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Julie is a very lucky and happy girl this week. One of her friends,  and his fiance  are getting married on an all inclusive resort in the Montego Bay area of Jamaica on Friday November 6th and flew her down there to photograph the wedding. What an awesome opportunity. I have weddings this weekend so couldn’t go but she is thrilled to be there. 2 of her friends, Jill and Dawn also joined her to help! They are having the time of their lives!!!
They flew in the Monday before and are scouting out all the great locations – On Tuesday the couple did some para sailing and Julie got to go on the boat to photograph them! – They are being know as their personal photographers for the week!

Click on images to go directly to the entire album on Face book – any one can view these!

Happy Fathers Day to the dad’s

Julie and I and Steven and Aaron (now 13 & 15) just got back from a little vacation in Florida. Julie has a friend who let us use his condo for a week and we couldn’t pass that up. We drove and Aaron did about 80% of the driving – it got old and boring even for him. It was about 20 hours total. We were able to stop and sleep and Amy and Rick’s house in Kentucky both ways – that was awesome – and we couldn’t have done it without that.

We had so much fun of course, so much fun and sun and lots of beaches and a great pool at the condo complex!
We have photos published and more will be to come.

You know those cute little hard drives that don’t need their own power source and are meant mainly for lap tops – well, I do not like them! I only use mine for travelling and the laptop and everything there is in at least one other place (always a good rule). I was walking it to the laptop and it slipped out of my hands (yup it fell aighhh) – but it was not on, so I thought it would be OK, but NO, it is not being recognized. I had the beginning pics on the main hard drive already, and the last stuff was still here, but I have to get some of the middle stuff from Julie – she has it all, we just have to get together –

Wally’s flickr  – I was even able to post a video of us swimming
2009 Florida Trip, June – link to slideshow of set
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyspice/sets/72157619935272971/show/
I’ll be adding more as I get the other images.

Julie made the first post on her facebook – these are albums anyone can see without having to be on facebook. This does include some of the images Julie has that I don’t have here.

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http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=26997&id=1260314900

I have 3 albums started – I’ll be adding more as I get the other images.

These are usually some of the same as on Flickr – usually fewer.

Travelling to Florida:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=25999&id=1417072807&l=919c7b207a

Pool and close by areas:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=26001&id=1417072807&l=3620e91676

Treasure Island area and Beaches:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=25997&id=1417072807&l=5b4f40dbba

I just got back from 2 weeks in Alaska visiting my daughter Tracy, her husband Rick and my grandson Gunther who is now 2years 4 months.

I had a great time – spending a lot of time watching Gunther while they spent some time out together.  Tracy still had to work some of the days (she works nights as a nurse in Anchorage) – and even then Rick got to spend some time on the snow machine.  It was so great to really got to know that darling little man.

There was quite a bit of extra excitement.  While I was there, Redoubt volcano, which is about 103 miles south west of Anchorage as the crow flies erupted – about 5 times the first day – March 23rd and a good 18 major times in total.  We are in the Mat Su Valley – in the Palmer area and were not really affected too much.  It was not a lava flow – but an ash and gas emission that sent plumes int o the air as high as 65,000 ft.  In most cases – the winds drifted them away for m us – but on the Sunday/Monday before I left the did hit Anchorage and our area nd we got a light dusting.  This caused havoc with the airport – causing it to shut down. Even when I left Thursday night, Alaska Air was canceling many in state flights – but my NWA flight did fly out on time.  Rick collected a little baggie of ash for me from our front porch and we saw a lot of ash  on the snow – especially in Palmer itself – which seemed to have gotten more that us.

These collages are made with images form the Alaska Volcano Observatory which was monitoring the situation carefully and had updates every hour.  They have awesome images on the site of every stage of the eruptions, even live webcams that were sometimes clear enough to see.