5 Orange Potatoes » vacation http://www.5orangepotatoes.com/blog Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:24:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 williamsburg, virginia http://www.5orangepotatoes.com/blog/2009/11/11/williamsburg-virginia/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.5orangepotatoes.com/blog/2009/11/11/williamsburg-virginia/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:33:35 +0000 5 Orange Potatoes http://www.5orangepotatoes.com/blog/?p=2023 We spent the past weekend in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. I went down with my sisters and the little ladies (ugh, 10 hours in the backseat with the little ladies). We met up with my grandparents, my dad, and his wife Kay. We had a great time. I love getting together with the 4 generations. I came home and found that I had only taken 100 pictures, that is soooooo unlike me! However, I still have some decent ones to share:

This little wren gave us a cheerful little welcome!

little wren

Fauna and Robin in a bit of trouble. 

fauna and robin 

Little photographer in the making!

photographer Araina

My favorite part of the visit, the fife and drums. Loved how they were perfectly in step with each other! I could listen to them all day!

fiffe and drums

Fauna enjoying cranberry sorbet on an almond cookie, I was enjoying a Dutch coffee at the time. Like the hat?

fauna and sorbet

Fauna learning how to play hoops. HA, this was quite entertaining even though Fauna ended up with a bloody lip in the end. Surprised the college student made it through without any bruises or bleeding! Fauna eventually got the hang of it!

fauna learning hoops

 Loved this colonial mask!

colonial mask

Araina in her pretty pose.

araina

A collage of photos taken by my sister Robin. She was the photographer on the trip!

Robin's williamsburg collage

 OK, enough of that. Isn’t it bad enough that we make our families sit through vacation photos!

By the way, thanks for voting for me for Best Unschooling Blog 2009, I seem to be doing pretty well.

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Hi all! We are back from sunny and warm Orlando, Florida! We arrived back in snowy, COLD Ohio yesterday. It was really a fantastic vacation!

Here we are in the Animal Kingdom in front of the Tree of Life. A very sweet southern gentleman insisted on taking a picture of all of us. I’m glad my hubby finally gave in (he hates his pic being taken).

We were on the search for the perfect Mickey ears. Rainy found hers on the first day, look closely and you can see the Mickey ears on the pirate kerchief, fits her personality perfectly!

Fauna saw her perfect ears on a couple of girls, we searched every shop we walked by but couldn’t find them….this went on the entire week! Finally on the last day, at the last hour, we found them in a candy store on Main Street. In this shop they got to design their own ears and get their names stitched on….Rainy insisted on a pair as well.


This very cool Flying Fox bat was my favorite part of the trip. I could have spent all day watching these fascinating creatures!

Any Doctor Who fans out there? This is the closest we will ever come to the Tardis (UK phone booth in Epcot).


The trip was perfect….until the ride home, then Rainy got the stomach flu! We were going through the mountains in Tennessee, heavy snow falling, Rainy was complaining about her tummy hurting and the rest is history! What a way to end a great vacation!

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