I was recently watching this show online from the History Channel, entitled “MonsterQuest: America’s Loch Ness Monster” . It’s an entire show (6 parts) dedicated to Champ (a.k.a. Champy), the infamous lake monster living in Lake Champlain, which lies between Vermont and northeastern New York. I thought I knew the legend of Champ fairly well [...]
Last week we were on vacation in Florida visiting my mom. Hopefully I’ll find the time soon to add some stories to this post, but in the mean time here are some photos from our trip.
I took 190 photos on our trip to New York (although a dozen or so were sequences meant for panoramic stitching later on). With the addition of photos I copied from my sister’s camera, we came back with over 200. Here are 42 of them.
On Saturday we visited Northport. First we briefly stopped by Northport High School where Patty and I first met. (No, we never dated back then.) Then we had lunch at Shipwreck Diner on Main Street and walked around the docks and Northport Village Park. Our trip to Northport made us a bit late for our [...]
On Friday we went into the city and acted like tourists. We went to South Street Seaport with my sister Amy. We enjoyed walking around Pier 17 and got great photos of the Brooklyn Bridge but we were completely disappointed to discover that the historic Fulton Fish Market is now just one big Gap store. [...]
I’m back in New York, Queens to be precise. We flew in to LaGuardia this morning. We had nothing in particular planned for today, but the most exciting moment of our trip so far was when my mom picked us up from the airport. As I was about to put our luggage in the car, [...]
On the trip down to Florida Darah fell asleep the moment we took off and stayed asleep nearly the entire flight. On the trip back to Charlotte Darah was wide awake the whole time, only to fall asleep the moment we touched down. Otherwise the flight home today was uneventful. Also, when we got home [...]
Darah was up crying nearly the entire night, which meant that Patty and I were up nearly the entire night. Not a fun night. First thing in the morning we took Darah to an urgent care, the same one I went to last year. She was in and out in no time but we didn’t [...]
On Tuesday we went to City Place in West Palm Beach. We ate lunch at Bruzzi’s and for the third straight time, a waiter asked if I wanted diet coke or regular coke (as I ordered). Should I be getting a hint here? In the afternoon I took Maegan to play miniature golf at Adventure [...]
On Sunday I took Maegan swimming again. This time I went swimming too, and learned two painful lessons. #1 is that when you’re losing your hair (like I am), you have to protect the top of your head from the sun. #2 is that you shouldn’t close your eyes when trying to pick up objects [...]