Galapagos

ARRIVAL



Plants


 

  

  




Sealions


 

  

  





Turtles

Lizard





Behold our multitudes of Iguana Photographs:








LANDSCAPE











We didn't dive, but we snorkled a fair bit.  Lots 'o white tipped sharks and the coolest. sealions. ever.  They were begging to play...they'd chase your toes or dive under you to check you out.





BIRDS



FRIGATES


Heron


dusk



We spotted this sealion doing the backfloat, drifting around the inlet.  I jumped the hell off the top 'o the boat to go float with her.


Beach

Ecuador

More Ecuador...

Amhearst Island (no owls)

We did find some psycho chickadees.

Crackhead Camping

The city isn't picking up the trees yet...and since we have, like, six of 'em, we camped out in the dining room.

Short Notice - Happy B'day Rose...

Wedding

As ready as we can be!

Just hope the weather holds out.  We're supposed to get a whopping snowstorm.... fingers crossed...

Wedding Ornament

I made an ornament using the rings we wore before we

were married. Our first family ornament!

Portraits

Our awesome, talented friend Ben came over and took some wonderful portraits. Neither Ken nor I really enjoy having our picture taken. Ben made it a blast.

Prep

This week has been a mess of furniture moving, wallpaper removal, plaster repair, priming and painting.  Whew.


Also, the steaks arrived, so we got to screw around with dry ice.  Note: I advise that you do not try to breathe straight carbon dioxide.  It burns.

Almost done...

Kaya is awesome...

Making the dress...

 

  

  

About three months before the wedding, I decided that it would be easier to sew my own dress rather than find a non-wedding-but-still-nice dress that I liked.  It's coming along pretty well, if I may say so myself.  I am kinda at a standstill over the back, though.  I can't quite figure out how I want to finish it.  No butt-bows for me, please.

We built a mannequin with my exact measurements so that I don't have to keep putting on the dress to see the fit.  Making the form involved getting wrapped in a few rolls of duct tape   (wearing smallish clothes, of course) mounting it onto a PVC pipe of the right height and stuffing it with foam to the right proportions.  Did someone just call me crackheaded?  No, crackheaded was answering the door in my little duct tape suit.