T.L.W.'s Blog

Swimming Pigs

Swimming Pigs in the crystal clear sea of the Bahamas

Fort Fisher Pt. 2

We went geocaching and exploring around Ft. Fisher this weekend. Found 4/6 caches, so that's good. :)

Alex, apparently eating a cactus.

Selected Mexico pictures

I went to Mexico back in 2006, so I thought I would add some of those on here.

If you ever get to go to Cancún, I highly suggest Blue Bay. It's affordable, all-inclusive and owned by an American. Thus, you can drink the water inside the resort, because they have a huge water filtration system. (you sure don't want to meet Mr. Montezuma). Anyway, it was a great trip and there were many friendly Canadians and Europeans in the resort. The staff spoke English (which made my mom happy, since she doesn't know Spanish), so no worries about that.

My favorite part? Breakfast! (El desayuno; Frühstück!) They made these fan-freakin'-tastic plaintains. And there were like 10 different kinds of juices, one of which was banana and amazing. And then there were the pancakes with coconut syrup. 

Drinks were included. Two words: piña colada.

Snow's Cut, pt. II

Here are s'more pictures:

"Danger: unstable bank. Do not go beyond this point." We really can read, I promise. But we like to live on the edge. Get it? Ha. Ha.















I'm not sure these trees are going to make it much longer.

Snow's Cut, pt. I

We stumbled upon this really cool little park while driving around Carolina Beach. It's called Snow's Cut State Park. I plan to go back and take better pictures. These were impromptu, taken with a cell phone.

Leslie is so tiny from here . . .

Pirate Ship!

Every year at the Azalea Festival, this pirate ship docks on the Riverfront for tours. I can't remember the name of the religious group, but they live and work on this ship. I highly suggest checking it out.

 

Norm had a little too much fun the night before.





Pirate ship!







































































He's the Gnome of the World.

Geocaching, pt. II (downtown Wilmington with Norm)

I think this is a good time to introduce you to Norm. Norm is our garden gnome. We thought it would be interesting (read: a good conversation piece) to take Norm with us as we cache or, more generally, just explore. Below are some lovely geocaching photos of Norm.

Bright and shiny things.

I love shiny objects. The way to my heart (ok, besides good food)? Anything I can wear on my wrist, neck or ears. Or fingers, but that's probably a long way away . . . which is alright with me. Anyways, I saw this and had to take a picture, because I'm sure I've said it more than once.

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My birthday/ mountain exploration

I know my birthday was a few months ago, but I thought I would add some photos from our hiking trip.

Just a lovely photo of the Blue Ridge Mountains before spring has sprung.






Leslie and I.







Leslie, on top of a very high rock.












This is my 80's hair band, punk rocker "I'm too cool for school" look.
The key is to be disaffected and slightly belligerent.

Greenfield Lake Park

Yea, that's the name. A lot of description in that name.

A really big duck.





They are not kidding.