when i left off, we were just getting back from our “creole queen” riverboat adventure. we pick up the story on the walk back from the streetcar, near our hotel, where a local music shop had these really cool lego diorama of a mardi graw parade in its window. i narrowed it down to three […]
the rambling road show
new orleans, part one.
for christmas, derek’s parents gave us a free one week stay at any of the locations in their time-share network. when we looked at a map of our travels and the possibilities, we settled on new orleans. then, the grandlidboms decided to join us there for a fun filled adventure. we parked our camper outside […]
institute for marine mammal studies
so, we have a self imposed rule about when we can add a state decal to our usa travel map on the side of our camper. after much deliberation, we decided that we must take part in an event of consequence. an overnight stay. a local meal. or a local activity. in other words, we […]
miscellany alabammy.
so. aside from isaac’s birthday occurring and our visit to the uss alabama battleship, our week in alabama was pretty low key. we spent a lot of time at the campground, where there were several other kiddos for our kids to play with. when we first arrived, a bunch of storms has just passed through, […]
double digits.
isaac is ten. it happened last week. we were in alabama. and he turned ten. we kicked off his big day with funfetti pancakes and bacon. for lunch, he chose chick fil a. obviously. then we dashed home and scrambled to wrap presents. hazel insisted on labeling her own. 🙂 then it was cake time. […]
U.S.S. Alabama
we are in alabama for the week. we arrived saturday and will leave saturday, so yesterday (sunday) was our only day to do family type stuff. after a few massive thunderstorms passed through, we headed towards mobile, to check out the uss alabama battleship. but first. food. we stopped at this fantastic place on the […]
fort pickens week two.
and now. a recap of our second week at fort pickens state park. we have stayed in a few state parks at this point. in our experience, they don’t usually have sewer hookups, which means you have to be very thrifty with the amount of water (and other stuff), you send down the drain, or […]
national naval aviation museum and lighthouse day.
monday was martin luther king jr day. so after we watched a few youtube videos about him, we headed to pensacola for a day of adventure on derek’s day off. our first stop was lunch. one of my former youth group students is in flight school nearby so we met up with him at the […]
fort pickens state park miscellany.
and now. for my standard “things that happened when we weren’t on adventures” post about our first week at fort pickens state park… firstly, a screenshot of the map of precisely where we are. pretty sweet, right? on our way to the site, i stopped to stock up on groceries with the girls, since we […]
navarre sea turtle conservatory.
when the kids were getting their junior ranger badges at fort pickens, the ranger there told us about a sea turtle rescue down the island in navarre. plus, our friends were staying basically across the street. so, on friday we took a beautful 20 mile drive along the gulf coast to meet them and visit […]