St. George Day Three

St. George Day Two

Last day at the beach...

Sad, but glad too. I am ready to get home, get my puppies, sleep in my own bed but I will miss the ocean and the time with the kids. T. and J. are staying here for another week with my parents and brother/sister-in-law. C. and A. have to get back to their mother's house.

The thing that is bothering me the most is that I don't want to leave the boys here and I don't know why. They stay with my parents all the time. I know they will be well taken care of but still I want to keep them with me. That is unusual for me. Usually I am ready and need the break from the kids but this time I am not ready.

Today was a really lazy day. J. woke up with a slight temperature, stuffy nose, and sore throat. He woke me at 6:15 and I couldn't get back to sleep. It was a rainy & stormy morning, D. and I went kayaking at about 8:30 to see if we could find more dolphins but they were apparently sleeping in. We came back and by about 10 I couldn't hold my eyes open anymore. I convinced J. to come lay down with me and we ended up sleeping until 2pm! WOW! No pictures from our last day but I spent some good snuggle time with my baby and that is worth missing out on some pictures.

I have tons of photos to edit, I hope to work on that Sunday since we will be kid-less!

the perfect shot!

I have a huge fascination and infatuation with dolphins. If I could start my life over again I would go to college for Marine Biology and work at Sea World or Discovery Cove training dolphins.

Lucky for me, dolphins are everywhere at St. George Island. Today was like dolphin orgy day, they were everywhere and they were playful! Jumping, splashing, slapping their tails, it was awesome. We went out in the kayak and they were less than 15 feet from us! I tried to get some photos with a waterproof camera I bought at the drugstore, we'll see how they turn out.

At about 5pm this evening we were sitting out on the deck and another pod came frolicking by the house. In the span of less than 30 minutes I took over 200 shots (filled my camera card with RAW photos) but I got the perfect shot!

 

Photo shot with my Nikon D70s in RAW, Nikkor 70-300mm lens, Aperature priority, 1/1000, f/5.6, ISO 200

St. George Island Day 1

Swimming, swimming, and more swimming sums up the first full day here...

Vegas Day 1

I tried blogging from my iPhone during the trip but the Typepad app gave me all sorts of problems…grrr!

We flew out on Monday afternoon. Just leaving the airport was an experience in itself with the group of people we were travelling with! Most of them wouldn’t have been able to find their way through security if D. & I had not been there. Sheesh, how do people like that make it in today’s world? Case in point, one of the women brought a water bottle filled half way with Tequila (for her nerves). Doesn’t everyone know that you cannot bring more than 3 oz. of liquid through security? Wonder how often the security people get to confiscate water bottles filled with Tequila from passengers?

During the flight we were watching the moving map on the TV screen. When we flew into New Mexico one of the women stated “We better hold our breath here, this is where all that pig flu came from”. Um, yeah, the Swine Flu started in Mexico, the COUNTRY. We are flying through New Mexico, the STATE. And, I don’t think it can permeate through an aircraft even if we were in Mexico, the COUNTRY! Hard to believe but this WAS the same woman that had the aforementioned Tequila filled water bottle!

When we landed I immediately got a voicemail from the people watching our dogs. They have 2 dogs themselves and their Jack Russell Terrier attacked our Cocker Spaniel (Montana). She had taken him to the vet and (at the time) they didn’t know if he was going to make it. He is doing good now, came home yesterday (Friday) after spending all week at the vet and having several surgeries. He has lots of stitches and drain tubes right now but he is eating and drinking so that is a good sign. There is some internal bleeding still that we need to watch but the vet thinks it will heal on its own. Here are a few pics of Montana from today (don’t look if you are squeamish).

I feel so bad for him, it breaks my heart to see him hurt. I can tell he is in a lot of pain because he doesn’t move unless we pick him up to take him outside. But once he is outside he wags his tail so my Montana boy is still in there under all the cuts and bruises!

We finally arrived at our hotel – Paris Las Vegas! What a beautiful hotel / casino!

The view from outside as we arrived

 

The inside of the casino, made to look like you are outside in Paris!

D & I checked into our room and immediately set out to check out the Strip.

That evening we saw Mystere – Cirque de Soleil at Treasure Island. The show was AMAZING! This is the second Cirque show I have seen and I am more impressed this time! It is amazing what they can do!

That ended our first day in Vegas, baby! The show was over at 11pm Vegas time which made it 2am our time so we were exhausted! After our 30 minute walk back up the strip to Paris we crashed for the night!

More coming…