Posted in Owen on Monday August 31st, 2009 @ 9:40 pm No Comments »
Poor Michael had to go back to work today. Owen and I had it lucky — he got to sleep in late then play with his new machine gun from his trip. We went together to finally pick up Layne and did couple errands. Afterward Owen got to play a few video games while I […]
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Posted in Owen on Sunday August 30th, 2009 @ 10:35 pm No Comments »
We got my little buddy back today. Owen had a great trip out west, visiting 10 states in all! They had a long drive back but got to see all sorts of things. I got to see them via Owen’s digital camera, which he actually seemed to use quite a lot. I’ll post some of […]
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Posted in Food, Travel on Saturday August 29th, 2009 @ 11:15 pm No Comments »
Back to Wisconsin today. We cleaned the beach house, washed the sheets and towels, and even found time to stop at a restaurant our host suggested to us - The Blueberry Muffin in Melbourne - which was as he said, excellent.
We took final pictures of the beach house, then headed to Orlando to drop off […]
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Posted in Travel on Friday August 28th, 2009 @ 11:45 pm No Comments »
Two days ago not only did my face, chest and torso get burnt, but my face apparently got so bad it started blistering, too. It all started really hurting today. But you know what? We’re on vacation, and going home soon, so we gotta keep going!
Because school started back this week in Florida, it seems […]
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Posted in Travel on Thursday August 27th, 2009 @ 11:54 pm No Comments »
After our dives we decided to drive south from Key Largo just to see more of the Keys. We ended up having dinner at an oceanfront restaurant in Islamorada.
After a great dinner and a walk around the docks, it was finally time to head home. To Melbourne Beach, that is. Four hours later, we […]
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Posted in Fish, Scuba, Travel on Thursday August 27th, 2009 @ 11:10 pm No Comments »
We reserved our spots with Horizon Divers after our Pura Vida dives. This time I asked all the right questions:
What type of dives do you do? (Drift diving, anchored to a line, etc.)
What size and type of boat will we be on? (Smaller is typically worse for me)
What is the current expected to be during […]
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Posted in Travel on Wednesday August 26th, 2009 @ 10:50 pm No Comments »
Since we want to dive farther south tomorrow, we decided to bring some clothes with us and stay somewhere along the way. We got to the Miami area, pulled into a McDonald’s parking lot and went online We get free WiFi at McDonald’s because of our home internet service provider. Thankfully we didn’t have to […]
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Posted in Fish, Scuba, Travel on Wednesday August 26th, 2009 @ 10:25 pm No Comments »
I got up this morning before sunrise. Let me just say that again, as it happens so infrequently: I got up this morning before sunrise.
Outside there was a beautiful sight. The sun just starting to come up over the ocean. Instead of waking up Michael (another amazing feat - I woke up before Michael) I […]
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Posted in Swimming, Travel, Owen on Tuesday August 25th, 2009 @ 8:27 pm 5 Comments »
Another gorgeous, sunny day today. We woke up fairly late, after our very late night last night at the launch. We made omelets, watched part of Family Feud and Punk’d (not a whole lot of channels here, but there’s always something interesting to watch…and when there’s nothing to watch, there’s always “Appliance Direct!“)
After breakfast we […]
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Posted in Travel on Tuesday August 25th, 2009 @ 7:20 pm 3 Comments »
We spent Monday at KSC. As a super added bonus, today the space shuttle Discovery was supposed to launch at 1:36am EST to rendezvous with the International Space Station. Just for being at the Kennedy Space Center on the day of a launch, you get permission to stay the whole evening and view the launch.
KSC […]
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