If you ever get back down to Daytona let me know, Its about an hr from where I live in Fl and Ive been wanting to go.

The best beach Ive ever been to was in Bermuda, water was warm and cystal clear. The sand was actually pink too, It was kinda cool.

 

Pete, I know your wife is hidden in there somewhere, but she's hard to spot.

Your eldest daughter looks like your wife, but the rest of them seem a spitting image of you. Good lookin fam!.

 

Thanks, Lisa... she's the one on the far left, right behind the 12yo redhead! What was really fun years ago was when I would go out to dinner with my wife, her sister, and their mom, and we would try to make the waiter/waitress guess which one was my wife, and they normally chose my mother-in-law who is only 15 years older than I am anyway! Wife is two years younger than me.

Brendan... you're cracking me up, but I understand. It's all cool. And I haven't meade nearly enough trips there, for sure!!

Lisa, when you see them all in person, it turns out the the oldest boy (between me and oldest daughter in back row) and the 12yo next to my wife are the two that really resemble my side of the family, but they ALL got her sides big eyes. Wait... no... the little 8yo girl up front really looks a lot like my grandmother, too.

We've actually only made it over to that little treasure spot once. We were planning another trip this past May, but that's when my wife's grandmother passed away, so we're hoping to catch the plane over there again next spring. It's a full day drive down and back, each way, and due to weather variability, we have to have an extra two days on each end of the planned travel window, so I have to take a good week-and-a-half off to go over there just to get about 5-6 days in LALA-land, and I only get 3 weeks/year to begin with.

The funny thing is that when I met and married my wife, her folks were not nearly that wel off, but their businesses have done really well. Her folks spend about a 20% of their time over there.

When I first got there last spring, it took about two days to get into teh groove of doing absolutely nothing.... and then it was really, REALLY hard to stop - doing nothing, that is! I disconnected so much that when I got home I had forgotten the name of the road I take every day to get to the office!

 

I will have to give that a serious look. Definitely want to see the southern part of AZ.

 

Cris, That was another contender for a quote by the way! LOL

 

Yeah, I was gonna ask where that red hair came from! Whoa! No doubt at least one of my kids will have red hair (well, depending on how many I have). The wild red hair gene runs strong in my family...as do the big eyes like your wife's side.

I envy all of you and your awesome vacations! Shesh!

Some beautiful pictures. I kinda want to see more.

Nolan quoting me is fun because I am a clown.

 

Lisa, Some people say clowns are scary. Not me but some do.

 

Wouldn't be the first time someone thought I was scary.

 

I'm sure the little kids who went past your house sunday would agree.

 

Woohoo. I get to seal my deck tonight. Thanks out to Mark for his expertise in buying the right sealant. I hate that kind of work.

 

A couple of the better ones I have.

 

Penofin? Sikkens? what'd you get? I build custom decks for a living so I get curious when someone says something like that.

 

Sweet. Uber sweet.

Right now I am imagining I am the girl up front there, the one in the cowboy hat.

I'd so love to be doing that right now.

 

Cabots 3000 is what Mark recommended. I have not seen either Penofin or Sikkens in this market. I know the Sikkens name just have not seen it on the shelf anywhere.

 

One of the greatest days of my life. Same day we found out we were pregnant!