First Day of School

Tori's first day of school was Monday August 17th, 2015.  She is at Conger Elementary School.  She had a great time.  She gets to ride the buss with her good friend Charlotte.

Her friend Charlotte loves superheros.  Looks like they are ready to take on the first day of school.

Tori was more excited to ride the buss than starting school I think.

School was done and Tori coming off the buss the first time.

Sunday Funday!

Today we went to the Columbus Zoo!  It was a lot of fun.  Then afterwards we grilled out food.

Tori was hiding from the camera.

Of course Tori had to get her face painted.  It's one of her favorite things to do at the zoo.

That evening we cooked out on the grill.  It was a great night.

Playing with the new soccer ball.

Graduation!

Barbara has graduated, again!  This time with her masters from Otterbein University  all very proud of her.

Tori is enjoying the warm temperatures.  Loves to climb.

A proud daughter and her mamaw.

A proud husband

Afterwards we went to the playground.  Tori was taking dinner orders here.  Her service was very quick and with a smile!

I ordered a steak with a baked potato

Still loves the slides

One of the dresses made by Mamaw

Nana!

Nana came up to visit for a few days.  It was a lot of fun.  Didn't get a chance to take many pictures but we did have one really nice evening where we went out and played.  It was a great weekend.  Nana and Tori planted flowers in the pot and cucumbers and green beans in the garden.  They are all doing well so far.

Nana would help Tori pedal up the sidewalk...

Then Tori would chase Nana back down the other way!

I think both of them had a great time.

St. Croix

Here is our island vacation.

Started out 11° in Columbus to catch the first flight out to Miami.

We landed in Miami a few hours later after a nice flight on an Embraer ERJ-145 twin jet.  It's a nice small plane. 

It was here we found these! 

Now we are waiting for our next flight to St. Croix.

We arrived! 

View from Matthews place.

More to come tomorrow.

Happy Friday.  Pancakes and a morning walk. 

Went to Point Udall.  Eastern most point of the United States.  Nice views.

Another view.

Visited the Cruzan distillery. 

We went and saw the beer drinking pigs.

 These guys were good can crushers.

One of the days was a dog parade on the boardwalk.  Some of the dogs were very cool.

The next day we were able to spend some time on a beach.  It really was nice.

While I went to go fishing the rest of the group went  horseback riding.

Went out to try some fishing.   It was really cool.  The boat owner/captain was a friend of Matthew's.

The sea was so very calm it was like a lake.   This picture is St. Croix island looking east.  We were about 12 miles from shore. 

Even got to drive the boat. 

Today we did a little shopping and lounged around on Protestant Cay island in Christiansted Harbor.  This is the same island in the view of our balcony. 

The last day we went over to St. Thomas to check out the island.  Our flight left from St. Thomas.

Overlooking the British Virgin Isles.