November 10, 2009 at 11:34 am (Brazil, My new life, Seeing the world, Travel)
Serra dos Orgaos National Park. Our day, which started with the intention of driving out to see the grand views, quickly fell back on alternate plans.
I’m glad it did. This place was stunning in the mist!
This man. How could I spend a day in the mist and rain with him and not smile? This park holds that memory close, and it will always make me smile.
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August 24, 2009 at 10:29 am (My new life, Photos, Seeing the world)
An afternoon out photo-shooting with my photography group at the Katy Heritage Park museum.
Photo-shooting is so a word.
We had an hour to tour the museum, grounds, and buildings.
With instructions to let the curator know if we got photos of any globes, bright spots, fuzzy apparitions, or flat out ghosts.
Yikes.
I didn’t see any, but I got some good shots, and really enjoyed the hour long discussion/lesson by one of our group members who is an extremely technical shooter. Any chance I have to learn more about my camera, which will help me get better shots is very welcome.
The mexican food afterwards was quite good too. Yum.
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August 20, 2009 at 10:45 am (My new life, quantum leaps)
That’s me and my girl, learning how to fix things. It’s so much less of a mystery than I thought and I’m feeling so much more confident, and less intimidated now.
Next up, replace the widshield wipers, remaining 3 spark plugs and all 4 ignition wires this weekend.
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March 8, 2009 at 10:50 am (My new life, international relationship, long distance relationship)
“When you wish for something with all your heart, the whole universe conspires for things to work out.”
Paulo Coelho
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January 7, 2009 at 9:56 am (My new life, Photos, Scotland, Seeing the world, Travel, UK, international relationship)
Viola! Finally. My ass is falling asleep after sitting here so long uploading photos. Drat you AT&T for rescheduling my high-speed internet connection!
At least now I’m caught up on one thing. My UK trip photos are up, organized, labeled and described. Now I really want to hop a plane and go back. Gah.
I tell you this though, I would settle for just holding hands today. I have a great life, but some moments it’s hard to be so dang far away from my heart.
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January 6, 2009 at 10:58 am (My new life, Photos, Scotland, Seeing the world, Travel, UK)
Six bazillion things have happened since I got back from Brazil, including a true romance, a trip to the UK, a big birthday, a new house, a divorce, and another planned trip to Brazil. There’s no way I can catch up on that, and I’m not going to try.
However, for your viewing pleasure, I have uploaded a boatload of pictures to Flickr from the UK trip.
I’m still working on the rest, but there ya go.
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July 13, 2008 at 11:20 am (My new life)
OK, I got the blog up and running so you can check in on me during my travels. Specifically my trip to Rio in SIX DAYS!
I can also be found on Flickr, and on Twitter.
More to come.
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September 10, 2007 at 3:57 am (Kids, My new life, Texas, divorce, quantum leaps)
When we lived in Southern CA we had annual passes to Sea World. The kids loved it and we found time to make the 90 minute drive down there at least once a month. We’ve lived here in Houston for a year and a half now and had not made it to San Antonio yet. With a 3 day holiday weekend available, I picked up the kids Friday night and we headed out on Saturday morning. My poor night owl children were not thrilled with their 5:30am wake up call, but they could sleep in the car during the 3 hour drive.
We headed straight to Sea World and spent most of the day there. By about 3pm the kids were wiped out, and we had all weekend to come back to the park, so we headed to the hotel to check in, take a break then go out to dinner. That was the plan anyway.
Poor Bryce was asleep before we left the parking lot. Drooping in his seat, mouth open and drooling kind of sleep. That was one tired boy. We made it to the hotel and got settled quickly, and once we stopped being creeped out by the six million crickets all over the place we relaxed for a while to watch a movie. We woke up about 8 hours later at midnight. All three of us crashed! So much for dinner out. We raided the cooler full of snacks, watched another movie and slept the rest of the night.
Sunday had us at Sea World again where I was forced to ride the big roller coasters by myself since my bravest of children chickened out at the last minute. Bryce was so sure he wanted to ride the suspended coaster, and so excited to do it until he actually got through the line and up for his turn. Nope. Not happening. So, a little solo thrill ride for me. No way was I going to miss my first chance to ride a suspended coaster, and it was just as much fun as I thought it would be. So fun, I did it twice. The kids got pictures of me the second time.
We spent the rest of the day seeing all the shows, with “Viva” being the favorite. It’s a Cirque Du Soleil type of show with beluga whales and dolphins. The hilarious clown was the best part. Bryce loved the water ski show, and we always like the seal/sea lion show.
We spent Sunday night touring the River Walk, which was really cool all lit up at night. Salem especially wants to go back during Christmas time to see all the Christmas lights up. The best part of the River Walk for us was the boat ride. Our tour guide was great and told us a lot about the history of the river, which was good for us because as non-Texans, we didn’t have a clue.
Monday morning we found an IHOP for breakfast and headed to the Alamo. We were told by our river boat guide to see the Imax movie about the Alamo first, then tour the site. In my opinion, that was a huge waste of time. I’m used to Imax films being really full of information and great photography. I think this one was made by high school film students with their dad’s old camera and a bad script. Anyway, the grounds of the Alamo are really beautiful and I’m glad we went. Next time though we’ll do our own research and find out more about the history and events on our own so we really know what we’re looking at.
Bryce’s favorite part? Across the street from the Alamo is a “House of Mirrors“. We got lost in there for quite some time. It’s especially difficult when you’re alone!
The drive home was quiet as Bryce was asleep and Salem was engrossed in Harry Potter. The three hour drive turned into 5 with heavy rain, but it was an easy drive and we made it home before dark.
I loved the weekend with the kids. It was really relaxed and fun, and we had a lot of time to talk, which we needed. It was a little weird to do a family trip with just the three of us, but we’re working this whole new situation out slowly and trying our best to figure it out. I’m glad we went. One day and one weekend at a time, we’ll keep trying.
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