Puerto Rico (Day 3)

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It's over.
But MAN WHAT AN ADVENTURE.
Today was phenomenal.
This whole experience has been phenomenal.
I never could have asked for a better trip.
Srsly.
Today started out with breakfast and morning session. We heard from some really great speakers and had an awesome breakfast.
Breakfast potatoes, eggs, asparagus, fresh squeezed grapefruit juice, and grilled watermelon.
Mmm.
Then after a great session, we headed to go get some souvenir shopping done.
I got my mom and Kandice something very pretty and I got myself a new elephant to add to the collection. (: His name is Alfred.
Then we decided it was probably in our best interest to head down to the water again.
So we went to the water park and the whole office was there!
We went down the water slides, played in the water, and got a little color (:
I watched the guys try to make a "Totem Pole" out of people.
Boy, that was something.. Something super funny!!
They were trying to get it 4 people high, but it never worked out.
Still hilarious, though.
Glad I got it on film. And then it was time for the Gala.
So we got all dressed up, Kyle in his green jacket (He looked so handsome) and me in my favorite black and white dress with my jacket over top.
(I'll be honest, feeling the greatness of that jacket is awesome.)
Dinner was AWESOME.
We had salad with mango dressing, Fillet Mignon, Crab, asparagus, and mashed potatoes.
And for desert was this absolutely incredible tart... thing.
I don't even know how to explain what it was. It was just good.
Heard some even more incredible speeches by some incredible people.
We had some that were enlightening, some that were so power filled, and then one that showed us all the work we have to do. (Which is a lot.)
There are a lot of people that are grossly under-insured, and a TONS of people that don't have life insurance.
If you know any people that fall under either or both of those categories, please please PLEASE let me know.
I want to help them.
They won't be getting better insurance than they can get through us.
I swear my whole life on that.
Now we're back in the room.
Almost packed up. We have to be up at 5:00 and it's 12:00 right now.
What does that mean?
We're probably not going to sleep. Haha
But seriously, I've never met a bunch of more grateful people in my whole life.
Everyone is so nice.
They all want to know where you came from, what contract level you are, how much longer till you're going to be a broker.
They truly care about you.
They want to know about YOU.
And they're going to be watching YOU succeed to make sure you're winning.
I know we're going to win. Me and Kyle have some wind in our sails and let me tell you there's a big storm of greatness coming for us and all the people we're going to help.
I think one of my favorite things about this whole trip has been the people. (That's a lot coming from me.)
They're truly incredible.
We were being congratulated for winning the green jackets by people that make $1,000,000 a year.
I was getting high fives by people I don't even know for wearing the jacket. We got congratulations right and left for it.
It was awesome!!!!!!!!
Seriously, I love this company.
I've seen what it's done for Kyle.
The man he's become because of the company.
I'm so happy for him and us. (:
And excited for him and us.
I LOVE PRIMERICA!!!!!

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Puerto Rico (Day 2)

So, Day 2 has been freaking amazing.
I've never been so proud of Kyle and all the hard work he's done.
I love that guy so much.
Today started out with us getting up around 6:45am.
I woke up to the GORGEOUS view outside, and was wide awake to see the sunrise.
It was phenomenal.
Next we got ready for the day, so we got showered and all dressed in business casual and headed up to the main part of the hotel (via tram) for breakfast.
We thought we were going to have pretty decent seats for breakfast, but were pretty sure our friends Jake and Pete were going to have much better seats than us, being they were seated at table 1 and we were at table 13.
So we walk in and we're front row. Not only are we front row, but we're front row, center.
Jake and Pete sitting at table 1? Yeah, they were over in the corner behind the speakers. :p
Long story short, we were STOKED.
Then we're looking around the table to see who we're sitting by and we happen to see the name tag of a Mrs. Loveanne Addison. (I'm not expecting you to know who that is.)
But I show it to Kyle and he freaks out, turns out we were going to be sitting at the table with the Co-CEO of Primerica and his wife!
Whaaaa?!
It was super cool, they had all of the upper-divison (BIG TIME) earners sitting with all the other people. So cool.
However, John Addison and his wife, Loveanne, didn't end up actually sitting at the table.
His wife did for his opening speech, but then they were nowhere to be seen. :/ Oh well.
The breakfast was great. Eggs, bacon, fresh squeezed grapefruit juice, and a fruit and yogurt parfait. (: YUM
Then here comes the part that makes me so proud of Kyle.
We had a few opening speeches, then came recognition.
So everybody starts pushing their way up to the front of the stage and wheel out the green jackets.
I don't expect you to know what those are either.
So, I'll tell you. 150 people in the company (that were not brokers) win the competition to get these jackets.
KYLE WAS ONE OF THEM!!
So he gets called up on stage, collects his jacket, and comes back.
I'm fighting back proud tears the whole time.
He comes to the front of the stage to meet me and he has two jackets, which is kind of weird. I tell him, "Well what are you waiting for?! Put the jacket on!!"
So he puts on the first one and it's too small.
He puts on the second one and it's a little too big but fits way better than the first.
Then I start looking around and see all the couples that had received jackets, and realize that the women in the couple have their own jacket.
WHA!?
I got my own green jacket!!!! So cool. And it fits like a glove.
The rest of the speeches were really good and very motivational. I found a few things in them to help Kyle out when he's having off days. (Which is good, cuz sometimes I just don't know what to say. Now I do (: )
So the session breaks out and we decide to go to Palomino Island.
What's that, you ask?
Oh, it's just the island the resort owns!! NO BIG DEAL
We take the ferry out to it, and it's gorgeous. It has a little shop on it, a bar and grill, and, of course, gorgeous beaches.
We played in the ocean for a little while, the water was perfect.
Then we decided to go on an adventure.
Let me tell you, it was good. I hadn't been on an adventure in.... years. It was good.
We walked around a whole bunch of rocks and stuff. Found some cool things, and a secret beach.
On the way over, the cool things we found included:
A seashell (Looks like a mini conch)
A rock that looks like a golf ball
AND a piece of coral that looks like a penis (balls included.) Hilarious, right?
Well I thought so.
Hahaha
Then we went back to the resort and decide to hit up the water park.
We played in the lazy river, in the pool, and went down the water slides. Very fun.
Next we headed to the rooms to get cleaned up for dinner.
We get to the room and realize Kyle's ID is no longer in our bag.
Cool.
It must have fallen out when we were on Palomino Island.
:/
Still no luck on finding that, we called security.
But fear not, if we can't find it, the hotel has some paper he can fill out so the airlines will still let him on. *PHEW*
If we end up finding it, we'll let you know.
So we go to dinner and it was fantastic!
I had chicken alfredo, Kyle had a cheeseburger (very good), and Pete had a mushroom swiss burger. (: mmm
Now we're just chilling in our room, watching Spaceballs. :p
Not much on the agenda tonight for the Primericans (:
We're taking full advantage of that.
So that was day 2 of greatness.
I really wish I could upload some pictures, I'll get a new camera cord when I get home and post some pictures (:
'night all!

Puerto Rico (Day 1)

HOLY SOCKS, YOU GUYS!
This place is awesome!!!
Let's talk about the plane rides, awesome. Short. Loved it.
And I slept on the plane ride, no problem.
Then, we get to Puerto Rico.
As soon as we step off the plane all you can feel is your skin soaking up all the moisture in the air.
Then we get on the buses to take us up to the resort.
The ride up to the resort was kind of long (probably because we were so excited to get there after minimal sleep, and way too much excitement.)
The ride up was so incredible, the streets were blocks of a slightly beat up house, next to a nice house, next to a jungle. Not kidding. It's gorgeous.
Then we get up to the resort.
I almost peed when I saw this thing.
The first thing you see when you come up is a golf course that's probably the entire size of UVU campus. HUGE.
If not bigger than that.
Then we get up to the resort.
HOLY. WOW.
I've never seen such a beautiful thing.
This resort is divided into three (count em) three sections.
The main floor is where the realllllly rich people can afford to stay.
Then the second section is where the slightly less rich people stay.
The third section is where the slightly less than those people stay.
But don't discount that for what it is, our room is like $400 a night to stay in.
It's pretty fancy, too.
So we get to the check in, I've called my bank to make sure that my card is going to work over here. We get to the front desk to pay the deposit $200 (OUCH) and ta-dah! My card doesn't work. Awesome.
I start crying because I'm tired, hungry, and just want to get changed into clean clothes and brush my teeth, and we're $100 short for the deposit.
The lady at the front desk was super nice and somehow waived the other $100, so we didn't have to pay it.
*Phew* Crisis averted.
By this time, it's almost 5:00, this time meaning the time we get to our room finally.
So we decide to take showers, and get ready for the dinner.
So we do, and we hang out for a little while before the dinner starts, just checking out the resort.
We go to the water park.
We go to one of the seven pools, where we saw an Iguana probably the size of me decide to take a dip into the pool. He just swam around the kids in the pool.
We saw two kitties. (I'm contemplating taking them home. :p)
And then we head up to dinner.
Wow.
What a buffet. Mahi-Mahi, pork, chicken, steak.
Salad with mango salsa, black bean and corn salsa.
Flour pockets. (I don't know what exactly they were, but they were good.)
At least 8 different deserts.
Sheesh.
They had all kinds of activities, like doing a little photoshoot, getting caricatures, and all sorts of stuff.
We got a caricature of Kyle and me as Romeo and Juliet, super funny.
Then the boys went and walked around the casino for a little while.
And now we're in our room, all ready for bed.
(Well, at least I am. I'm beat.)
Goodnight, all!

I'm having a Betty Crocker experience....

I'm not sure what's happening to me.

I HATE to cook.
But lately I've been in a baking mood.
Two Sunday's ago I made Lazy Day Bars.
Basically what they are is a box of cake mix that you put not very much liquid in them to make the dough more thick. Then you put it in a pan and put an ENTIRE bag of chocolate chips on it.
Chocolate with chocolate. (:
Life doesn't get better than that.
So now, this evening, I made peanut butter cookies.
Way easy.
1 cup pb
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1tsp vanilla
1tsp baking powder
Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes.
Breeze, right?
Well, they're really good too.
At first they're a little gritty from all the sugar,
but then you take the first bite and let it sit there for a minute and it melts in your mouth!
So good.
I ate three of them in like a 3 minute time frame.
Not very fast for most, but for me that's pretty impressive if any of you know how slowly I eat.
Here's the end result.


In other news, I'm gonna take a moment to talk about how proud I am of myself.
I've been eating so healthy lately!!
Nothing but whole grains, boca burgers, salads, and whole grain pasta with olive oil.
I feel so good!
OH and I've been drinking A LOT of water.
That's very out of character for me.
But man, I'm doing so well.
Proud of me.

AND
I'm leaving for Puerto Rico in 6, (count em) 6 days!!
AHHHH!
So excited.
I'm coming back with a tan, just you wait.
I'll post pictures of how awesome it was when I get home.
Well, friends, that's all.
Just wanted to boast about how cool I am for a minute!
(:
Take care all.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo