Our last sumer adventure...

The view from our RV site
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We got back on Sunday from our vacation in the Keys. It was a great time and there was beautiful scenery. We stayed at Bluewater Key RV Resort and it was beautiful. Each site had their own dock and was right on the water. The picture is the view from our site!

We spent a day in the upper keys and fed the giant tarpon at Robbie's Marina and toured the Turtle Hospital. Then we went to Key West and explored that area. We rode the tourist trolley, toured the Ernest Hemingway House, Mel Fisher's Treasure Museum and Truman's Little White House.

And guess what I found in Key West?!?! A real Irish pub!! They even had my favorite English cider, Strongbow!!! Great food and great atmosphere!

I know your all jealous now. Click on the pic to see some more of our tropical break.

Our South Carolina - North Carolina - Tennessee Adventure!

About to ride The Dragon!
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So after my parents picked me up form camp we traveled to Cherokee, NC to check out the Smoky Mountains and the surrounding area. We saw Unto These Hills, the outdoor drama about the Cherokee people. It was great! Also me and my dad rode the motorcycle on the Tail of the Dragon. It is a world famous motorcycle and sports car road. It has 318 turns in 11 miles. What a blast! After that we rode 441 through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, what views! Absolutely gorgeous! Click on the pic for more pictures of Tail of the Dragon and the Smoky Mountains.

Victory Junction Gang

Adam's Race Shop
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a.k.a. the happiest place on Earth! Move over Disney World...you're title has been taken! This truly is a magical place! When kids come here they can be themselves, do anything they want, and forget about their illness. It's a great place and everyone should volunteer here and experience the magic for themselves. I will most definitely be back next summer! Click on the pic for more pictures of the grounds and Kyle Petty (who I totally met!).

Happy Mother's Day

A Glorious Day for a Sail
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This year for Mother's Day we took my mom on the schooner Freedom. She has seen it sail since we moved here and every time she does she says, "I want to do that." So today...we did. It was a great day for a sail and the water was wonderful.

We ate at a little restaurant downtown afterward. It was good food and great service!

Overall a great Mother's Day! Happy Mother's Day to all the wonderful mothers in my life...you know who you are!! Love ya!

P.S. Click on the pic for some views from the boat.

Invisible Children

I found out about Invisible Children a while back at a screening of this very movie at FSU. Three young guys go to Africa and discover a 23-year war in which a rebel leader kidnaps and enslaves young children and makes them fight in his war. They are taken from their homes at night and then forced to kill their friends in order to harden them for war. This is still going on and needs to be stopped! Go forth and be informed!!

Gilmoreisms

It's that time of the day! It's time for Gilmore Girls! For all of you non-Gilmore obsessed people out there who don't know what the heck I'm talking about, I'll explain. Everyday at 11am and 5pm, ABC Family shows an episode of Gilmore Girls. That's right, twice a day, it is truly amazing! I love this time of day. It's my guaranteed relaxation hour. I rarely have class or anything else going on at 5pm so it's perfect! I know that no matter what homework I am working on, at 5pm I can drop it and turn off my brain for an hour! It's my own little reward system.

In honor of this glorious hour, I have gathered some of my favorite Gilmoreisms for your pleasure!

Logan: Rory, you're special.
Rory: Like "stop-eating-the-paste" special?

Rory: What's with the carrots?
Lorelai: I was afraid you weren't eating well at school.
Rory: Ohhh.
Lorelai: Marshmallow?

[At the Yale-Harvard football game]
Lorelai: Oh, wait, are you Pennilyn Lott, my dad's college sweetheart?
Pennilyn Lott: Yes.
Lorelai: You're my almost-mommy.
Pennilyn Lott: Well, I supposed that's one way of putting it...
Lorelai: I'm so glad to finally meet you. Let me ask you something - would you have let me get a pony?

Richard: Focus, please.
Lorelai: I am a camera.

Luke: Get out, Taylor.
Taylor: Why?
Luke: It's just a code I live by.

Taylor: [Luke won't give out free coffee at the dance marathon] You would knock the crutch out from under Tiny Tim, wouldn't you?
Luke: If he asked for a free cup of coffee, Gimpy's goin' down.

Christopher: This town is like one big outpatient mental institution.

Luke: Rory's not here yet.
Lorelai: Then you'll have to entertain me until she arrives. Okay Burger boy, dance.
Luke: Will you marry me?
[Lorelai is taken aback]
Luke: Just looking for something to shut you up.

Luke: Ow.
Lorelai: Luke, are you okay?
Luke: Stupid box. Stupid lamp.
Lorelai: Hey Luke, are you being attacked by your possessions again?

Paris: I could really call you?
Lorelai: Anytime. Anywhere.
Paris: I'm gonna hold you to that.
Lorelai: Okay. It's not a threat, sweetie if someone makes the offer willingly.

Luke: [bringing their plates to the table] Hot plates.
Lorelai: [to Rory] See? He called me 'Hot Plates.' He so likes me.
Luke: [embarrassed] Geez...

Luke: Hey, Kirk, what's with the...?
Kirk: It's not a purse!
Luke: I wasn't going to say "purse". What's with the gay bag?

And the pièce de résistance...

Lorelai: I'm going to make out in the coatroom. Don't eat my chicken.
Rory: That's going on your tombstone.

Go forth and laugh!

What to do....what to do....

I have a dilemma. Not a big one in the grand scheme of things. It's not nearly on the level of say, world hunger or the state of the middle east, but it's my dilemma, my own little dilemma to try to work out. So here goes. Should I get a mac computer? Here's the story.

I knew my computer had been running low on space on the hard drive so I took a little peak at it yesterday. And what did I see, pray tell, but not even a sliver of pink on the wonderful pie graph that Windows so helpfully provides for me. The pink, a hopeful color, represents the amount of space left on my hard drive. I couldn't see this little sliver of hope as it had drowned in a sea of blue, used up space. I was awash in panic. No more room for music, no more room for pictures, no more room for documents! Whatever shall I do? Then the idea came to me, what a perfect excuse to get a mac! I've always wanted one and they are very pretty. And not to mention new, you all know the affinity I have towards new and shiny things. The curiosity took over and it was all downhill from there. So, I let my fingers do the walking and went on over to the apple store website and look what greeted me.


Look at it! Just look at it! Isn't it preeetttyyyy! So cute and fun! I want one! Doesn't everybody?

But then, I saw the price! OMG the price! That's almost all of my savings account. The savings account I have been building since high school. Are you kidding me?!?!

But then the voices start again. It's so pretty. And shiny. And new. And cute.

What to do....what to do.....

Sacrifice almost my entire savings account or just put some memory into my old reliable PC? Join the Apple world or stay in the PC world?

We shall see. Either way, I need more space. How else am I supposed to single handily swindle the music industry out of thousands of dollars a year by illegally downloading music if I have no where to put that music? The world would end as I know it.