As we celebrate our nations Birthday, I take a little bit of time out and thank everyone who made it to yesterdays picnic and made it once again a very eventful day and one to remember.
All of the pictures from yesterday are posted on my Facebook Album for all to see and share. I'm glad we did the picnic yesterday, a day that was not too hot and not too cold, it was just about right for a picnic. Today however looking at the forecast is calling for rain all day.
A special thank you to my Brother in Law George McClain who handed all the grilling and cooking, I usually help but got a little sidetracked socializing with everyone. A big thank you to George, I owe you a million and 2 favors now.
As Michelle and I are on Vacation this week aboard the Carnival Pride, you can track our Ship Location and watch for us on the Ships two cameras in the Aft or in the Forward Cameras. I am obviously absentee and will be writing my blogs absentee as even bloggers need a vacation.
One thing I have always wanted to capture and have to date failed to each time I have attempted, was to capture a sunrise on the ocean. In 21 attempts we are 0 for 21 when it comes for clear weather to see this, well how about this picture that I took on last years cruise of the moon.
Anyways, this is our first full day at Sea, we'll be in waters as deep as 21,000' as we leave the Atlantic Shelf and enter into the deeper parts of the Ocean. By the time this blog posts we should be going around Cape Hatteras, which is probably the roughest water that we typically see. If you are going to get seas sick, this is where it typically occurs. Our first cruise we were in the AFT (Back) and right above the engines, so yours truly managed to get a little bit seas sick.
Tonight will be the first of two formal dinners, that is when we get all cleaned up and they serve us Lobster Tails and Prime Rib. We will once again be all dressed up and will have a series of professional pictures taken of us as we are dressed up. We printed those pictures out last year and handed them out to everyone. We're planning on doing the same thing again this year.
The following video is from our first day at sea and formal dinner last year, please enjoy it and make sure you have yourselves a great day today. We definitely will.
Sunday, November 16, 2014
Here I sit in a not so quiet household, my wife is already up and the em this morning and so are both of the cats. She's watching something on the USA Network and I'm here surfing the net and collecting my thoughts for the day.
We have done a good bit of shopping this weekend so far. Michelle bought us a new Microwave on Friday.
We went to the WV Arts & Crafts Christmas Spectacular yesterday and was really surprised. The line to get in was huge and we arrived a half an hour after it opened up. Michelle wanted a hand made sign to hang on the front door and the picture that you see is what she purchased. We did get some nice leads on a few other products including some awesome candles and a custom leather maker.
After that it was off to JC Penney's. I'm continuing to redo my wardrobe after all of my weight loss, I even bought a pair of 36" waist jeans yesterday that fit rather comfortably. I have pants that have a 48" waist if you want a point of reference. Michelle also bought a few things including a robe and a few pairs of pants for after surgery work. We both bought a couple pairs of fleece sleeping pants that were on sale for $10.00. These things are ultra comfortable to say the least.
After we got home Jean called me and said she had grabbed a few picture albums out of the closet and knowing that I have been scanning wanted to know if I wanted them to scan. Needless to say I think I was there before she got the question out and have them in hand. To me these pictures are absolute gold and include a number of pictures that I had taken years ago when I had a camera when I was a kid. There are a lot of great pictures, some I can't even recall seeing before that I think people are going to be surprised with and love.
Today is our normal schedule of grocery shopping and finishing up laundry. Maybe some batch cooking for me this week. Michelle's Mom will be coming down to Morgantown today and staying with us this evening. Michelle has to be at the hospital at 5:00 AM and she will be right there with us as will her Sister(s).
Have a great day and have I ever mentioned that I Hate Snow?
All good things must come to an end, as long as you don't consider the results of my two favorite football teams (WVU and the Steelers) as part of it, it was a pretty good weekend overall. Now it's time to stick our noses back on the grindstone and get back to work for another fun filled week of work.
I did manage to get a number of pictures that Mom loaned me earlier this year scanned yesterday, a lot of them are duplicates, but I scanned them anyways just in case. I have much more scanning to do and being that I will be off tomorrow for Veteran's Day, I will probably get a good bit of it done then. Maybe even finishing up Mom's pics and getting back to scanning my pictures that I have. There are a number of good pics that I didn't have scanned previously that I now have scanned. I do enjoy doing this, it just takes time.
NOW Michelle really starts her liquid diet. She miscalculated last week and ended up making a trial run for a few days, now it is for real as her surgery is one week from today. I'm very proud of her and she has a large support group including her Sister and Brother in Law who have already been through this.
