We are the mundane
It was 6 degs yesterday morning when I snapped this shot of our hotel. What was I thinking….. Montreal in Feb?!
But we’ve had a great time. Just cool to hang with the kids in a foreign land. They both tried snails one night, Charlotte actually ate it.
We’re on the train home now. A long ride, but kind of an adventure in itself. really beautiful, especially along Lake Champlain.
We had our annual Santa bar crawl last night. While I didn’t make an official tally, I’d say we probably topped 100 people on the tour. We had an absolute blast. This was our seventh one and it’s really taken off these last couple of years.
Here’s a bunch of photos from the evening.
The Wall St Journal digital edition did a story about the folks that go to see the Macy’s floats being inflated. Lisman has a couple soundbites, the only bites, and the kids are in the shot.
We’re off to visit Shannon for a few days, then Martha’s Vineyard and Newport, RI. I’ll post some pictures when we return.
Here are a few pictures of our week in Orlando. Weather was hot but beautiful! The kids had a blast…Blake said his favorite part was his nightly trip to the ice cream shop at the resort with MarMar!
with the exception of Shannon…she already had plans to go to Sarasota. We leave tomorrow morning and return on Mother’s Day. We’ll take plenty of pictures and unlike Steve F. will post them when we return.
Hope you’re having a great day! Where’s the birthday banner?
Not us, we’re drinking rum. No, at the Dominiom Club in St. Croix’s rainforest, today we had the highlight of our trip so far. We bought a couple beers for a couple big pigs.
If you checked out my previous post on New Year’s Eve, you’ll see that my attempt to do live video streaming didn’t work so well.
I was able to capture some halfway decent videos on my photo camera though. Here’s some of the videos I got at a couple of the bars I was in.
First some JR and Natalie videos from the Cafe 210. The videos are a little jumpy because I was zoomed in to try to prevent the lights from behind the band from overwhelming the camera sensors. For the most part I succeeded.
Van Morrison’s “Wild Nights”.
Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline”
Tom Petty’s “Free Falling” — kind of funny because Natalie grabbed the camera out of my hands and briefly turned it around on me.
Roberta Flack (and the Fugees) “Killing Me Softly”
JR and Natalie ended their last set at 1:30 and Natalie (and I) rushed over to the Phyrst before they gave their 2:00 am last call. At the Phyrst, Natalie did a couple of songs with Maxwell Strait (she’s been filling in as the lead singer with them because their normal lead, Molly Countermine, has been out having her third child). Molly, Natalie, and the third woman on stage, Kate Twoey, also perform together as a trio called Pure Cane Sugar.
Aretha Franklin’s Chain of Fools
Crosby, Stills, and Nash’s “Four Dead in Ohio”
Needless to say – I’m having fun with my new camera.
Thought I’d try this live stream thing again. This time I’ll capture some video from the First Night State College New Year’s Eve Celebration. I’ll wrestle with some of the dame dim lighting in the bar challenges that I had the last time but we’ll give it a whirl anyway.
Hopefully my videos will appear below (once I start recording that is – I see the old Santa Crawl ones are there now).