Ed is home: Time for some pictures.

I’m just going to highlight a couple pictures.. I took over 100 of them, but here are half a dozen exceptional ones.

We started our trip by driving down to Florida to fly out of Miami. (The tickets where significantly cheaper from there as apposed to Augusta) So on the way down, we had to stop to see Kennedy space center. We got to the KSC an hour early, (we had 8 hours to get to Miami~4 hours away)

They open at 10am.. that’s OK, we will wait. The kids donned some skates and had some fun skating in the very empty and very large parking lot.

About a half hour in, I said to myself.. ” um, how much are the admission tickets anyway?” So I walked up to the gate.. 44$ for kids, 55$ for adults?? Are they crazy? I guess if I was going to go there all day, but not a chance for a hour or two. So we went to search for some freebies. We found this Mercury Redstone rocket in a NASA office parking lot down the road.

OK, so we got through the airports, OntoSt Croix, and eventually, to the beach! (OK, I know I skipped a bunch of steps.. sue me)

I thought this nannyrama was pretty cool. Hannah is on the right.

one of the sights we visited was at the Eastern most point of the Island, and technically, within a mile or two of the easternmost point of US property… I gotta say, this was cool. the Easternmost antenna of the VLBA!

We got a little closer, and I got Hannah in the picture.

Then, on the last day, we went to a Boxing Day celebration at a camp on the west coast in the rain forest. On the way there, no big deal, we just came across a 10 foot long, 200 pound Boa Constrictor.

We finally got to the camp. Its actually owned by a neighbor of kath and the kids. Here is the food line.

At that camp, they had a cool turtle sanctuary. Are my kids afraid of nature? I don’t think so.

I will load more later. Glad to be back. I will miss the kids, but I think the adventure will be worth it for them.

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Posted on 27 December '11 by , under Activities, Holidays, vacation.

2 Comments to “Ed is home: Time for some pictures.”

#1 Posted by kathi (28.12.11 at 19:03 )

OK, explain that the snake is someones pet. There are actually no snakes on the island. That is a whole other story. There are no snakes because there are too many rats and mongooses.There are,however, centiepedes 5 to 10 inches long, venemous and painful bite but not fatal. The worst creepy crawly on the island.

#2 Posted by Teri (06.01.12 at 06:21 )

thanks for that..wendy told me to check out the blog because the kids found a snake on the side of the road and picked it up…I was thinking you and Ed had lost your minds letting them..I have to say as far as snakes go that is a cute one..