First night in Minnesota!

The wedding week is over! It was a grueling but fabulous week. We are now heading for Mt. Rushmore! We have no plans beyond that other than to keep moving west!

Woops

This is the disappearing Toucan! The other photo is a Grassquit!!

Probably a duplicate

I can't remember if I have posted this or not. At any rate, it's been a great trip. We just dropped 800 of the ships 2000 passengers off in Tampa. The ship feels lighter already! Now we are heading for Mobile where we will end our cruise Saturday around 1:00pm. We are looking forward to seeing Sam who is home from his first year in college, and Emma who has completed her 3rd year and arrives home next week. After that we have Dance Competition in 2 weeks in Birmingham, I have Mose Surgery on my face for another basal cell skin cancer and then we all hope it will be healed in time for Mike and Kylee's wedding on July 3rd. Whew! "No rest for the weary and the Righteous don't need none!" -Uncle Billy

Disappearing Toucan

This shot is so typical of so many of my jungle shots. The second I would get my target in the viewfinder, it would take off. Usually I would just get a photo of a branch, a little blurry from the fact that it was still shaking from the fact that a bird had just launched from it's platform!

Escape!

Carries turtle heads for the water. After several wrong turns and multiple washbacks due to waves, all of the little turtles at least made it out into the ocean...after waiting all day in buckets in 90 degree weather. And don't they usually hatch at night? Not to mention the bacteria from the peoples hands...

Turtle Release

This is Carries hand with the Ridley turtle that she paid to release in Mexico. Much as she refused to have her photo made with the Sloth in Columbia, I refused to participate in the turtle release in Acupulco because I felt the turtle nests were being pillaged in order to collect the eggs.