Sunday, May 9, 2010

Some New Zealand Trip Shots - Dad's selection


A small waterfall [not the actual McClaren Falls] in McClaren Falls State Park out of Tauranga


Carino, NZ - the catameran we went sailing on in the Bay of Islands - at lunchtime we moored in a sheltered bay of an uninhabited island and we went ashore to climb to the top - then had a barbeque lunch


Previous Americas Cup boats are retired from competition and tourists can go sailing on them - very popular


Louis Viton Americas Cup Challenge series: Azzura [Italy] vs Synergy [Russia]


Surf on the Rocks at Mount Maunganui - this shot took split second timing


Looking out on the beach at Mt Maunganui, from the path around the mount


Sunrise over the water in the Bay of Islands




A series of Sunrise shots from Scott Road Hobsonville


Heron on a rock in an inlet off Long Bay Beach


Muriwai gannet colony - Gannet in flight over the surf looking down from the cliffs


Should this be titled "Fishing" or "being mooned by a duck"


What the heck?

Last walk down memory lane for today...

Nikki's memory of MomMom...

Yesterday Nikki and I were remembering a funny story involving Mom.  On Mom's first visit to Ohio she had to stop at a gas station.  She pulled up to the pump and waited in the car for about 10 minutes.  Nikki asked mom, "Well--are you going to get gas or not?"  She said, "Isn't there someone who does that for us?"  Nikki replied, "ummmm NO."  Mom replied in a worried tone, "I don't know how to do that!!"  Nikki sighs, and says, "O all right I'll do it."  Mom do you now know how to pump gas?

Switzerland -Business trip May 2010


Schloss Meggenhorn where we had dinner after a cruise on the Lake to get there


Looking toward the town from my hotel window - overcast and misty rain


View from my room in the Palace Hotel out toward the lake. The hotel is a five star hotel - listed as one of the "Leading Hotels of the World"


One of the oldest churches in Luzern, built in early 1300's. Luzern is a picturesque town of 75,000

...and more memories...

The Baby Mullet.
Olivia--almost 2

More memories...

What kind of sick twisted family do we come from?!!!

More Memory Lane...

Remember this Christmas?
Christmas 2005

Memory Lane--Just for laughs


International fair at the elementary school last year.