Monday, August 18th 2008

filed in: Monday Musings, Photos, Travels

Our first day of our trip we drove to Amarillo, Texas to spend the night and to go to Palo Duro Canyon. There is a wonderful show in the canyon about Texas with songs, dancing, fireworks, that just takes your breath away!

Imagine driving in the Texas Panhandle where you can see forever mind you and then all of a sudden there’s this amazing canyon! It was so beautiful.

Palo Duro Canyon

Palo Duro Canyon, the drive down, was a little hairy for me….

The Theater Stage

I have never seen a more beautiful stage….they use the whole area you see even the very top! See where that tree stands in the middle (look really hard ), during the show a deer wandered up there slowly just looking around. I tried to capture it on my camera but because we couldn’t use flash it didn’t turn out. I was so disappointed!

Rider on the Ridge, it was amazing to see that rider fly across the ridge holding the Texas flag.

The evening ended with a fantastic fireworks show and the final view was this. Beautiful!

If you ever had a question whether things in Texas are bigger or not….

Here’s your proof….

The Big Texan is an Amarillo landmark, they are known for the 72 oz. steak! If you can eat the whole steak within an hour, it’s free. And no we didn’t eat there!

Well, I guess that will do for now…mind you that is just our first day and not even making a dent in the 830 photos I took! But I’ll be kind and not bombard you all at once!

How was your weekend? Talk to me!

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Monday, August 11th 2008

filed in: Family, Monday Musings, Photos

Another week of musings in photos….with some words added….

This is how the sky looked on 8-8-08, the clouds were a bit dark, but the sun was breaking through, we knew it was going to be a great day!

My D, getting his hood, very proud moment!!

GOT IT! Woo Hoo!!

I’m not the only one proud of him!

See, what I mean…(this was hilarious, his tassel kept flying in his face! I have many photos of that! ) His parents and mine came to watch D walk across the stage, it meant alot to him to have them there, especially since the ceremony was at 10 in the morning!!

And yes, I couldn’t stop smiling….

Great job honey, we are all proud of you! We celebrated with family at Reata, with great food, drink and lots of laughs…something we always manage to do when we are together.

See what I mean about having a good time? This is my very distinguished uncle…..

The rest of my weekend has been spent getting ready for mine and D’s vacation! We are leaving Tuesday morning for New Mexico, for the Sandia Mountains! We will be staying at a resort, and doing a lot of sightseeing as neither of us has ever been to New Mexico before. I’m so excited and can’t wait to take tons of photos!

I did get a new phone this weekend, a BlackBerry Curve, which I LOVE! I’m now able to Twitter via mobile, get my email, surf the web and I haven’t tried yet but I think I can post on my blog from it. I can access my blog, but haven’t tried posting! It’s like a mini laptop! Perfect for vacation.

I’m halfway through Eclipse, which I have found very hard to put down!! I did pick up Breaking Dawn yesterday so I can just glide right into that one. I’m still amazed at the writing in these books. My inner 17 year old shows itself while I’m reading them….anyone else experience that?