<3 RAH RAH RACHEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<3

Hey Terra,

So far I'm having an awesome summer! On Tuesday my family and I went to the Adventure Aquarium in Camden together since my dad has been taking a lot of days off. There were many tropical fish, seahorses, birds, and penguins!!!! I included two pictures of marine life from the aquarium, a leopard fish and a beautiful angel fish. I thought of you swimming in Malawi when we saw the tropical fish. There were also jellyfish with lacy tentacle-like things dangling from them, they were amazing! When you go to your beaches, do you have to worry about poisonous octupi or jellyfish? I hope not! Yesterday, my parents took us to Point Pleasant beach to enjoy the hot, yet breezy day. We had hoagies and went "shell hunting". A girl and a boy helped us find shells, they were HUGE! The water was actually clear so it made shell hunting very easy and enjoyable. After lunch, my dad took me out super far in the ocean to ride the waves. I was so afraid because I couldn't touch the bottom, I thought a wave would wipe me out but I think I did a pretty good job of riding the waves. However, when we were trying to get out of the water, a huge wave crashed on us and we were tossed around underwater. I landed hard on something soft and it turned out that I landed on my dad's shoulder! He was complaining and thought he had broke his shoulder, but he's fine. Afterwards, we dug this really deep hole and caught water in it when the tide would come up high so it was kind of like a pool. I'd have to say that the day was the best beach day ever! Today we went bowling, I don't have any pictures for you because I forgot my camera at home. My mom and dad had the two high scores of both games. It was a lot of fun! I think that it was harder because we were so used to Wii Bowling instead of real life bowling. Anyway, when you come back you have to come bowling with us, it was a blast! I miss you so much Terra! Truckloads, boatloads, trainloads, and airloads ( is that even possible? lol) Hope to talk to you soon! :) ;) :-) ;-) =) MISS YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!! <33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333

By the way, Terra, I had a few questions for you... Will you or your mom be sewing the custom clothes or will a seamstress? That sounds cool! At your school do they teach classes like Home Economics where they teach sewing? Also, you said you had to take swim lessons, do you have to take them everyday all year and is it in the beginning or ending of school? I wish they had a pool at our school? :) Do you have any other trips planned before the upcoming school year? Your trips sound like a lot of fun- once in a lifetime opportunities! Starting a brand new year will be very exciting, it's my favorite part of the year. How about you? I've got to go but I hope to hear from you soon! MUCHO AMORE!

SINCERELY ME,

RACHEL :)

Hi Rachel!
That sounds like an awesome aquarium and beach trip! I always loved to go to the Camdem Aquarium. We're getting a stream stress to make our clothes but I got to tell her what kind of style I wanted like how long I wanted the skirt, I wanted 3/4 length sleeves, a v-neck, etc. so that was cool. I don't think they teach Home Economics at my school and if they do it's only for the older grades. We have to take clubs after school and I think there might be a sewing club but I'm not sure. We have 3 terms in our school. The first term starts in September and goes until early December. In the first term it's swimming season so that's really only when we do swimming so it'll be my first time since I wasn't there for the first term before! I'm very nervous cause I don't really know any of the strokes but I guess I'll just learn. Right now we don't have any other trips planned because we're very busy with our mission team from our church coming and they're arriving today! My favorite part of the year was definitely the beginning back in Allentown but since I have no idea where to go here on the first day it'll be very nerve racking. Miss you!!
Terra