Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Dive with us

I have been trying for over a week now to put some of our dive movie clips on my blogspot, and I have either run out of time or out of patience. Always something goes wrong while it is uploading. I'm going to try one more time, or give up. So, let's see if this works out!

Here is a short clip that will make you sea sick because the water was really choppy and I recorded this while snorkeling. So, I apologize in advance, or take this warning and skip this one and go the next one! Cassandra did pretty good snorkeling but this time Jase really disappointed us. He didn't like the salt water, of course, Cory lost his patience with him and I kept trying and trying, but finally gave up as well. Maybe next time!


I believe this is the clip of the stingray.


Our first nurse shark sighting.


Cory and I were second guessing ourselves, once the nurse shark turned around and headed right back toward us "IS IT REALLY A NURSE SHARK OR A GREAT WHITE HEADING RIGHT AT US?



This is Mark waving hello and pointing to Lucas to record the sea turtle sighting. Shame on whomever the diver is, it's a big no-no to touch anything while your in the water. (Lucas and I learned the hard way when we were diving in Cancun because our dive master got onto us)


And this is me, about 105 feet deep, sucking up my air pretty quickly and trying to tell Cory, "hey, I only have 1,500 psi left". So, this clip gives me fond memories of running out of air on the way up on this dive and having to buddy share air with Cory at the safety stop. Yea, I lived to tell about it, oh what fun!

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Florida Keys Vacation

Oh where do I begin and end about telling you about how wonderful our vacation to the Florida Keys was?



These pictures were taken at a restaurant that had a glass bottom. They gave the kids a container of oatmeal to feed the fish with. Jase was so excited, he layed on top of the glass and I guess he was trying to figure out how he could become a fish. Don't know...
















Don't ask me why.......I just love cute signs. We also saw another sign at the boat gas station that said, free beer tomorrow. We kept going back everyday filling up with gas, but there was never any free beer. When will tomorrow ever come????








This picture is funny to me because of the bathing suit that Cassandra has on....I remember her coming out of her bedroom, all out of breath saying, "Momma, momma, you gotta do some laundry, this is my last bathing suit." Priorities, priorities!!!!!!!!
























Whew........this was a hot day. We drove 100 miles to mile 0 where the road ends but paradise begins in Key West. The guys went diving at 5:30 a.m. while Sharon and I drove up at noon to meet up with them. Needless to say, we got there way too early. We should have gotten there in the afternoon when it was cooler and when the street entertainment began at 5:30 p.m. The kids were wore out!

































Feeding baby chicks at Mallory Square. This was really an awesome place, they had all sorts of street entertainment. A gymnist who was 52 years old, doing push-ups upside down and jumping through a small hula hoop. A man spray painted in silver who worked on his bicycle making a squeeking noise, a man who had trained his dog to collect dollar bills while he played the banjo, jugglers, balloon artist and not worth mentioning was a guy in a red bra strumming on a guitar. Whatever????































Enjoying the mall that had AIR CONDITIONER!
































This guy put sunglasses on his dog. Too funny....















The silver tin man, painted Cassandra's nose silver. She froze solid when she went up to him. She looked scared to death, then poor Jase SCREAMED bloody murder. He was very scared of him.















Gotta love the beach shorts.















Just before sunset pictures.





























Time to pose.















Lucas too!















I liked his sunglasses!































Jase loves to wear a swim shirt now with his swim shorts. Of course I couldn't just buy him one without buying the princess one too.











































































One happy pappa!















Daddy's Girl!















Momma's Boy!






























We miss you Uncle Mark and Aunt Sharon and Cousin Lucas. This was our last night when the Nardin's left for the airport. We hit the road the next morning.















Posing






























Still in love after 12 years (10+2)














We were so proud of Jase he ate 8 baby back ribs and here he is showing us his MUSCLES!















Pretty good place to eat but both of us had stomach issues the next morning. Was it something that we ate??














This was at a Mexican Food restaurant on our way home. Cory told me that I was driving so needless to say, the buy one get one free margarita's went to waste. Well, one of them did.














Wow.......look at me....no makeup, no hair do's for 10 days. I look rough but HAPPY!


















Katie's Wedding

I put all of these pictures up on facebook, but here are a few of them to
remember the occassion on my blogspot. It was a beautiful wedding!