Ripley's Aquarium

My sister-in-law, Sharra, and I took the kids to the aquarium!
My nephew, Reid
the kids loved this scary fish slide!
Lobsters!
Yikes! A horseshoe crabbie...
the boys checking out something... Sharra in the background!
The Manta Ray tank!
I may have some better photos to add once I get Sharra's pictures!

cadster

I was able to take each of the kids out while in Myrtle Beach and on my date with Caden, we specifically sought out this guy for a picture! Caden found this piece of wood on the beach, and for some reason, decided he needed to keep it forever. So he hauled it all the way home!

Does this seem familiar to anyone? If you read the blog often, you may remember Caden's surf song last year...

Mini Golfing in Myrtle

One day during our vacation, the 3 of us went to this cool pirate minigolf place.

While we were playing, there was suddenly a battle between the ship in harbor and the fort behind Caden in the picture above. There was shouting between the men, canon balls hitting water, and it ended with the fort going up in flames. The canon balls were fake, but I'm telling you, the fear was real! But After it was over, it was all Caden could talk about!

The new picture on the right of the blog is also from that day!

The fun Myrtle Beach park

Safely Home

My sweet Grandma is now with Jesus. As Caden said, "is this good news or bad news?" I told him its GREAT news for her. I would love to be able to see her recieving line...I know its a long one! See Lynne's blog (link on sidebar) for a sweet picture and post.

Dear Island Trip

Here we are on an excusion to a nearby island for snorkeling, kayaking, banana boat rides, and lunch.
We went way past the island destination for a look at sea lion rock. The Captain turned off the motor so we could get good pictures and hear them barking!
Then when he tried to start it again, there was trouble. You can see the billowing smoke. :)
So we put-putted to the island, taking us quite a long time! But here we are...

So peaceful.
Then at the end of the day, the crew came in about 4 little fishing boats to take us back as our original boat had been towed home! :)

On our own in Mazatlan

So easy on the eyes... This guy reminded us of China! I think I could've gotten him in my carry-on. This was a large market downtown much like our Q-mart at home - well, in some ways. You don't have to pay to use the bathroom in Pennsylvania. Otherwise I might be broke.

There were some beautiful buildings in downtown Mazatlan. Neo-classic architecture, according to our city-tour guide. Also behind me, is a mode of transportation exclusive to Mazatlan, called a Pulmonia, which is Pnuemonia in Spanish. When these things were first starting to be used, the taxi drivers told people not to use them, or they'd get pnuemonia. Apparently no one cared, because these are everywhere!

The opera house...we could hear a voice lesson going on inside.

Daytime picture of the cathedral - so beautiful.

This is the only catholic cathedral that has the star of David on it...in each of the 28 or so stained glass windows is a star of David....a thank you to the many Jewish contributors to the building project.

Sweet girl we were playing with on the bus...we'd bought a hand-made doll from she and her mom the day before. See her sweatshirt - all around the world, girls love princesses!