Foto Friday . . . Vacation, part one

"Those that say you can't take it with you

never saw a car packed for a vacation trip."

- Author Unkown

Call me crazy, but I prefer to drive . . .

The cooler, the beach chairs, your own pillows, a bag full of books, grocery items

that you didn't have to pay a premium for, your camera bag and tripod, boogie boards,

more shoes than you'll ever wear, and everything you would need for building a sand castle.

Oh yes, and the dog!

You can't take all that on a plane . . .

As we left the sun was rising and it was looking like a beautiful Sunday morning for a drive, a 10 hour drive.

Until we ran into this . . .

And this many birds on the run fly can only mean one thing . . .

There's a storm a coming!

"The rainy days a man saves for usually seem

to arrive during his vacation."

- Author Unkown

. . . and rain it did for most of the drive! 

We went across the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge, all 18.2 miles of it, across the largest swamp in the U.S. and according to Wikipedia it's the 14th largest in the world by total length.

But it finally started to clear up stop raining so that at least we could get everything to our room.

This is the view from our room on the 14th floor from my camera phone on instagram, one of my newest

loves. I LoVe that instagram came out with an app for the droid!!

. . . the sun came out just enough to see a partial sunset. I can only imagine what it looked like on

the other side of those buildings!

{ Photograph life - taken at night }

We all went to bed humming the song . . . The sun will come out tomorrow, bet your bottom dollar,

that tomorrow . . . . and it did!

{ Photo Art Friday - vintage AND Summer Daze at Project Alicia }

And on one of our very hazy evening walks my daughter and I spied this . . . some summer love!

{ Foto Friday - Black and white photo challenge - Shoot.Edit.Submit }

Five days flew by, we had red and double red flags for days, some more rain,

movie night by the pool, fireworks, and even held an alligator!

Watched a man dig a hole (a very large hole) in the sand every day, took a day trip to

the Florida State capitol (it rained, of course), went to the wharf and fed minnows to a heron where we

also saw a little air show and an amazing sunset!

Yes, I have more more pictures . . .

Love, Kim

XO

P.S. - I missed all of you!