Vacation Stories – Page 5 – A Half Hour a Day

The At-Home Contingent of the SGDT Day 1

August 15, 2008kannidubaLeave a comment

As Shrew is travelling the coast from Joisey to Newport, RI, I am home, preparing for Little Girl’s birthday dinner. She turned a whole seven years old today, and we’re having Neighbors over for homemade pizza, cake and ice cream, and a follow-up sleepover for the four biggest kids. My home smells like dough, cake, pizza sauce, Clorox, and the cinnamon candles I’ve been burning all day to mask the “old house” smell that always comes out when it rains. Interesting mix to be sure.

So, since food is a requirement this week, I took a photo of the groceries I bought this morning. 🙂

These bags contain the fixings for three homemade pizzas, cake, ice cream, and the ever necessary popcorn, and float/milkshake fixings for tonight’s sleepover. There are a number of other necessities in there as well, including something called a Santa Claus melon???

More later. Hey Shrew, how was that “lobsta lunch?!”

Two Heads are Better than One

August 5, 2008kanniduba3 Comments

My niece and Mister Baby Boy, in one of those rare moments where they were both sitting down at the same time. Ahhh, the power of snack cups filled with Lucky Charms cereal!

Ocean Sunrises

August 4, 2008kannidubaLeave a comment

There is nothing like watching the sunrise over the ocean. This shot captured the colors in the sky that morning perfectly, but unfortunately, I didn’t capture the red sun. The sun was literally red…a deep maroonish red. I’ve never seen anything like it. When I changed camera settings, the entire sky and ocean looked red, but the sun still did not. So, I like this photo the best of all since it comes the closest to what I saw. There are more over on flickr if you want to check them out.

Here’s another from a different morning.

Talons

August 4, 2008kanniduba6 Comments

So, I was on the top deck, taking some early morning photos midweek. This very large “seagull” comes flying my way…an “odd” looking seagull. Looked like it had something hanging underneath it, but I couldn’t really see it clearly. I started snapping away. This is what I captured!

Cool, eh?

Ocean Storm

August 3, 2008kanniduba3 Comments

This has been the summer of powerful, yet beautiful storms, and I have never seen a storm roll in the way this one did on Sunday at our beach house in Ocean City, New Jersey. With the first rumbles of thunder, we packed up all the stuff we had lugged down to the beach. Luckily we did, because within an hour, the bubbling clouds began moving toward the shore from behind us. For the longest time nothing happened, and I was able to shoot these photos from our front deck. When it finally came, it came with a vengeance…the sky grew dark, and the lightning flashed from sky to ocean, thunder booming from the center of the Earth. It lasted for hours, hailing at times, yet we felt quite safe in the house, watching the storm from our windows. I think without trees around to judge the wind speed, it seemed a bit less threatening than the storms at home do. Fortunately that was the last of the bad weather, and the rest of the week was wonderful, with cooperative skies and beautiful sunrises and sunsets. What a show.