vacation day 9

these are from Saturday 27 febuary, they got to stay inexpensively at the isle of the palms in SC. Jack is a traveler.

vacation day 7

if you noticed that there was a "lull," it was because of the laptop/power cord crapped out. not a big deal thought K captured them on her phone and posted them on her facebook account. she will post them later here, because she is......AWESOME!! these pictures are from 25 febuary

Vacation part one

After the exam grading and review on that Friday, I went home, changed clothes and we got in the car and left for SC. I failed in my spousal duties in that I did not insist that K actually make reservations at a hotel on our route for that night. The consensus was that it would be better to drive half way or so and take a break for the night (I was ok with doing it all on Saturday). So as we traveled south, Jack and I napped in the back seat while K and B shared the majority of the night time driving duties. As it slowly dawned on them that there were no rooms to be had, they turned to me for my thoughts. I said that it would be cool to take a morning nap on the beach. And that’s what we ended up doing. We got to the beach on Isle of the Palms about 0645 and stayed until lunchtime. Ate and then went up to the NWS to Foster Villas. The nice cleaning ladies let us unload our gear, making room for groceries and we went to the commissary. After shopping and our official check in we ate and went to bed. The kids and K slept through the only rain we had on our entire vacation. Included here are some pictures at Foster villas, Jack’s first experience with dad feeding him without a high-chair. It was an adventure to say the least.

our mini vacation

The lack of Monday Jack this week was because of our preps for our mini-vacation (and because I was lazy). On Tuesday we went to northern Ohio, to the lake (Erie). We took the ferry to Kelly’s Island where we had lunch, rented a golf cart for sight seeing and visited the island’s winery, a very nice outing in itself. The ferry ride, the first since we returned from Europe was very enjoyable, I had forgotten how much that I miss being out on the water. B and H also enjoyed both the ride out and back. We returned via ferry and went to the Sandusky area to our hotel. We got a nice deal on a big room with four double beds (when things sound too good to be true…). The interesting thing is that when our room wasn’t being used for a room, it looks like a conference room or a small lounge. We found the old escape route plan and indeed, it was a lounge at one time.
On Wednesday, we went to Cedar Point and there was much fun, riding of fast and roundy-roundy rides and such. Even Jack had fun, as evidenced by the pictures, on his first outing to an amusement park. The day was wonderful, with temperatures in the low 80’s and the lake breeze kept things cool. There was a thunderhead that I watched all day but it passed to the south. Then the long ride home…. At least I took a nap. Back to the grind (ha ha) at the plant today, so enjoy the pictures.