Future Engineer

Reuben building his sail car. 4 iterations of improvement through experiments. 

Explore museum in city if Albuquerque

Kids having a good time at the science museum.  Good day for it too as a high wind warning is in effect across the state.

Morning Workout

Watch "Desert obstacle course" on YouTube

At The Albuquerque BioPark

Flying Kites With Great NM Wind

A short hike

We did a short amount of hiking on a couple of trails at the top of Sandia Mountain. 

On top of the mountain

Took the tram up to 11000 ft.  Spectacular views

Made It To New Mexico

We arrived late last night, after midnight east coast time.  Kids were great travel companions, sleeping on the plane. 

Everyone but me is off for a walk. I'm lounging in the yard. Later today we take the tram up the mountain you can see in background. 

Playing at Haypath Park

Went to a local playground I used to go to as kid.  Would ride my bike down and play handball against a wall or play tennis.  Wall is gone, but the park is much nicer now.

Beach Day part II

And we had a fun time with cousin Nathan, Aunt Tracy, and Uncle Steven.

Beach Day part I

Great beach day at TOBAY Beach on Long Island.  Low 80's, light breeze, not a cloud in the sky.

Great Wolf Family Vacation Album

I'm hoping to get to making a movie from all the clips including Faith going down a big water slide!

A Quick Update From Great Wolf Lodge

Everyone having a great time...

Williamsburg This Afternoon

Kids Perspective

I brought my old camera with us on the cruise and gave to the kids each day to use. Got some interesting perspective... Yes they liked the cookies :-)

Cruise day 7 and Home

Just back from the west coast on a business trip; hardly time to recover from vacation! So here is the wrap up of the last days on the ship. It was a full day at sea back home and then disembarkation the next morning. for us it was really afternoon as we were almost the last number to be called to leave.


And of course I can't forget the getting ready for dinner song...

Cruise Day 5 and 6

Back to a beach on Carnival's private island. Great time. Then a visit to Freeport, a few trinkets, then back to the pool onboard. We also had our second formal night. We took some nice family portraits that we bought. I'll post samples another day.

More from the Cruise - Sea Day and Grand Turk

This cruise was very low key as to itineraries which was perfect for us. We had 2 days at sea followed by essentially beach days at Grand Turk and Half Moon Cay (Carnival's private Bahama island). Then we had a short stop at Freeport, another sea day and then back at Baltimore. Kids loved the days at sea and the beaches.

Karen and I were very impressed with the food; all good quality and prepared well. Very enjoyable dining experience. We ate dinner in the formal dining room each night at our own table. Most mornings we also ate in the dining room. Service for breakfast was a little more haphazard but still OK. Lunch we usually had on the Lido deck, buffet station style. Most of it was very good. The grill's hamburgers were especially good. The 24 hour pizza parlor was there too... stay away from the mushroom goat cheese pizza.

Here are some more highlights:


Reuben could spend hours snorkeling...


Faith busting a move at the Disco. Jacob meanwhile won a medal for his dancing later in the party.

Back From Our Cruise

We got back today from a wonderful vacation. We sailed out of Baltimore on the Carnival Pride down to the Caribbean. Super seven days of mostly sun, water, good food, and relaxation. Here are some pictures from coming aboard and then our first day at sea. That second night was formal night and the kids were very excited to get all "fancy".


A little out of sequence is the following movie of us blowing the Conch shell we bought in the Bahamas.

Processing the vacation backlog....

Not much new here today, so a good time for some more vacation pictures/movies.

Jumping in the pool at Levi's

Playing at the beach on a very windy day (Gulfstream Beach in Delray)