Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Best picnic

For our last day in Maui, we drove to a beach that was about 10 minutes from our hotel. The weather wasn't super pleasant (windy and cloudy) but we decided to make the most of our last day there.  D.T. Fleming Beach Park had a shady area for the non-sun lovers (aka Papa Walt) and picnic tables.  We took lunch with us.  We sat on the beach, boogie boarded, and J.T. built a sand castle, but it was so windy we were getting sandblasted.  We decided to head up to the picnic tables for an early lunch. 

We sat there for about 10 minutes and it started to rain.  And not just a passing tropical storm.... it was raining pretty hard.  We were all rushing around, gathering our stuff up, taking it to the cars, putting the top back on Mary and Jeff's jeep and Francesca (on left in this picture) ended up being the only one left sitting at the picnic table.  She had her peanut butter sandwich in front of her, which was getting soggier by the minute, and Mary heard her say, "This is the bestttt picnic everrrr!"

Gotta love that girl's positive attitude!



Monday, July 29, 2013

Celebration of Life

We had a celebration of Karl's life, cowboy-style....








Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Fortuna Rodeo Parade

Abigail and J.T.helped put together the 4-H float for the parade and then walked with it.  They loved being part of the parade...







Monday, July 22, 2013

In memory... Karl Giacomini

My cousin Karl Giacomini died unexpectedly on Saturday, July 20.  To read the obituary, click here.  That happened to be the first day of the Fortuna Rodeo, which he had been involved in.  On Sunday, the rodeo company put together an "Empty Saddle Tribute" for him.  Here are a few pictures that I took...




It was a wonderful but very emotional tribute....

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Maui, days 7 and 8

Day 7










Day 8





It was such a great trip.... hard to come home.  But at the same time nice to be home...

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Big congrats...

to my bestie, Sandi and her man Garrett, on their engagement!  I am so happy for them!  I couldn't have picked a better guy for her, if I'd have done it myself!!


Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Maui. day 5 and 6

a few posed pictures....



Day 6 was our adventure day.... first jet-skiing...





and then ziplining....








 

Sunday, July 7, 2013

Maui, day 3 and 4

A little sunset experimentation with my fisheye lens....


Abigail and Michela.... (tip:  if you have people in a fisheye shot, they need to be right in the center so they aren't distorted).


The guys cooking up some yummy NY steaks.... my fav!


Sunrise on day 4... the island of Molokai


And Lanai....


A visit to Maui Tropical Plantation....



Pineapples...


Cracking open a coconut


This is as close as they would get to each other....


Back at the condo.... time for a little putting contest for the guys


And swimming for the chics...



Hot tub for Ma and Papa at sunset...



Cousins...