rub it in or anything. We were chosen to do an internship for 6 months in Grand Cayman for Pedersen Worldwide. Pedersen Worldwide is a company that owns the stores; Del Sol and Cariloha. We will be working in both of those locations during the 6 month time period. We feel so blessed, lucky, honored, and excited to do the internship.
Our house is all packed up, and we are ready to go! The last thing we need to do is to say goodbye to our families. The longest I have been away from my family was a week, and that was on our honeymoon so I am having a hard time being away from our family for this long. I have already said goodbye to some of my siblings, and that wasn’t very easy. It’s difficult to be away from family when you have to best ones out there, both families! Our families have been so helpful with helping us get ready to leave, we are thankful for them.

I hope you enjoy our journey in Grand Cayman!