Well it's Thursday and I'm finishing up work while the girls continue to play.
They are headed here today http://www.venetianpool.com/VenetianPoolHome.html
Life is so unfair.
We'll head to Florida panhandle tonight and tomorrow morning and hopefully get in early enough to play on the beach and bike around town.
BTW, Morgan is not doing her work out. While she's been in the water constantly, it's not been doing her workout. Be sure to pass this information along to Joe!
She also hasn't been doing any Science, Language, History....
But lots of good field trips!
I'm on vacation until 4/10 so I'm not sure how many new posts there will be until then, but we'll have lots to tell when we get back on line.
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
What I did today
Today we went to the beach. I had to wear a T-shirt since I could probobly be in the North pole at night and still get sunburnt!It is very aggravating.Normally It's not this bad but on sunday our horde went to St.Augistine for the day and we had to put sticker's on to get into a living history muesem.I put mine on my cheek.Then I wore it around for about an hour and then ripped it off. I think it tore a layer of my skin off with it. Now, my face gets sunburned very easily in that spot. I am a splotchy red stawberry. That's about it.
tatum
tatum
Sunny and Fried
Well, today was an outside day. We went to breakfast, my favorit part of the day, and then we swam in the pool. Around noon we headed to the beach, finding it fairly easily considering we were driving the RV. We could only stay there about three hours 'cause Tatum was already sunburnt and she would have shriveled up if we stayed any longer.
The other day, when we were on a tour in St. Augustine, they gave us stickers to show that we were part of the tour. Tatum was stupid enough to slap it on her cheek and leave it there. A couple hours later, she decided to rip it of, and she did, fairly quickly. Her cheek had a pink square on it from the sticker and it's still on there four days later! We figured she when she pulled the sticker of she also pulled the first layer of skin off. Then, the skin got burnt fairly quickly, so now my embarrising sister is running around with a bright pink square on her right cheek. Her fault not mine.
Of course, today at the beach I got fried, as I always do. My shoulders and neck are bright red and I swear the next time they get burnt they'll fall of.
Nothing more exiting happened today it was a pretty calm day. OH, the toaster in the lobby DID catch on fire today at breakfast. THAT WAS COOL!We were so flippin worried that the sprinkilers would go off. That would have been awsome.
CUl8r,
morgan
P.S. PLEASE COMMENT! If you don't I will be awfully lonely.After all, I only got five other people in my family.
The other day, when we were on a tour in St. Augustine, they gave us stickers to show that we were part of the tour. Tatum was stupid enough to slap it on her cheek and leave it there. A couple hours later, she decided to rip it of, and she did, fairly quickly. Her cheek had a pink square on it from the sticker and it's still on there four days later! We figured she when she pulled the sticker of she also pulled the first layer of skin off. Then, the skin got burnt fairly quickly, so now my embarrising sister is running around with a bright pink square on her right cheek. Her fault not mine.
Of course, today at the beach I got fried, as I always do. My shoulders and neck are bright red and I swear the next time they get burnt they'll fall of.
Nothing more exiting happened today it was a pretty calm day. OH, the toaster in the lobby DID catch on fire today at breakfast. THAT WAS COOL!We were so flippin worried that the sprinkilers would go off. That would have been awsome.
CUl8r,
morgan
P.S. PLEASE COMMENT! If you don't I will be awfully lonely.After all, I only got five other people in my family.
Dogs vs. Cats
What a great day! I got a buttload of things to tell you about so perk up those ears, eyes in this case, assuming your reading this, and listen up.
We finally got to Miami, my mom’s blog yesterday probably told ya that. I didn’t read it so I’m gonna ignore what she said and tell ya myself. We mainly lazed around the pool (yes, for all u swim people, I did my work out that Joe graciously bestowed upon me-well, part of it, then some kids came and being the nice, considerate person I am I quit ‘cause I didn’t wanna splash ‘em) and then ate dinner and went to the River walk for about fifteen minutes till all of us got tired and went back to the hotel.
Ok, now for today, we woke up honking early today to join my dad for breakfast (remember, he has to work while we play), and then played in the pool till about 11:45. We borrowed the rental car from my dad, who picked us up on his lunch break to give us the car, and headed to Gumbo Limbo Nature Park. Don’tcha love saying Gumbo Limbo? It’s so fun, gumbo-limbo, gumbo-limbo, gumbo-limbo. Ok, back to subject. Anyhoo, never trust two blonde’s to find a Nature Park they have never been to, or anyplace they have never been to for that matter. Of course, my mom and I got lost, but this time IT WASN’T OUR FAULT! The recent hurricanes have blown down all the street signs so how in the heck do you expect us to find this place when we don’t even know what the dang street name is? Huh? Yea, that’s what I thought.
Gumbo Limbo was really neat. We saw sharks (I thought of you swim people), puffer fish, barracudas (again of you swim people), some mahusive sea turtles, some tiny sea turtles, some sea urchins (I touched one of those guys, there awesome), conch, eels, crabs, shrimp, rays, sea rays (no rays and sea rays are totally different organisms, I couldn’t tell the difference but that’s what the workers said) and a lobster that was about half as big as my leg! No, I’m not exaggerating, as I tend to do! But I totally thought of Joe (swim coach) when I saw it (he loves lobsta’). Luckily, because we were late, we got to see all these creatures fed. And the best thing was, that the tanks weren’t behind glass. It was mainly just a shallow pool filled with salt water and animals, so I was literally inches away from a shark. It was awesome.
All these sea animals were making me hungry and so as soon as my padre got off work we headed down to Lorelei. Lorelei is my favorite restaurant in the whole world, most of my family members agree. We haven’t been there in two years. Just imagine, a seaside restaurant where there’s a beautiful sunset, stray cats roaming around, live music, great food, and you can bring your dog! Lorelei is located on Key Islamorado. We are residing in Ft. Lauderdale, so the drive was two hours down, but it was worth it. The only drawback was that we dragged Muffin all the way down to the restaurant and then found out that they didn’t’ allow dogs anymore! Apparently, one of the dogs decided to chase one of the cats and kill it. So, they banned the dogs. Thanks for telling us that! Who cares about the cat’s (gotcha that time becky!)? I want my puppy!
Anyway, we ordered a bunch of seafood to all share, including conch fritters (mmm), crab, chicken wings, quesadillas, cheese sticks, shrimp, and lots of other seafood that I forget. Imagine that! Then, to wash down all that food, we finished it of with key lime pie. Loooovvveee itttt!
Now were driving back to the hotel after a very long day. Tomorrow we plan to go to the beach. We were going to go to the Everglades but we aren’t going to this trip. Kinda disappointing ‘cause I really wanted to see some gators!
CUL8r,
Morgan :p
We finally got to Miami, my mom’s blog yesterday probably told ya that. I didn’t read it so I’m gonna ignore what she said and tell ya myself. We mainly lazed around the pool (yes, for all u swim people, I did my work out that Joe graciously bestowed upon me-well, part of it, then some kids came and being the nice, considerate person I am I quit ‘cause I didn’t wanna splash ‘em) and then ate dinner and went to the River walk for about fifteen minutes till all of us got tired and went back to the hotel.
Ok, now for today, we woke up honking early today to join my dad for breakfast (remember, he has to work while we play), and then played in the pool till about 11:45. We borrowed the rental car from my dad, who picked us up on his lunch break to give us the car, and headed to Gumbo Limbo Nature Park. Don’tcha love saying Gumbo Limbo? It’s so fun, gumbo-limbo, gumbo-limbo, gumbo-limbo. Ok, back to subject. Anyhoo, never trust two blonde’s to find a Nature Park they have never been to, or anyplace they have never been to for that matter. Of course, my mom and I got lost, but this time IT WASN’T OUR FAULT! The recent hurricanes have blown down all the street signs so how in the heck do you expect us to find this place when we don’t even know what the dang street name is? Huh? Yea, that’s what I thought.
Gumbo Limbo was really neat. We saw sharks (I thought of you swim people), puffer fish, barracudas (again of you swim people), some mahusive sea turtles, some tiny sea turtles, some sea urchins (I touched one of those guys, there awesome), conch, eels, crabs, shrimp, rays, sea rays (no rays and sea rays are totally different organisms, I couldn’t tell the difference but that’s what the workers said) and a lobster that was about half as big as my leg! No, I’m not exaggerating, as I tend to do! But I totally thought of Joe (swim coach) when I saw it (he loves lobsta’). Luckily, because we were late, we got to see all these creatures fed. And the best thing was, that the tanks weren’t behind glass. It was mainly just a shallow pool filled with salt water and animals, so I was literally inches away from a shark. It was awesome.
All these sea animals were making me hungry and so as soon as my padre got off work we headed down to Lorelei. Lorelei is my favorite restaurant in the whole world, most of my family members agree. We haven’t been there in two years. Just imagine, a seaside restaurant where there’s a beautiful sunset, stray cats roaming around, live music, great food, and you can bring your dog! Lorelei is located on Key Islamorado. We are residing in Ft. Lauderdale, so the drive was two hours down, but it was worth it. The only drawback was that we dragged Muffin all the way down to the restaurant and then found out that they didn’t’ allow dogs anymore! Apparently, one of the dogs decided to chase one of the cats and kill it. So, they banned the dogs. Thanks for telling us that! Who cares about the cat’s (gotcha that time becky!)? I want my puppy!
Anyway, we ordered a bunch of seafood to all share, including conch fritters (mmm), crab, chicken wings, quesadillas, cheese sticks, shrimp, and lots of other seafood that I forget. Imagine that! Then, to wash down all that food, we finished it of with key lime pie. Loooovvveee itttt!
Now were driving back to the hotel after a very long day. Tomorrow we plan to go to the beach. We were going to go to the Everglades but we aren’t going to this trip. Kinda disappointing ‘cause I really wanted to see some gators!
CUL8r,
Morgan :p
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Weather is here, wish you were beautiful..
The week is shaping up nicely in the 70s with lots of sun. The girls have only left the pool to eat, which is an amazing thing to watch.
Since we aren't driving quite enough, we plan to drive 100 miles to dinner tonight at Lor-e-lie's, our favorite restaurant. Hope we make it for sunset.
http://keysdining.com/lorelei/
Scroll down, I updated the itinerary post with a map.
Monday, March 27, 2006
Travelin' Mom
We finally arrived at the hotel. A quiet day was needed for the Ellis chicks. So for the most part, we lounged in the pool. Tatum put on her own sunscreen. Big mistake. She is pretty splotchy. That kid could get burnt walking in the moonlight.
So far, lots of laughter and lots of grace. God is good.
So far, lots of laughter and lots of grace. God is good.
26, March 2006
Friday, 10:40 pm
Well, we finally hit the road at around 5:30 Friday night, beating our all time record! We had to turn back once ‘cause my dad forgot all the money (we ended up finding it in the recycle bin, imagine that!) and my iPod mysteriously deleted all my songs, so of course, we had to turn back to burn my songs back on. For those of you who know me well, I can’t live without my country music.
So far I’ve experienced cold showers in thirty-seconds flat, trying to find something to eat because we forgot the can opener (a lot of our food is canned, for example, how in the heck to you make a dang quesadilla without any beans?) and 60 degree weather and rapidly warming to the mid 70’s by Tuesday. Aren’t you jealous? C’mon, admit it, I KNOW you are!
Anyhoo, after two days of almost continuous driving, we finally stopped in St. Augustine, Florida. We started at a museum in the Visitors Center first, and then the Spanish Quarter, which was kinda like Connor Prairie, if you’ve ever been there. We talked to the carpenter, the herboligist, and some other guy who kept sewing on buttons, all I know was that he portraying a man from a long, long, time ago who worked in the military.
By that time, we were all starving, and we had eaten all the food my mom packed for Katty. So, after my dad ran back to the RV to get some sweatshirts (there was a cool breeze coming in), we went to the Seafood festival, my favorite part of the day. Lol. We bought a bunch of stuff including Crab (that was really good), Shrimp, Alligator (yes, it doesn’t sound to great but it’s not bad at all, a little chewy, but awesome) Fish and who knows what else that was on the plate.
After stuffing our pie holes full with delicious, innocent sea beings, we took a walk over to the Fort that used to guard the city. We wandered around there till about 3:30, when they were going to shoot a cannon off. My family has seen demonstrations like this before but we decided to go ahead and stay for the show. The people who were firing it were yelling in Spanish (since it used to be a Spanish colony) and you couldn’t make out a word they were saying. We could barely hear them anyway because we were too far away.
Right at this very moment, we are in Ft. Lauderdale, very close to the hotel but we seem to be stuck in a very, very, very slow traffic jam. So I’m just gonna sit here and type to all y’all out there cause I have nothing else to do ‘cept my science test and I’d like to put that off as long as possible.
I gotta go now, we’re almost at the hotel and that means unloading all our clothes, and anything else we might need (I’m thinking food). So, you’re probably all waiting for me to sign off so you can comment this wonderful, amazing post (you better comment) so I’ll let you go. Please comment, I need to know somebody pays attention to me out there and doesn’t leave me in traffic jams with only a laptop to talk to. If you do, you are just plain cruel and hard hearted. I have to go, my invisible friend Pinkie Gladys Gutzman is calling me. I’M COMING PINKY!
Cul8r, Morgan (dang it pinky I’m coming!)
Friday, 10:40 pm
Well, we finally hit the road at around 5:30 Friday night, beating our all time record! We had to turn back once ‘cause my dad forgot all the money (we ended up finding it in the recycle bin, imagine that!) and my iPod mysteriously deleted all my songs, so of course, we had to turn back to burn my songs back on. For those of you who know me well, I can’t live without my country music.
So far I’ve experienced cold showers in thirty-seconds flat, trying to find something to eat because we forgot the can opener (a lot of our food is canned, for example, how in the heck to you make a dang quesadilla without any beans?) and 60 degree weather and rapidly warming to the mid 70’s by Tuesday. Aren’t you jealous? C’mon, admit it, I KNOW you are!
Anyhoo, after two days of almost continuous driving, we finally stopped in St. Augustine, Florida. We started at a museum in the Visitors Center first, and then the Spanish Quarter, which was kinda like Connor Prairie, if you’ve ever been there. We talked to the carpenter, the herboligist, and some other guy who kept sewing on buttons, all I know was that he portraying a man from a long, long, time ago who worked in the military.
By that time, we were all starving, and we had eaten all the food my mom packed for Katty. So, after my dad ran back to the RV to get some sweatshirts (there was a cool breeze coming in), we went to the Seafood festival, my favorite part of the day. Lol. We bought a bunch of stuff including Crab (that was really good), Shrimp, Alligator (yes, it doesn’t sound to great but it’s not bad at all, a little chewy, but awesome) Fish and who knows what else that was on the plate.
After stuffing our pie holes full with delicious, innocent sea beings, we took a walk over to the Fort that used to guard the city. We wandered around there till about 3:30, when they were going to shoot a cannon off. My family has seen demonstrations like this before but we decided to go ahead and stay for the show. The people who were firing it were yelling in Spanish (since it used to be a Spanish colony) and you couldn’t make out a word they were saying. We could barely hear them anyway because we were too far away.
Right at this very moment, we are in Ft. Lauderdale, very close to the hotel but we seem to be stuck in a very, very, very slow traffic jam. So I’m just gonna sit here and type to all y’all out there cause I have nothing else to do ‘cept my science test and I’d like to put that off as long as possible.
I gotta go now, we’re almost at the hotel and that means unloading all our clothes, and anything else we might need (I’m thinking food). So, you’re probably all waiting for me to sign off so you can comment this wonderful, amazing post (you better comment) so I’ll let you go. Please comment, I need to know somebody pays attention to me out there and doesn’t leave me in traffic jams with only a laptop to talk to. If you do, you are just plain cruel and hard hearted. I have to go, my invisible friend Pinkie Gladys Gutzman is calling me. I’M COMING PINKY!
Cul8r, Morgan (dang it pinky I’m coming!)
Thursday, March 23, 2006
Here's the plan: Dates corrected!
Well, the thermostat is replaced, we pick it up tonight and we'll finish loading it up.
We hope to be completely loaded tonight so we can take off after work tomorrow. Of course, that's always the plan and after we run back into the house a dozen times and drive around the block once or twice, it's usually 7PM before we get on the road. After going through all of this, we'll be ready to pull over and sleep after about 2 hours.
Here's the rough itinerary, we'll see how it pans out.
3/24 - 3/25 Drive to St. Augustine FL
3/26 Spend the day poking around St. Augustine then drive down to Ft. Lauderdale Sunday night.
3/27 - 3/30 I work in Ft. Lauderdale while the girls play.
3/31 - 4/9 Drive from Ft. Lauderdale to Costa Mesa California, along the way we plan to make stops at:
- Seaside Florida to play in the Gulf
- Johnson Space Center in Houston
- A mission, the Mercado and of course Rudy's in San Antonio
- Long drive across West Texas
- Carlsbad Cavern
- Sitting Bull Falls
- Rockhound State Park
- saguaro
- Biosphere
- Tucson
- Visit the Lang's in phoenix
4/9 - 4/21 Costa Mesa California; I'm working; they're playing
- One day at Disneyland
- Easter at Saddleback
4/21 - 4/29 The way home, not quite sure, buy Hey!, we have a few weeks to figure this out.
- Hoover Dam
- Bryce Canyon
- Coral Reef
- Canyon Lands
- Arches
- Visit Lisa's Greg & Kathy near Denver
If we only had an extra week....
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Brrr
We'll we've had our first set back and we haven't even started! In the mists of trying to get everything loaded, work finished, and good-byes said, the blower on the furnace quit.
So, given Lisa's dislike of the cold, I had to find some place to take it in for service and hopefully get it fixed and back ASAP so that we can finish up and get out of here.
Of course there is always the chance it will require a part that must be ordered. Does anyone have some spare blankets we can borrow?
So, given Lisa's dislike of the cold, I had to find some place to take it in for service and hopefully get it fixed and back ASAP so that we can finish up and get out of here.
Of course there is always the chance it will require a part that must be ordered. Does anyone have some spare blankets we can borrow?
Sunday, March 19, 2006
Still Packing....
We'll here's our first test entry.
We're getting things packed up and I'm trying to figure out how to pack clothes for 3 weeks of business, 2 weeks of vacation that will include ocean, mountains, cities, and who knows what kind of weather.
Katty is walking around with dog treats stuffed in her hat and shoes and muffin is being very friendly.
Oops, I think I left the water running while I was trying to figure out how to create a blog, so the tank is probably over flowing into the street!
Gotta go!
Terry
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