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Dad and I searched the Florida Everglades for alligators and boy, did we ever find them.
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I’d almost say my favourite part was when we were riding back to base with the other canoers at the end of the day, listening to them talking about how they saw nothing the whole time they were out there and we kept our moths shut knowing that we had all this.
This has been my first vacation since Belize in 2006. We’re on the brink of my next trip coming up in 2 week so I thought it was a good time to show off the Florida photos.
It didn’t matter that the temperature was cold, Florida was still fantastic. Clearwater Florida is beautiful, Epcot was fun and the canoe trip through the everglades will stay with me for a life time. But I’ll save that story for the next post.
It turns out it is a small world after all. This is so something that could only happen to my mom. After meeting a complete stranger online and driving 3000 kilometres to meet her and rent the apartment in Florida. We find out she’s my mothers long lost cousin.
Since a picture tells a thousand words I’ll keep this short and let the camera do the talking for me.
My favorite part of Halloween is carving the pumpkins and this year’s was as fun as always. Mike’s mom has been growing another gi’normous pumpkin in the back yard all year long and at the last minute we decided it was time to carve it up.
I’ve been wanting to post these pictures for a while now but there’s really only one day a year that a blog post like this is suitable so without further adieu here it is.
This week’s geocache was one of the most exciting yet. We climbed into a small underground cave hidden in the woods near the Mackenzie King ruins. With all the snow around we had to use photos from the web site just to find the location where the cave SHOULD be. With photos in hand we were able to match up 3 big scar lines on the boulders around the entrance. Then facing a rock wall in front of us, once we knew we were at the right place we had to dig out the cave opening before we could crawl in, through 6 feet of snow and under 100 feet of rock.
This trip really took a lot more out of us then we thought it would. There were 2 other caches planned for that day that we couldn’t get to. After trekking through waist high snow with that cold winter chill in the air we were really feeling it by the time found and dug out a path way into the cave. Particularly when you add to that the unsettled feeling of being in a 4 foot high underground cavern for the first time in my life.
Before heading underground, the excursion started with a photo shoot at the ruins on the Mackenzie King Estate. This first photo is one that I think really shows some real artistic form. Out of about a dozen similar shots, this was the best one. The slight leaning angle of the columns truly creates scale in this photo.
We celebrated Tashia’s 21st birthday at the Richmond Fair. Rides, Horses, Cows, they had all the ingredients for authentic County Fair.
I think our favorite part were the BBQ Ribs straight off the farm.
Next year well be back for the demolition derby.
It was a fun day and we came home with some great photos to add to the album.
Today was a great opportunity to shoot some high speed photography at the golf course. The details that are picked up in the golfer’s swing at twenty frames a second are fantastic.
I was pleasantly surprised that my best pictures turned out to be all the young guys. I was really expecting the old pros to show them up, out on the links.
I’ve posted only a few of the many photos of our family golf team in their excellent form. Believe me there were also plenty of not so proficiently preformed shoots as well. Specifically the close up I got of uncle Wayne’s golf ball as it sourced across my head. I will say, if it had hit me it would have been my own fault for sticking my nose out to far.
I’m finally holding it in my hands. I’ve been wanting this camera for 3 months now and here it is.
I took my Fuji out to an old mill in the Meech Lake area for a first photo shoot. It was a good start but I’ll need to read the instructions to figure out what this thing can really actually do.
I also got all the little extras to go along with it. Most importantly the digital picture frame. I can show off my 11 Megapixel photos to the world on a 600 by 400 screen.
Yesterday was Red Bulls Flugtag event at the Museum of Civilization. Flugtag is German for … well that doesn’t matter. The point is they make a bunch of floats and put on some silly costumes to show them off in. And since that stuff all gets old pretty quickly, they liven’ it up by throwing them off a cliff into the Rideau River.
Just watch the videos, they’re pretty self explanatory.
But before we do that;
“Mom, can I borrow your new video camera? Thanks”
Happy First Birthday to my Nephew Alexander.
Alex had an amazing fun time and a sugar high that he probably still hasn’t gotten over. He got plenty of great presents, I’m happy to say that my train was totally the best gift.
I hope I’m invited to next years party.
The first thing I did with my new BlackBerry was sign up for a Twitter account.
I’ve been sent the invite about 3 times now and never wanted to register because I didn’t want to have to twitter from my PC. “Still Sitting at Computer” doesn’t sound like a very exciting post to me. Texting on the go is clearly what this was made for.
I told Tashia to sign up at the same time as me so we could be twitter buddies.
Check out the top right hand corner of my blog page where I’ve added my Twitter feed. It looks good, works well and it perfectly fills up that gap between the header and the sidebar that was there for so long now. I stretched out the background Image to create a good spot for it to sit.
All ‘n all. I’m very happy with the BB. Props Mike. I’ve sent more SMS messages in the last 4 days then I have in the past 3 years.
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