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  • mumito
    mumito Member Posts: 2,007
    edited January 2012
    Looking forward to some photos Faith. We leave this weekend for Mayan Riviera plan to do some snorkling.I now have a waterproof camera so will try and get some underwater shots as well.Tongue out
  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 7,605
    edited January 2012

    OOOhhh, I LOVE underwater photography!! You`ll be amazed at what your camera picks up that you didn`t even notice at the time, Mum!!! Watch for `cleaning stations` and flounders and rock fish, squirrel fish, etc. All the hidden secrets in plain sight!! Have a great time....

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited January 2012

    Hi all, we have decided to drive cross country to the 50th College Reunion at Dartmouth in NH for my husband...long drive from San Diego, at any rate it should take over a month as we like to see the sights...I have already been in all 50 states, but there is always something new to see.. We have driven cross country many times. Just have to figure out the main stops...we will drive up into Maine again too..I will have some pics of the Nothern Atlantic beaches

  • 3jaysmom
    3jaysmom Member Posts: 2,604
    edited January 2012

    hey all: we got the cold front barbara was talkig about last night... brrrrr. its warming up already, though.. that's why i love florida!!!!!

      drive safely, Lisa.. thats' a long drive...

      Looking forward to wonderful pictures LISA!!!!! givr tiny fish a run for his money (in another genre' altogether)........3jays

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 7,605
    edited January 2012

    What a GREAT trip Lisa!! Can`t wait to see the pics. My DH and I were wondering about doing the Route 66 trail one day....we both have driven a lot too. (I`ve even driven tractor trailer across country!)

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited January 2012

    We aren't doing it until May ....I did Route 66 in 1964 with a girlfriend of mine, we were kinda like Thema and Louise...

  • blondiex46
    blondiex46 Member Posts: 2,726
    edited January 2012

    Lisa, how cool is that...I love to travel and since I don't work that is the thing I miss the most...jealous!!

  • Elisimo
    Elisimo Member Posts: 1,262
    edited January 2012

    Lisa,

    If your travels bring you through NC, Raleigh in particular, stop in a stay a little while.  We have lots of room and I would love to actually meet you.  Just call when you are close and the beds will be ready.  My door is always open.

    Looking froward to lots of amazing pictures in May and June. 

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited January 2012

    Thanks Amy, you never know!!

  • Elisimo
    Elisimo Member Posts: 1,262
    edited January 2012

    Lisa, I will PM you my address and phone number so you will have them handy.  Don't be confused by the new name - it is still me!  Amy

  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 4,424
    edited January 2012

    BEACHIES!!!!

    BEACHIES!!!!

    BEACHIES!!!!

    IT WAS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Bucket list!!!!!

    Bucket list!!!!!

    Bucket list!!!!!

    We had our day in paradise. Yes. A day. Actually more like 10 hours if you want to be totally accurate. Cruise over, Off the ship after breakfast. Day on the island: Grand Bahama/Freeport/Port Lucaya.

    But for the bucket list?

    This fifty-five year old granny went snorkeling for the first time in my life yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Did you hear me squealing all the way from the crystal clear waters. The reef was AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!! EVERYTHING about the experience was AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 4,424
    edited January 2012

    I took a couple hundred pictures of paradise, but didn't plan well -- to have an underwater camera.

    The snorkeling was a very last minute, splendiforous decision.

    The opportunity presented itself and I shouted, "YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

    So I have no pictures of my many under-water friends or terrain..... so I just kept pinching myself and squeezing the images into my brain.

    It was the memory of a lifetime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    So now I'm hooked.

    I'm seriously willing to travel with you Mum + carry your bags, if I could go snorkeling again.

    I do have some beautiful pics of glorious white sand and amazing blue vistas.

    xx00xx00xx00xx

    Amy -- you really had me confused, but of course that's easy to do!

  • marlegal
    marlegal Member Posts: 1,482
    edited January 2012

    Faith, I am soooo jealous - that is a bucket list item of mine and I know I WILL do it someday! Glad you got to cross that off your list darlin.

    Lisa, if you're near Phila, PA, we must meet up again. I hate to say that we don't have a spare room though :(   Work begins ... drum roll ... next week!!!  on our upstairs so we'll be torn apart for a few months. Eyes on the prize though and all that! I've never done a road trip - that's another bucket list item for me. We did drive to Niagara Falls (Canadian) years ago, but it was a 'leave now to get there' trip with kids and another couple, not a 'let's see the country' type drive.

    Amyjo - are you suffering from an identity crisis?  Did I miss a story about a name change???

  • mab
    mab Member Posts: 14
    edited January 2012

    Faith,
    I'm so glad you got to finally snorkel - as my niece likes to say - it's FLAMAZING!!! 
    A whole 'nother world down there.
    (Don't feel bad that you didn't get pictures, those little fishies don't like to pose for very long.)

  • barbaraa
    barbaraa Member Posts: 3,548
    edited January 2012

    Faith, how wonderful that you love snorkeling! It is great exercise. Our west coast Fl beaches aren't great for snorkeling but the Keys aren't far and that is the best! I like to go for the wweekend. Drive to Ft Myers and get on the Hydrofoil to Key West. You get there in about 1-1/2 hours as opposed to 5-6 hours.

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 7,605
    edited January 2012

    Congrats Faith!! Now do what only 2% of the world has done and join me in scuba diving!!! If you loved looking down on the reefs, can you imagine BEING down there? I was always afraid of the water, so as usual, my DH pushed my comfort zone and I became a licensed scuba diver. I have even had a dive off Bonaire which is off Venezuela...unbelievable!!!! A whole new world....!!!!

  • mumito
    mumito Member Posts: 2,007
    edited January 2012
    Becareful Faith once you get a taste for the undersea world you get addicted and have to keep going back.Laughing
  • chabba
    chabba Member Posts: 3,600
    edited January 2012
  • marlegal
    marlegal Member Posts: 1,482
    edited January 2012

    ooohhhh....what a gorgeous picture Chabba

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited January 2012

    SURF'S UP

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited January 2012
  • minustwo
    minustwo Member Posts: 13,357
    edited January 2012

    Oh Faith.  How lucky to be snorkeling.  I was like Barbe and had to be pushed into getting my scuba certificate - wow that was 1975.  I try to keep up with the snorkeling, but would need a refresher course before I undertook a dive.  What I hate the most is you can't wear glasses w/the mask.  If I ever get to spend a fair amount of time around clear water I'll probably spring for a prescription mask - assuming those work with bifocals.

    Thanks again for all the pictures ladies.  I get my ocean fix here daily.

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 7,605
    edited January 2012

    Minustwo (LOVE the name!) my DH needed a prescription mask when we dove but we kept putting it off. He finally got one and then got laser eye surgery! So, the next time we dove, it was poor vision for him again!!! They cost about $40 15 years ago. Not bad for better vision.

    Great surfs Lisa!

  • mumito
    mumito Member Posts: 2,007
    edited January 2012

    My next post ladies will be from here with my toes in the sand.

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 7,605
    edited January 2012

    I can paint that picture in pastels Mum!!!!!!! My new skill!! Send me your fav pic and I'll only charge a bco rate !

  • chabba
    chabba Member Posts: 3,600
    edited January 2012

    Love the picture.

  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 4,424
    edited January 2012

    Here's my little slice of paradise.

    We had a total of 8 hours on the island.... or a few minutes less.

    This is at Port Lucaya, on the Grand Bahamas, just a bounce down the road from Freeport.

    We need some new flips flops for all of our newbies clocking in!

    WELCOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    My hubby got scuba qualified some time back. He took youngest DH, oldest was a chicken, so I stayed land-side w her. What a sacrifice.

    ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo how I'd LUV to go again and again and again.

  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 4,424
    edited January 2012

    p.s. there's a few more pics up on my blog tonight.

    too tired to copy 'em here.

    I have a school visit tomorrow. TWENTY-EIGHT classes!

    Seriously.

    Holycow, Batman!

  • chabba
    chabba Member Posts: 3,600
    edited January 2012

    An OPPS moment!

  • chabba
    chabba Member Posts: 3,600
    edited January 2012

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