Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Back to Reality
We're back from our cruise to Alaska. It was wonderful and I took 500 pictures!! Wow. It'll take time to go through them all and upload the ones I want. I think I'll put them on shutterfly.com . Once I get that done, I'll post a link here. In the meantime, enjoy Sawyer Glacier in Tracy Arm Fjord, and a picture I snapped during a train trip. UPDATE: I have begun my cruise review. It is currently in draft form. I hope to have it up sometime next week. Please stand by.
Monday, July 14, 2008
Anniversary weekend
Saturday was our 12th anniversary (oh hey.. 12th on the 12th.. just noticed that!) and we took a trip to the Oregon coast. There is an Indian casino we go to, and we had enough "points" on our player's card to get a free night in their lodge. We had never stayed there before and were very impressed by it. Here are a couple pictures of our room. I didn't get one of the bathroom, but it was nice with marble countertops and tiled floors.
Anyway, so naturally we gambled. Hubby hit a 4-spot Keno his very first game. Cha-ching - $225. I didn't know about it, because I was playing machines. I was on my last $40, which I put into a red-white-and-blue 7's dollar machine and I hit 4 white 7's. Cha-ching - $400. So I go in the Keno lounge to tell hubby, found out about his win, and sit with him while his last 3 games are played. It was down to the last 2 balls drawn on his last game, and he hit another 4-spot. Cha-ching - $225. So we decide to take some of the winnings and play machines a little bit, and I hit 3 mixed color 7's. Cha-ching - $160. When all was said and done, we went to our room with $960. Naturally, I took a picture.
After a free breakfast the next morning, we headed towards Depoe Bay. First, we stopped at the Taft district of Lincoln City. It was a beautiful morning. It was only 8:30 when we got there, so not many people were out. Here are some more pictures. I thought the fish sculpture was neat.
Next stop was Newport for lunch, then to the man-made jetty where we saw the most unusual starfish. It had 15 arms. I'd never heard of such a thing, but looked it up on the internet, and discovered that it is called a sunflower starfish. Anyway, we had a lovely trip and managed to stay away from the 100 degree heat back home. (It was 70 at the coast) Here's a picture of that starfish.
Anyway, so naturally we gambled. Hubby hit a 4-spot Keno his very first game. Cha-ching - $225. I didn't know about it, because I was playing machines. I was on my last $40, which I put into a red-white-and-blue 7's dollar machine and I hit 4 white 7's. Cha-ching - $400. So I go in the Keno lounge to tell hubby, found out about his win, and sit with him while his last 3 games are played. It was down to the last 2 balls drawn on his last game, and he hit another 4-spot. Cha-ching - $225. So we decide to take some of the winnings and play machines a little bit, and I hit 3 mixed color 7's. Cha-ching - $160. When all was said and done, we went to our room with $960. Naturally, I took a picture.
After a free breakfast the next morning, we headed towards Depoe Bay. First, we stopped at the Taft district of Lincoln City. It was a beautiful morning. It was only 8:30 when we got there, so not many people were out. Here are some more pictures. I thought the fish sculpture was neat.
Next stop was Newport for lunch, then to the man-made jetty where we saw the most unusual starfish. It had 15 arms. I'd never heard of such a thing, but looked it up on the internet, and discovered that it is called a sunflower starfish. Anyway, we had a lovely trip and managed to stay away from the 100 degree heat back home. (It was 70 at the coast) Here's a picture of that starfish.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
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