Little Visitor 15 Gallery - Spring Festivities and Summer Blast

[Mountains and Clouds]

I agree.  That Very Angry Gall Bladder is fantastic!

And I love that picture of Millie with the dogwoods!  It could be a professional headshot!

[Lilibet]

Idlers, nice pictures! What is a speculoos? Those flowers are amazing!



For those wondering, Ellie the blue and green elephant from Belgium (who belongs to Lillibet) arrived and I have already taken her to a great place called "Fairy Park" which was built in 1959 and is Australia's first and longest running theme park. It was built by a German family and they are still running it to this day, we had never heard of it before but saw it on television (they had a big Easter egg hunt and they showed it on the news) and thought it would be good to go. The place was AMAZING!
I will post pictures soon, no point at the moment though as my partner is away and does not have access to internet to see them.

Hit it baby, I am BACK!

Got some stuff to do today, but I'll upload pics as fast as I possibly can. So glad Ellie made it to Australia. I was terrified she'd end up somewhere else, or even stuck in the middle of nowhere.

[michelleandbean]

The gall bladder is hilarious. If I ever have to have anything removed I'm going to do that.

[Smeddley]

Unfortunately, there was a bit of a tragedy at work (I won't go into it, no reason to bring people down, and it wasn't my tragedy), so although Charlie and I went many places this week, none were suitable for pictures.  And I was too frazzled to take pictures of us baking (there will be TONS more of that, though, so no worries!), so no new pictures this week.  But I will post a few I was holding in my back pocket from the weekend before!

Craft day with my friend, and her bird, Bucca!



And Charlie critiquing my progress (I am NOT an artist, I'm doing this because my friend is making me, I totally deserve the criticism!)



(I'm getting deja-vu - I hope I haven't already posted these!  Like I said, a little out of it!)

Tonight we are going to Craft Night, so there will be pictures there!  Hopefully the weather isn't going to be as bad as they think, otherwise we'll have to cut the evening short to come home to be with the puppy-dog (she hates storms!).

[Mountains and Clouds]

Awww that picture with Bucca the bird is so cute!

[Tygermane]

Everyone's pictures are so great!!!  Sorry i haven't been able to post updates lately.  We're insane at work!  We have a new computer system being installed in the hospital and we're the first one to go live with it, so we've got a ton of extra people there and that also means more hours!!  I only had 1 day off this week and I only get 1 day off next week as well.....<sigh> but that means I'll be able to save up for some summer fun

[dewshinesdopp]

Hey Smeddley!  I hope you are doing alright where you are.  My mom lives in the same state you do and she is currently non-communicative

Charlie looks like he is having a blast, and I think your artwork is great!  Much better than I could do...

Dee is joining myself, my son and one of my BFF's for dinner tonight.  Who knows where we will wind up after that. 

[phoenixfiredesigns]

Oh we had fun! We hit both Epcot and Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World today. Just back in about 30 minutes ago. Here's a few photos just to show you some of what we did. I took over 100 today and I haven't had a chance to go through and edit all of them but this is a quick peek.

Epcot

Posing in front of Spaceship Earth. (aka "the giant golf ball")


Showing off his "1st Visit" button in the butterfly garden. (There's a special event called The Flower and Garden festival going on at Epcot so the whole park has flowers everywhere plus a bunch of topiaries and such.)


With Woody and Buzz Lightyear.


With a Viking statue in Norway.


Magic Kingdom

In front of Cinderella Castle.


Mickey ear balloons!


On a ride called the PeopleMover which goes all along Tomorrowland and gives you a great view of the whole area. Space Mountain is in the background.


Posing with a group of penguins from Toy Story 2. ("Wheezy")

Like I said, I took tons but this is just a few since I was excited about our outing. I had a girl yell to me - hey lady! you in the glasses! I LOVE PENGUINS! while we were in line at Haunted Mansion and I was trying to take pics. LOL  It was funny. I told her he was on vacation and it was important to get some good photos of his trip.

Ok, tired!! I think we all need a good night's sleep now.

(You can see larger versions of all these photos plus others so far HERE as well.)

[Mountains and Clouds]

What a fun day for Carlisle!!

[Wildfyre]

We've been so busy I'm way behind in uploading photos   I'm in training for two new jobs  
But Anuenue has still been on a different hike almost every day this week

I'm glad to see Aurora is having a blast. I'm a bit jealous of all the sun and sandy beaches though lol not like the rocky ones we have here.

So the big thing in Sitka every spring is the herring fishery. The commercial fishery is insanely crazy. The subsistence one is much more laid back- the natives here sink hemlock branches before the herring spawn so that the fish can spawn on them, then they go collect the branches to harvest the herring eggs. Here is Anuenue checking out the eggs -



One night we had fresh King Crab, it was really fresh... it was still pinching at us up until seconds before it was cooked!


And just because it's pretty... Anuenue with the welcome to Sitka sign