Sunday, August 12, 2007

gone again





jim is back in the states again. i am missing him so much this time, and thinking about him with our granddaughter, the love of our lives! i am so excited to see her in the fall. so i thought i would post some fun pictures of all of us together in italy. some of these photos are courtesy of amymattingly.blogspot.com.

Sunday, August 5, 2007

sharm el sheikh, egypt









this shows a little of my life, or actually what i live for. the big doggy, wow!, he walked side by side with his master, strolling down the main street ( a mini vegas strip), showing everyone how cool he was. just like vegas, sharm el sheikh rises up from the middle of the desert, gathering all it's buildings side by side, and then dies away, leaving a landscape resembling the moon. my goal was to dive in the number one spot in the world, the red sea. it is to divers what mount everest is to climbers. after diving i see why. the fish were everywhere, masses of them, swimming fearlessly to our masks, nibbling on our ears and hanging out, knowing they were the stars of the show. while the diving is a bit more intense than what i had done previously it rewarded with incredible fish, and coral walls. of course, no one can take a trip to egypt without a camel ride, skip that when you visit believe me!!!! riding a camel is the equivalent of having two of your male friends carry two, two by fours, you sitting on them bare butt, and then violently, in a drunken stupor they try to carry you over rugged terrain. sounds like fun right?! we did get the photos of the three of us, (one of our friends from lucca went with us) and that is what we really wanted. the great news was that 2,500 miles from home and kfc was there (as was tgi fridays, hard rock cafe, starbucks, and pizza hut) the bad news was i think i know what camel taste like now....