vacation day 5 - bookstore

On the 5th day of our vacation we did some shopping. These pictures are E in the Barnes & Noble near our hotel in Ocala.

discovering the trains

This is with her arm stuck in the train tunnel, but before she realized it was a problem.

reading books while pulling them down

When she holds something soft, Emma's thumb automatically goes in her mouth. She pulled this critter off a shelf and walked around with him, sucking her thumb. I think it was a penguin - upside down here.

day 4 family photos

A friendly kayaker offered to take these pictures for us.

canoeing, continued

one more from my view, when E was with me and sleepy

After David and I switched. You might see the black blotch in front of his face that is his long camera lens. He held her with one arm and took pictures of turtles and birds with the other.

I love these ones of E with the paddle, couldn't decide which to post.

She's taking her job very seriously.

Gimme that - I've got it now.

Pulling up to shore, David got out to take this picture. I was afraid E would follow him.

In the park playground afterward.

more canoeing pics

These are some David took when he was up front with her, after her nap. There are other great ones I'll add later, just wanted to get something up here quickly for the day.

vacation day 4 - canoeing

These are just the beginning of the pictures. More in another post.

The day begins - she discovers Sesame Street.

On land, pre-launch.

Emma is sleepy. I held the camera out in front of us to capture her yawn.

playing in the canoe on land

Daddy paddled the first leg up the river.

Sleepy girl in my lap. The life jacket was too fat for her to get her thumb in her mouth, so she was pretty upset. I had to nurse her on my lap in the canoe as David paddled along. Not as hard to do as I would have thought!

It put her to sleep.

sleeping, gliding... The grass you see in the water is under the water - it's that clear.

My new computer wallpaper, this one. The upside down heart is a decoration left from our wedding 5 years ago. It's painted so that you see it right side up when you look through the car windshield.

We went about 2 miles up the Silver River, David paddling mostly solo. Then we switched positions and I paddled mostly solo downriver. It was a beautiful day.

vacation day 2 -- Museum of Aviation

Another B-29 was at the Museum of Aviation, Warner-Robins, Georgia.

This is it, or rather, part of it.

David broke into a grin when we rounded the corner into this hangar. He was in his element, taking pictures of various parts of the plane.

Emma touched the tip of one of the propellers.

This picture barely gets the whole plane in the frame, wingtip to wingtip. Several smaller planes were parked under its wings.

The last B-29 was at a veterans memorial park somewhere, rusting away outdoors. Emma and I didn't go up to it. We watched ants on the sidewalk.

vacation day 3 -- Silver Springs

We visited Silver Springs theme park, in Florida, on our vacation. http://www.silversprings.com/

We rode the famous glass-bottomed boats.

Emma looking at the people who are all looking through the glass bottom. The light green you see here is the river bottom.

This is one of the boats.

This is how clear the water is. You can see all the way to the bottom.

One of the animals on exhibit: a capybara. No, I don't remember anything else about it - look it up and send me a comment!

Don't remember what this one was either - a very small deer.

At the entrance to Silver Springs.
Emma didn't want any ice cream that day.

Safely watching lazy caged alligators at the park. Tourists want to see alligators - better round up a bunch of them and pile them on top of each other in a small space with unobstructed view.

Forgot what kind of crane or heron this was too. But it's pretty.

vacation day 1

We left on Friday Dec 15, around E's bedtime, drove to somewhere I've forgotten already (probably due to the headache). The next morning I pretty sick and very slow moving, so we left the motel about noon and headed to find the first of 3 B-29 bombers existing in the State of Georgia.

do I need to type the Beatles song lyric for this?

close up of the baby driver -- now wait, I'd forgotten about the Paul Simon song too

the B-29 (world war II airplane), on an air reserve base in Marietta, Georgia

adorable as she unpacks my bag for me in the motel (another place I've already forgotten)

reading the camera manual

one happy baby, who stayed up late