My Summer Vacation: A Photo Essay
I’ve really been meaning to write so more details about our trip to Orlando, visiting the Holy Land (in Orlando,) St. Augustine and drinking from the Fountain of Youth. But these photos will have to suffice for now!
ICRS: Meeting great authors and cool friends!
Susan May Warren, prolific writer and blogger at Writer…Interrupted
Amy Wallace, Me, Mark Myhneir, Marlo Schalesky
Meeting the President, er John Morgan
Meeting Kirk Cameron, really! It was late and we all were exhausted!
And seeing the premiere of FireProof
Hubby got a kick out of seeing this road sign and made me take a photo of it!
St. Augustine, Florida Day One
Swimming in the ocean, wave jumping and
collecting sea shells. We came home with four small bags to add to our collection over the years
which is turning into a small beach!
Islands of Adventure Day Two
We picked a winner of a day to go! Hardly any wait on the lines and the weather was a pleasant 80 degrees!
Hanging with cousins!
Grace didn’t want to take a picture with Shrek, so I did,
and SHE took the picture! Pretty darn good, even though I wasn’t looking!
Dunah, Dunah, Dunah, Dunah, Dunah… Gottcha, Grace! All the kids posed in the mouth of JAWS!
The Holy Land, Orlando
Parting the Red Sea
Hanging with the Hebrews!
Can you say “Cheesy?”
But we thoroughly enjoyed the shows, especially musical resurrection reenactment and the worship through the ages! I really felt the spirit of God at the end, and couldn’t help but have church, maybe it’s because on vacation we sort of missed going! The Scriptorium was awesome! Rooms and rooms full of authentic Bibles through the ages, dating way back and written by monks in Hebrew and other languages.
We drank from the Fountain of Youth and it tasted bitter, like sulfur, but Ponce DeLeon thought it tasted sweet! Can’t imagine what the water on the boat tasted like!
Did you know the average European was 4 foot 6 inches and Ponce DeLeon was tall at 4 foot 11 inches. When he got to Florida and met the native Indians there who lived well into their 60s and 70s (average European lived to mid 30s) and were much taller, the thought he had found the Fountain of Youth. But it was actually the Indians healthy way of life and they didn’t have the disease the Europeans had. Ponce DeLeon shipped the Fountain of Youth Water back to Europe and drank it the rest of his life, which was very long, into his 60s when he died in an Indian fight (I think) and not of old age!
Those are the highlights! Maybe one day I’ll get around to putting the photos in an album!
