Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Who needs facebook....

Lately, I have had a lot of "pressure" to join Facebook. I finally had my first experience with Facebook this past weekend while I was in ATL. Melissa showed me all of her friends and a lot of them were people I knew too. I admit it was fun to reminisce and see what people looked like today but I'm sticking to blogging. Sorry Mel. Sorry Jen. But in the good spirit of posting photos, ...here are some more pictures from ATL. Thanks Mel for letting us "crash".




Big City, Big Fish

This past weekend we spent in Atlanta with my old college roommate, Melissa and her 6 year old nephew,Brady. Melissa was nice enough to let us "crash" at her place and took us the the largest aquarium in the nation. The Georgia Aquarium had some of the neatest exhibits.

Here are Brayden, Brady & Lexi checking out the hide/fur of a sea otter.



And now, learning about the differences between whales with and without teeth. In the 2nd picture, Lexi is holding baleen - which is what whales, without teeth, have attached to their upper jaw.





Of course, Brayden checked out the shark's teeth as well. Did you know sharks can grow an indefinite number of teeth?



Probably the best part of the aquarium was the HUGE (I can't even describe how big it really is) salt water tank.





The large fish above is called a whale shark. It is the largest shark (and one of the least dangerous) in the world.

This next picture wasn't part of the "big tank" but it is too cool not to include. (I apologize the picture is sideways. I tried, obviously unsuccessfully, to get it the right way).



Although the kids all loved the exhibits in the aquarium they also had a lot of fun sliding down the whale slide, especially Lexi. Can you guess what she is holding?



If you guessed (simulated) baleen, you are correct!

Snow Day

First, I must say I don't think I have a good reason for my lack of blogs...but I think I will be back on track just as soon as next week passes. It is time for all of my consignment sales to begin and as much as I enjoy them they certainly do take up a lot of my time and energy.

This is really for the amusement of my friends and family who are still in or are from Chicago. Here are the kids at our latest snow day, January 21, 2009. Yes, it is just a dusting of snow and yes, all of the schools in our county closed. Amazing, huh? Especially, given all of the roads were dry and when they were ready to go outside (at 7:30 am) it had not snowed in at least 3 or 4 hours.



Brayden and Lexi's excitement was amazing. They talked about making snow angels and having a snowball fight. Too bad the snow only lasted until about 10 am and left them "freezing" and anxiously awaiting the next snowfall.



I wonder how long they will have to wait?????