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Conversations at 1:30 in the morning

Jenna sneaks into my room and starts this conversation. Keep in mind that I am deep in sleep, and wanting to stay that way.

"Mom, can I show you something?"
"Um, yeah, what is it?"
Jenna walks away and I dose back into sleep. After a few minutes, she is back at my bedside.
"Mom, I want to show you something. What are you doing? You are supposed to come with me."
"Jenna, I am doing what most normal people do at 1:30 in the morning. I am sleeping."
"But Mom, it has LEGS!"

Needless to say, that had my attention! So up I go to Jenna's room where a nasty camel cricket had found its way onto Jenna's wall. She had woken up in the night to get a drink of water and saw it on the wall. A quick smack (to the cricket of course!) and we all returned to our peaceful sleep stages once again.

Somewhere over the Rainbow...

With all the stormy weather that we've been having, it was nice to see a rainbow this evening. It went all the way across the sky.


I couldn't resist snapping this photo of Jenna. Just like her father!



I made the best cheeseburgers for supper tonight. I found applewood bacon cheese at Walmart today. That really does add just the right flavor to a cheeseburger...so yummy!

They weren't supposed to GROW!

In the spring of this year, Jenna and Zach were out in the yard playing, when they noticed our old, smushy pumpkin from the previous year. It was full of seeds that I assumed the birds would come eat at some point. My Dad and I were sitting on the swing and he "encouraged" them to plant the seeds as something to do. So Jenna and Zach planted several of the seeds in my flower bed, and afterward, they gave the seeds some water. My Dad said not to worry, because they would not grow. Apparently someone sprinkled a little pixie dust on those seeds because tonight, I picked my first pumpkin off the vine!
Here's a pic of the first pumpkin:


We noticed another pumpkin growing on the vine...such an odd place to grow. I guess we will have to get something to support it so it doesn't break off before it is ready.


It's kind of neat to watch these grow. I hope we will have some when fall comes around!

Here's a story...my brush with fame, meeting Greg Brady!

I went to the Center Street Jam last night for the first time. They had advertised that Barry Williams (aka Greg Brady) would be singing the National Anthem. I never had a crush or anything like that on Greg Brady, but I do remember coming home from school and watching The Brady Bunch while doing my homework. And in case you don't remember The Brady Bunch...

While we were waiting for the featured band to start playing, I happened to notice Barry standing under a tent in the back. I couldn't resist going up to meet him. Really nice guy, yet more reserved than I had expected. He was very gracious and agreed to let me get a picture with him.

It was a real pleasure to meet him, but the best part was listening to him sing during the band's intermission. Wow! It just gives me goose bumps hearing him belt it out like that!

A beautiful (but hot!) weekend at the Air Show

Here are some pics from the air show at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. K gets more out of these than I do so he spent quite a bit of time there. I enjoyed bits and pieces...my favorite being the Blue Angels show. I had wanted to see the Golden Knights jump out of the airplanes, but I missed it. I'll have to catch that next year.

Here's one of the planes from SJAFB.


The Blue Angels doing a fly by...K is in the bottom left corner, videotaping the show.


All six in formation


Coming down the flight line after the show


If you ever get an opportunity to go, it is definitely something to see!

Day 3 - Castaway Cay

When we woke up on Day 3, the ship was docking at Castaway Cay, Disney's Private Island. It was quite breezy that day, and I heard that they had trouble docking. I am so thankful that the Captain was finally able to dock. We would have been so disappointed if we didn't get to go on the island. We had breakfast at Beach Blanket Buffet, sitting out on deck to take in the view. One of the newer additions to the island is the Flying Dutchman from the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. This is the actual ship from the movie.


After breakfast, we headed out to the island. Disney custom built this dock so that guests are able to disembark directly to the island and not have to take tender boats. Here's another quick view of the Wonder as we were headed to the island.



The first thing I wanted to do (yes, it is all about me! LOL!)was to rent bikes and tour the island. We got our bikes and headed towards the adult only beach. The path goes down the old run way when the island was called Gorda Cay.


It was probably a couple miles to the end of the path. The view was spectacular. In the background, is the adult beach.


Then we headed to the observation tower. The paths on the island were great, all paved and flat! A few flights of stairs up and we could see for miles. Here's a pic of us with the Disney Wonder in the background.



When we were done with the bike ride, I headed back to the ship to change into beach clothes while hubby took the tram to the adults only beach (read: peaceful, quiet, and absolutley paradise). On my way back to the ship, who did I run into? Yep, Captain Jack Sparrow!


When I got to the adult beach, hubby had found a spot for us and had already purchase his bucket o' beer.


They had a cookout at the adult beach with steak, ribs, hamburger, hot dogs with all the fixin's. After lunch, we ventured out into the water. It was low tide so we could see a lot of ocean life. We found this starfish close to the shore in the water.



After some peaceful relaxation on the beach, we headed back towards the ship to visit the beach shops. The day on the island went by way too fast. That night we had dinner reservations at Palo, the adults only restaurant on the ship. We dressed up and headed down to the atrium for pictures (will post those later), then headed to dinner. Our server asked if we were celebrating anything and we told him it was our 11th anniversary. At the end of the meal, he brought up us this special message.


After dinner, we "waddled" back up to our room to change and then head down to the Farewell show in the atrium. I really hadn't planned on getting any pictures with the characters because I knew if Jenna saw it, she would be heart-broken. When Daisy & Donald appeared together (a rarity as far as I know), I couldn't resist. Donald tried to pick a fight with hubby, because he thought hubby was making moves on Daisy. Luckily, it all worked out in the end and no one got hurt!


After sitting and relaxing outside on Deck 4, we headed back to our room to find the last towel animal of our cruise. We still aren't absolutely sure what it is...anyone have a guess?


Unfortunately, it was time for us to disembark the next morning. The weekend went by way too fast, but it sure was fun. A lot of people may think it is strange that we took a Disney Cruise without the kids, but it was absolutely wonderful! I forgot to mention that our dining companions were 3 other couples who came on the cruise without their kids. I guess we are not the only adult Disney fanatics out there!

Thanks for reading!