Crisp cool air.
Beautiful mountains.
A real live, active glacier.
Tag: Getaway for Two (Page 3 of 3)
Road the train up the mountains..
It was beautiful!
Seamed like no matter how high you went up there would be more mountains.
Crossed over into Canada
Beautiful Yukon River.
A little windy up there.. time to get out our hats.
We were there.
Ran into Sarah Palin while out shopping for souvenirs.
Beautiful mountains in every view from the ship.
Day before getting on the boat, I thought,
“Holy beans! What was I thinking when I told Mike to sign us up for the zip line excursion?”
It’s easy to sign up for stuff when it’s a year away..
amazing how different you feel when it’s actually around the corner.
After learning how to fly straight and how to hold on
while swaying 80′ up in the tree it was fun.
Sun was up 4:30 am – 10:30 pm.
Can you see the Space Needle? It’s down the street right between our heads. 😀Way up in the top of this tower (The Smith Tower) taking in the sights.
This is the only day that it rained on us our whole trip.
What’s Seattle without rain? It normally only gets 35 inches a year.
Some places in AK get 200 inches a year.. but had sun just for us.
Miraculous! Thank You, Jesus!
See the round, white ball? It’s a radar. Mike has something to do with it’s existence. 🙂
They have grass and trees growing on some of the roofs!
We learned that their average tempreture in
the Summer is 70 and around 40 in the Winter. Not bad right?
Also they only have 50% humity and the bugs don’t like the dry salty air.
We were surprised by how much we liked Seattle. 
On the cruise ship, ready to sail away….
Seattle Part Two (Land Ho!) Cruise photos coming in next post.
We walked 3 miles to see the Space Needle up close this time.
Several glass rain covers around town.
Such a pretty city.
Our hotel room was huge.
Sight seeing again. Don’t we look like we had a great cruise?
Surprising Seattle
So impressed by the Chittenden Locks.
Need a ride down to the sea?
This toll lives under the Fremont bridge.
He’s holding a real VW Bug.
Loved our time away!
Our first day, I realized that this was the first time that
the two of us have flown away together since our honeymoon.
Pacific Beach was pretty cool. You can walk, bike or skate for miles.
The weather is perfect here.
La Jolla Beach
We saw baby and mama seals on the rocks.
Old Town has a ton of open air mexican food restaurants.
Everything was so fresh.
Birds hanging around for left overs.
On the beach at sun set.
Nice waves
Love how the sun melts into the ocean.
Beach performer.
Balboa Park Museums
Giant Turtles at the San Diego Zoo
Komodo Dragon
Elephants
Love the trees.
Saw many animals we’d never seen before.
Beautiful Cat.
So nice to see Savannah and spend the day with her at the Zoo.
Koalas were so cute.
Another Perfect Day.
A baby Giraffe.
It’s warming up a bit.
Hanging out in the sun.
Ryan and Savannah were so much fun to hang out with.
A Life Guard Friend for Judi
A cool animal from China.. I’ll have to look him up later..
should have taken a picture of his sign.
Time to catch another plane.
Hope all is well..
Loving our time away,
Jenny
Our debit card photos are over 10 years old,
and we have been getting some funny looks lately when trying to use them
for purchases, so we decided this morning that it was time to up date them.
The only catch was that the closest branch is in Tennessee.
We discovered that the border is only about half an hour away.
The fall colors are gorgeous. I love fall.
I took a photo of this Methodis church for Mom.
Davy Crockett was born not too far from here.
He has a state park near by. We’ll have to check it out next time.
We stopped at this store on the way back.
It had some awesome black bear quilts and beautiful antiques.
Our house has an address stone now. Yay!
Mike and I had a nice get way to Joe Wheeler State park last weekend.
The grounds were beautiful.
It was a really nice sunny day… not as warm as home but we survived.
Here’s my attempt at self photographing..
I thought these huge mushrooms were cool!
We saw about 14 deer. A group of about 6 stood by while we were on our walk.
The marina was the big deal there.
Too bad we don’t have a boat. 🙂
This was outside our window.
Mike planned a great anniversary trip for me
to DeSoto State Park up in Northeast AL.
He was speaking to me in my love language.
Taking me out doors to walk along a river is the best.
To top that he threw in some mountains and waterfalls
and a kiss by Queen Anne’s lace.
We stayed in this really nice little cabin in Mentone, AL
on top of Lookout Mountain.
It was fully equipped with everything from a kitchen to a hot tub.
Hubby and I talked about how it’d be nice to have money to invest
in a cabin like it, rent it when we could, and go up on long weekends to kayak, ski, golf etc. up in the mountain. We saw several for sale.
Mike made us some great big stakes on the gas grill.
It’s been so hot at home that we’ve started thinking twice before using our grill.
We are used to Florida’s milder weather.
It was a little cooler, much more bearable up in the mountains.
Water falls were easy to find a long Little River.
The park was really nice. It’s nestled in the mountains between a couple of little towns. To get from one town to the other you have to drive through the park, so there was no entrance fee. I like free.
I don’t know what it is about big rocks that are so impressive.
Mike gave me some cool, new jewelry that matched my top perfectly.
It’s not in this picture.. I got it later that day.
It’s my new favorite color.
Blue has been my favorite color since I can remember.
A few of years ago I discovered purple.
Now I am into this steely aqua color.
I’ve decided that I like changing my favorite color from time to time.
I still love sky blue and lavender.
I think my favorite, favorite color is a mixture of the two, periwinkle.
This rock was so cool that they built the road around it.
Once the morning started warming up, we decided to head down the
mountain to Fort Payne to find some air conditioning.
We stumbled across a big homecoming celebration for Alabama.
It took us a while to figure out that they meant
the country western band “Alabama”.
Turns out that they are from there originally.
For a little town of 12,ooo that’s a big deal.
We had chicken fried steak at the Santa Fe Cattle Co.
The food was good and we got ice water to go.
Our next stop was the Unclaimed Baggage Center.
It’s a in a little town called Scottsboro on the Tennessee River. Seeing all the stuff people had lost on planes was interesting. They had a Kirby vacuum cleaner just like mine that’s a steal at $300,
but most of the stuff wasn’t that great a deal for used stuff especially considering that they got the stuff for free. I guess that’s the law of supply and demand at work for you.
I found a Message Remix Bible for $10. I was thrilled. It’s practically new and I’ve been wanting one for months. Mike found some sun glasses and we also picked up some DVD’s; Felix the Cat, Home Alone, The Grinch, Skillet Worship and a few others. Most of them were around $4. A deal but non-returnable.. so we’ll see how well they play.
I wanted the Felix the Cat DVD because the kids have from time to time asked me what I did when I was a kid.. basically my answer is.. I watched TV and they have no idea what I am talking about when I tell them how I had a cat that looked just like Felix the Cat that I made watch the show with me everyday.
The kids survived the weekend.. new responsibility of driving and all.
We’ve got a busy week a head. Our creation scientist got his acceptance letter from AUM this weekend and has a lot to do before school starts.
Thanks for your prayers..
J
