Alpine Loop

During another trip this summer I spent a few weeks in Utah and drove up Provo Canyon, through the Alpine Loop and walked around Cascade Springs with my sister and nieces. The pictures do not really do it justice, but I will share them anyway...

For Bernie

I'm an amazing photographer

Not really.

On a recent trip home I went to Swiss Days in Midway, Utah with my beautiful sister Robin. On the very lovely drive home I attempted to take a picture of Bridal Veil Falls. I say attempted because it turned out like this-


(Take note of the rearview mirror- if that was the whole picture it'd be much better).

Luckily Robin already had a picture of the waterfall and was nice enough to share it.



As you can see- she is a much better photographer than me. I wasn't a complete failure though- I did snap this amazingly cute picture of Rusty enjoying the ride (of course he makes that very easy by being so cute all the time).

back to summer

After my last trip to DC, I returned home and got to spend a day with my sister who was kind enough to travel across the country to hang out with Rusty while I was in DC. We ran all over town and also went to Jamestown Settlement, here are some pictures....

I'm not a huge fan of the animal skins.

The next visit...

Shortly after my dad was here my sister and nieces came for a visit- - I miss them a lot so it was amazing having them here in my new home.

Here are some pictures from their trip...

We went to the beach and Rusty actually got in the water- usually he just barks at the waves and runs away.





We also went to the zoo in Norfolk. It was a fun day- but way too hot- we were all rather grumpy after being in the heat and humidity here.







We also took a short trip up to DC. (the first of three this summer- I have been meaning to get up there all year and was giving myself a hard time about not going, I guess I more than made up for it).





I also took them to the Yankee Candle Store (my friends pointed out that Virginia is an odd place for Yankee Candle seeing how it's in the South, and then of course we had to have a debate about whether or not Virginia is really part of the South- I argue that it is since it was the capitol of the confederacy). Anyhow, there is a little show in the candle store- much like Chucky Cheese, ironically it also featured mice and they sung about cheese. My nieces really liked it so I guess that's all that matters.



And of course we had to go to CW (Colonial Williamsburg) here are a couple pictures- they aren't too exciting.

Thunder Storm

We had a massive thunder storm last night. It reminded me of a time when I was a kid and lightening struck near our house. My sisters might be able to correct or add to my memory of it.

Anyway- so one night we were all sleeping in the same room (my sisters, me, and our dog, Ginger) my younger sister and I shared a room but I'm not sure why Bernie was sleeping on our floor- maybe they were painting her room or something. The lightening struck a manhole cover a street over- the room lit up and stayed that way for several seconds and there was a loud crash. Ginger jumped up and sat on Bernie and the garage door started opening and closing over and over. We (read: my parents) had to replace the garage door opener and the tree in the middle of our yard was split in half- which killed it- I missed that tree.

That is a less exciting story now that it is typed out. Oh well, I'm sharing it anyway.

And, just as a side note, Rusty isn't afraid of thunder at all- he sleeps right through it. He also isn't afraid of the cannons and gunfire that sometimes go off at Colonial Williamsburg- it's the tourists that scare him.