I’ve been waiting a long time to say that. Today my visit to the island clock went to 99 days and counting! Woo Hoo!! I booked our trip 13 months out so this feels like a looong time coming. The bride and I are all set for rooms, air and car rental. We have discussed a few activities. Have friends that are going that we will hang out with for part of our stay. They are a bit behind us as for planning. Have their room but no flights. The flights will happen soon enough.
This will be a fun outing. We plan to dive one day while there. Am thinking that I would like to dive off of Anguilla instead of ST Maarten. One of our friends is a diver but the other isn’t. He laughs and realizes that it is pretty likely that he will be taking a resort class while there so he can go with us.
Weather here at home is crazy…spent 3 days in the 60’s and today is 35. Makes me really want to get to the island beaches as soon as we can.
I am toying with a new logo for my site and then with having the logo stitched onto a few hats/visors and shirts. Might as well wear stuff with my label on it instead of someone elses. Once I have the logo done I will post it here. We did run a first shot at a logo…on an earlier post but would be too hard to shrink down to hat sized and would lose its detail so am giving it another try….
All for now!
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Friday, January 4, 2008
Trash that Dress!!
I learned of an interesting concept recently. Ladies, what do you do with that wedding dress after your big day? Clean it, box it up and hope some day you may have a daughter that would love to wear it…. I learned on Travel Talk of a couple that took the wedding dress to ST Maarten with them and “trashed” it while with a photographer on the island.
No not as in torn up but more like some fantastic pictures that have to be just about as memorable as the wedding pix themselves…. Click on this link to view http://www.photoshow.com/watch/az3vE3CQ
I am trying to talk my beautiful bride of soon to be 25 years into doing the same sort of thing for our anniversary. Think it would be a lot of fun but not so sure that she will consider it. We do have kids but both are boys so the idea of passing on to your kids is out. Yes she could still fit into the dress but am sure she is thinking of the burden of getting the dress to the island. We are as you well know if you have read previous posts….carry on only people.
Guess I will have to work on her a bit but anyway enjoy the link as the pix are great and the couple looks like they were having the time of their lives..
No not as in torn up but more like some fantastic pictures that have to be just about as memorable as the wedding pix themselves…. Click on this link to view http://www.photoshow.com/watch/az3vE3CQ
I am trying to talk my beautiful bride of soon to be 25 years into doing the same sort of thing for our anniversary. Think it would be a lot of fun but not so sure that she will consider it. We do have kids but both are boys so the idea of passing on to your kids is out. Yes she could still fit into the dress but am sure she is thinking of the burden of getting the dress to the island. We are as you well know if you have read previous posts….carry on only people.
Guess I will have to work on her a bit but anyway enjoy the link as the pix are great and the couple looks like they were having the time of their lives..
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Merry New Year!!
Yes I know it is Happy New Year but that is one of the lines that sticks in my head from the movie Trading Places with Dan Akroyd and Eddie Murphy.
It has been a while since I have posted. We survived the holidays and it’s travels and come out the other side to a new year. Rob is excited about this year, we will travel in April to the islands and now that we have passed the holiday my child bride (cb) is starting to think of things that she would like to do while in the islands. She wants to eat in Grand Case, go to Pinel island and dive while in Anguilla. I saw a posting about women wearing their wedding dresses and having a photo shoot with them on at the beach, riding horses and the likes. I thought it was a pretty cool idea. We have been married for almost 25 years and I would bet that my cb could still fit into her wedding dress. It has been in a box for that entire time except for when it was cleaned after our wedding. We have no girls to hand the dress down to so I thought it might be a cool idea to take the dress with us and do a photo shoot with her in it…. Her response…we are traveling light, I don’t want to lug that thing all the way there. I told her we should mail it to a friend on the island and do the shoot. Don’t think she will go for it but who knows.
Am thinking for last scene, a snorkel or dive outing. Envision scene of Elizabeth’s dress from Pirates of the Caribbean II. Oh well we can discuss further.
I found a couple of cool spots on www.googleearth.com one is in Anguilla where there is a large boat that was washed ashore I am sure during a storm and there is another place just off of Orient Beach on ST Martin with a sailboat that was wrecked. We will visit both to shoot some nice pix. Now have to get cb to agree to pose.
Like probably half of America, we have started our diets for the year. Is going to be a hard one for me but I want to lose probably 20lbs before we go to the islands. Don’t want folks rolling me back into the water because I look like a beached whale. Ok, it isn’t that bad but I am more than a bit over weight and could lose a bunch of weight for health reasons as well as to look better for cb while on island
Again Happy New Year!
It has been a while since I have posted. We survived the holidays and it’s travels and come out the other side to a new year. Rob is excited about this year, we will travel in April to the islands and now that we have passed the holiday my child bride (cb) is starting to think of things that she would like to do while in the islands. She wants to eat in Grand Case, go to Pinel island and dive while in Anguilla. I saw a posting about women wearing their wedding dresses and having a photo shoot with them on at the beach, riding horses and the likes. I thought it was a pretty cool idea. We have been married for almost 25 years and I would bet that my cb could still fit into her wedding dress. It has been in a box for that entire time except for when it was cleaned after our wedding. We have no girls to hand the dress down to so I thought it might be a cool idea to take the dress with us and do a photo shoot with her in it…. Her response…we are traveling light, I don’t want to lug that thing all the way there. I told her we should mail it to a friend on the island and do the shoot. Don’t think she will go for it but who knows.
Am thinking for last scene, a snorkel or dive outing. Envision scene of Elizabeth’s dress from Pirates of the Caribbean II. Oh well we can discuss further.
I found a couple of cool spots on www.googleearth.com one is in Anguilla where there is a large boat that was washed ashore I am sure during a storm and there is another place just off of Orient Beach on ST Martin with a sailboat that was wrecked. We will visit both to shoot some nice pix. Now have to get cb to agree to pose.
Like probably half of America, we have started our diets for the year. Is going to be a hard one for me but I want to lose probably 20lbs before we go to the islands. Don’t want folks rolling me back into the water because I look like a beached whale. Ok, it isn’t that bad but I am more than a bit over weight and could lose a bunch of weight for health reasons as well as to look better for cb while on island
Again Happy New Year!
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
American Air’s magical moving flight schedule
We have heard that the major airlines have been asked to cut back, change their schedules and do what ever it takes to make flights more timely. Woo hoo! Glad to hear it! Way to go….hey wait a minute this is going to affect me, I’m not so sure about this.
We have flights booked to ST Maarten for mid April. We will travel from KC to Dallas with an overnight stay and then on to Miami and ST Maarten the next day. Our flight from MCI to DFW has been changed twice! Is all ok but a bit crazy. Flight was changed within a week of us booking from a 5PM to 7PM flight. This was ok but did get us into Dallas a bit late. Going to meet a friend so meant Rob wasn’t planning much sleep. This week that flight was changed back to 5PM flight. This is better for Rob but as long as there is a seat and they are relatively on time…I’ll be a good sport about this and just call it all good! Funny thing is I have looked on AA’s site for seating and both planes are pretty much empty for the flights that are scheduled. KC to Dallas has lots of business commuters so I am sure the flights will fill up, I just find this moving schedule to be at this point a bit humorous. I will however say that if they mess with my flights to Miami and on to SXM I will be more than a bit agitated. We have to take a cab from the flight landing at PJIA to Marigot and on to the Ferry to AXA then another cab….hoping to be checked in before 5PM really don’t want this part of the plan to fall thru. Guess we shall see!!!
Nuff said....In case I am not back on line before the holiday Merry Christmas to all.
We have flights booked to ST Maarten for mid April. We will travel from KC to Dallas with an overnight stay and then on to Miami and ST Maarten the next day. Our flight from MCI to DFW has been changed twice! Is all ok but a bit crazy. Flight was changed within a week of us booking from a 5PM to 7PM flight. This was ok but did get us into Dallas a bit late. Going to meet a friend so meant Rob wasn’t planning much sleep. This week that flight was changed back to 5PM flight. This is better for Rob but as long as there is a seat and they are relatively on time…I’ll be a good sport about this and just call it all good! Funny thing is I have looked on AA’s site for seating and both planes are pretty much empty for the flights that are scheduled. KC to Dallas has lots of business commuters so I am sure the flights will fill up, I just find this moving schedule to be at this point a bit humorous. I will however say that if they mess with my flights to Miami and on to SXM I will be more than a bit agitated. We have to take a cab from the flight landing at PJIA to Marigot and on to the Ferry to AXA then another cab….hoping to be checked in before 5PM really don’t want this part of the plan to fall thru. Guess we shall see!!!
Nuff said....In case I am not back on line before the holiday Merry Christmas to all.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
The Iceman cometh……
Got the first snow out of the way here in KC now we got an ice storm to add to the list. Best part is that I have a new camera to play with. The ice storm struck over several days but the temp remained around 32 degrees so the roads did not freeze over. Makes for some fun pix. I even brought the camera to work today and walked around our area shooting scenes of the ice. Is a lot of fun and cant wait to get back home to mess with the pix.
While it is cold here I have my mind on SXM a mere 18 weeks away. We have everything taken care of and only thing left to pay is for the rental car, food and activities. There wont be too many activities that cost too much. We will rent a car on Anguilla for a day and we plan on going to Pinel island as well as Green Key…. May get a photographer on island to take a few shots of us but we will see that part depends on me losing some weight and I have done nothing but eat so there may not be any photographic evidence of me being there except for the pix I turn out!
While it is cold here I have my mind on SXM a mere 18 weeks away. We have everything taken care of and only thing left to pay is for the rental car, food and activities. There wont be too many activities that cost too much. We will rent a car on Anguilla for a day and we plan on going to Pinel island as well as Green Key…. May get a photographer on island to take a few shots of us but we will see that part depends on me losing some weight and I have done nothing but eat so there may not be any photographic evidence of me being there except for the pix I turn out!
Friday, December 7, 2007
Winter had to happen one day!!!
Damn!, we got our first real snow of the season yesterday. I am over winter now!!!
We are expecting ice this weekend too. Yuck! Did I say that I am definitely over winter now? Well I am. Contacted a friend in ST Maarten today and asked if there was room cause I was catching a plane down. Ok was joking with her but one snow and I am…oh yeah….said that already. With the ice that we are supposed to get I should get some nice photos, at least I hope so! Here is to KC not losing power this weekend once the storms hit. And about that winter thing....I realy am over it. Come on Spring!!
Today's good news is I did procure a second room for the week so my buddy John and a lucky friend as of yet to be named will be joining us on island for part of our trip. We traveled with him on another trip to the islands and had a good time. Actually too good of a time and he and I acted like a couple of college freshman on spring break. That wont be happening again this time but we will have fun. We have both since decided that we are interested in photography so our next trip will yield lots of photos.
My dream is to make a coffee table book of photos of ST Maarten and Anguilla for our home. I am most concerned about the writing aspect with the book. I think I have skills enough to take the pictures I want. Ok, my book my pictures!!!
We are expecting ice this weekend too. Yuck! Did I say that I am definitely over winter now? Well I am. Contacted a friend in ST Maarten today and asked if there was room cause I was catching a plane down. Ok was joking with her but one snow and I am…oh yeah….said that already. With the ice that we are supposed to get I should get some nice photos, at least I hope so! Here is to KC not losing power this weekend once the storms hit. And about that winter thing....I realy am over it. Come on Spring!!
Today's good news is I did procure a second room for the week so my buddy John and a lucky friend as of yet to be named will be joining us on island for part of our trip. We traveled with him on another trip to the islands and had a good time. Actually too good of a time and he and I acted like a couple of college freshman on spring break. That wont be happening again this time but we will have fun. We have both since decided that we are interested in photography so our next trip will yield lots of photos.
My dream is to make a coffee table book of photos of ST Maarten and Anguilla for our home. I am most concerned about the writing aspect with the book. I think I have skills enough to take the pictures I want. Ok, my book my pictures!!!
Monday, December 3, 2007
Paddle Faster.....I hear banjo music!!
We went to Branson Missouri this weekend. For those that don’t know this is the blue hair capital of America! We have family that lives there and went to celebrate a birthday.
I saw a t-shirt that made me laugh….it was Paddle Faster, I hear banjo music.
Not much of a country music fan and next to Nashville there are more country performers in Branson than anywhere else. We did however go to one of the shows. I can honestly say I had a good time. The show consisted of six brothers that sang for almost 2 hours with no instruments other than their voices. A couple of the brothers could beat-box and all sang lead for differing music types. Best part of the show for me was the Christmas component. They were fantastic in this section of the show. They close with a salute to all Veterans which brought the house to their feet.
We later went to a Stone Hill winery tasting and were disappointed with that. Issue being Stone Hill is good at making the German types of sweet white wines, neither of us care for Rieslings’ and such…we drink the heartier reds. Oh well, we visited and moved on!!
One of my favorite things to do when visiting is Sunday brunch at Big Cedar lodge….very nice food and a beautiful setting. Is fantastic!!! http://www.big-cedar.com/ I snapped a few pix there as the grounds are breath taking.
I saw a t-shirt that made me laugh….it was Paddle Faster, I hear banjo music.
Not much of a country music fan and next to Nashville there are more country performers in Branson than anywhere else. We did however go to one of the shows. I can honestly say I had a good time. The show consisted of six brothers that sang for almost 2 hours with no instruments other than their voices. A couple of the brothers could beat-box and all sang lead for differing music types. Best part of the show for me was the Christmas component. They were fantastic in this section of the show. They close with a salute to all Veterans which brought the house to their feet.
We later went to a Stone Hill winery tasting and were disappointed with that. Issue being Stone Hill is good at making the German types of sweet white wines, neither of us care for Rieslings’ and such…we drink the heartier reds. Oh well, we visited and moved on!!
One of my favorite things to do when visiting is Sunday brunch at Big Cedar lodge….very nice food and a beautiful setting. Is fantastic!!! http://www.big-cedar.com/ I snapped a few pix there as the grounds are breath taking.
We were there after a wedding and found this rose pedal on a trail...
The new pix are test drives of a new digital camera that I have in hand….practice for my shooting in St Maarten in April.
The new pix are test drives of a new digital camera that I have in hand….practice for my shooting in St Maarten in April.
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