~Happy Keeper At Home~

To My Mom

Once upon a memory,

Someone wiped away a tear,

Held me close and loved me.

Thank you, Mother dear.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY, MOM!

FINALLY!

I finally got our pictures of our trip posted.  It took me 2 days to put it together.

See previous post!

Our trip south....in pictures (& some words too!)

We headed south on Wed. April 30 @ about 6:15 am.

Our first stop was the Hidden River Cave in Kentucky.

Our tour didn't start for an hour so we spent some time touring the museum part where we learned about the different types of animals & insects that live in the caves.

Here is a picture of us girls.

Here is the entrance to the cave.  It has about 100 steps to walk down to get into the cave.  Now remember, you have to walk back up those steps to get out!  UGH!

Going down the steps to the bottom of the cave.

Family picture at the entrance of the cave.

Our second stop was at Mammoth Cave in Kentucky.

Here are some random pictures of the inside.

After touring the caves we headed to Huntsville, Alabama where we met up with my DH's best high school friend, Jake.  We toured the U.S. Space & Rocket Center on Thursday.

Here is a picture of the Manly Men!  Mike, my DH, and his best good friend, Jake.

Here are my DH & Jake again.  There was this amusement ride there that simulated a rocket but the Manly Men weren't too sure if they wanted to ride on it.  I kind of talked them into getting on.  Dh really didn't want to ride it but Jake did so I "stirred the pot" and asked Jake if he would ride it if DH went with him.  He said sure he would so it was on.  TESTOSTERONE CHALLENGE!

Here they are before getting on.

All strapped in & ready to go!

 3...2...1...BLAST OFF!!

After getting off the ride.  Are you feeling okay?

Here are some astronaut's hands.  Cool huh?  

 Buzz Aldrin's hands

Collin's hands

 Armstrong's hands

The Space Shuttle

On Friday we traveled down to Mobile, Alabama to tour the Battleship Memorial Park.

Here are some pictures of the battleship. 

As usual, my crew, waiting to be fed.

This is where the men ate on the ship.

One of the stairways on the ship.  Those men must have been pretty small individuals.  No more than 5'6" and 145lbs tops!  It was a pretty tight fit!

Where is the BLUE water?

Then on over to tour the submarine.

 These are pretty tight fits as well. 

Here I am trying to fit through the submarine door.  I'm 5'4"! 

My DH.  The king of the submarine!

Someone's lady?

As we were leaving there were a bunch of seagulls flying around the parking lot.  Only ONE bird was near our car when I remembered that I had a ziplock back of pretzel sticks in my purse.  One bird turned into this!

After touring the Battleship Memorial Park we heading further south to Dauphin Island so that we could see the beach.

WELCOME TO DAUPHIN ISLAND

There was a ferry that you could drive your car up on and it would take you across but I wasn't too sure about that idea.  I'm deathly afraid of water! 

We took the bridge instead! 

Beach pictures!

Ashley

Katie

Here is a picture of my feet & artwork!  You see, I live my life behind the camera & no one bothers to take pictures of me so I took it upon myself to be remembered in some way!  LOL!

Aww....Love Letters in the Sand!

A happy couple!

How romantic!

A day at the beach produces happy faces!

Saturday we went to DH's 20th class reunion.  I won't bother you with class pictures though.

After that we went to a national forest down there.

Here are some random scenic pictures.

Then on Sunday morning we headed for home.  It took us 13 hours to drive from southern Alabama to northeast Indiana. 

Here are some scenes from the drive home.

The highways in the sky.

The hills of Tennessee.

And the tunnel!

Here are the girls on the way home.

Are we there YET?

Katie snuggling her pillow in the car on the way home.

 Hope you enjoyed our trip as much as we did! 

I'm back!

We are back from our trip to Alabama.  We arrived back home on Sunday night around 8:30.

I am very busy trying to get caught up with my daily routine so....

To be continued......(with pictures!)

My Color Results

I'm not posting about my skin color this time! 

I took the "What color are you?" quiz & here are my results:

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You are green. Perhaps one of the most balanced of all the colors. By balanced, I mean balanced in both bad and good parts. Let me elaborate: You're a natural, and somewhat superficial person. You're extremely generous, but, to add to the confusion, you're frugal and stingy. You're a forgiving, but jealous person. You're imaginative, but still logical. At sometimes, you're a complete neat-freak, and other times, you're a total slob. You're very stable, but undependable. But onto the other traits that are associated with this color... You're a stubborn person, simply put. Do you believe in Feng Shui? Green is closely related to the thought of having a balanced environment, you know. When in a bad situation, you're painfully pessimistic, and when you're in a good situation, you're extremely optimistic. A fairly outgoing and amused person, you enjoy talking to people, and hearing their thoughts on different things. As a plus, when people hang around you, it seems like time passes by all the more quickly.

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I would say that most of that is true except for me being outgoing.  I disagree with that.  I'm not outgoing what-so-ever!

I don't know about the last sentence either.  I guess you would have to ask someone that I hang around with for an honest answer to that. 

Do I make time pass by all the more quickly or does time seem to stand still when you are with me?  LOL!  What a question huh?  I'm glad that no one has asked me that!