Amelia Island Part 1

August 19, 2017August 19, 2017 | Allison

We just got back from a lovely vacation with our friends at Amelia Island, Florida. Of course I took hundreds of pictures, and thusly I’m going to divide this into two posts, heh heh. Get ready for a huge photo dump!

Pictures from the drive there…

My siblings counted different kinds of trailers on the way there and back, keeping tally with a dry-erase marker on the window. They got a lot more than this till the trip was over. 🙂 (And yes, they did manage to get one truck honk in the end. XD)

Now we’re at the island! The trees at the resort are GORGEOUS, all old and gnarly, and covered in ferns and dripping with Spanish moss. It makes the whole place look really neat and mysterious.

And now for tons of beach pictures! You will be proud of me, guys: I managed not to ruin my camera this time like I have at pretty much every other beach vacation. XD

Going down the boardwalk…

Look what we found!

This beach is absolutely gorgeous. ♥

I love all the shells along the beach!

Isn’t this neat? You can’t see it too well in the picture, but I found a hollowed out shell that fit me perfectly as a ring, like it was made for me! Maybe it was. 🙂 Wow, my fingers look weirdly long in this picture. O.o ~~Probably because they are.~~

Can you spot the pretty little purple cochina shell?

And the waves are wonderful too… (Can you tell I just really like the beach? XD)

It’s amazing how powerful water can be.

Isn’t this picture neat? I like how the wave is rolling. 🙂

And we’ll end with this cute little tree frog we found stuck to a window of the beach house. He’s all tucked into a little frog package. 😛

Whew! Done with the first part! I hope you enjoyed. But I have to say, I think the rest of the pictures are even better. 😉 I can’t wait to show you!

What is your favorite part of the beach? The waves? The sand? The shells?

Thanks for visiting and see you later, dear readers! 😀

***Allison***

Assateague Island {Photo Dump}

June 23, 2017June 26, 2017 | Allison

On Monday we left for a vacation at Assateague Island, and so far it’s been a ton of fun! If you know me, you’re probably guessing that I took, like, hundreds of pictures. And you’d be right. XD This is going to be one serious photo dump, guys.

I was trying to figure out how to organize the pictures, but I ended up pretty much just keeping them in the order they uploaded, and hoping that it’s not too jumbled. XD

I’ll start with some flowers. We’re staying in a cozy little Air B&B house with a moss lawn and gorgeous periwinkle hydrangeas in the front yard. I love how these photos turned out!

Some of our funniest adventures happened while driving. One time my littlest sister Carmen came up with… um, rather creative “Would You Rather” questions like, “Would you rather have all your hair pulled out or all your teeth?” and “Would you rather pour honey or glue over your head?” and lots more that were too gross to tell. We nearly died laughing but it was so GROSS. XD XD XD

I don’t pictures marshes as being exactly beautiful, but the marsh at the entrance to Assateague was really pretty.

If you’ve ever read Misty of Chincoteague, you probably already know that there are wild ponies roaming all over Assateague and Chincoteague Islands. It’s so funny because they walk right up to you and wander around the beaches and parking lots where people are, but they can still bite and kick like wild animals, so you’re not supposed to pet them.

I love this next picture! I spent a long time trying to get this to turn out. XD

When I was taking these footprint pictures I remembered a little poem/story thingy that I love. You can read it here.

My sister Megan took these pictures of me with my camera. The next one looks like my elbow is lighting up. XD

As you can see, the waves make me happy. 😛 🙂

Heh heh, I forgot to put sunscreen on my back that day and now it’s bright pink. YOUCH.

My parents taking a walk on the beach…

We barely found any shells the first day, but the second and third days we found a bunch!

I took sooooo many pictures of waves, but I just couldn’t help it – they’re so beautiful! We hardly ever take beach vacations so I have to take what I can get. XD

My brothers built a sandcastle every time we went to the beach, and the last one was QUITE impressive. But we’ll get to that in a moment… This is just the beginning of a moat or something.

Aww, isn’t that picture sweet? My little sister, Carmen, loved the waves too. 🙂

I don’t know what Megan is looking for… shells, maybe?

I got some pretty funny pictures of my brothers’ expressions while they were jumping waves. XD

This is one of my favorite pictures out of all of the beach photos! Just look at their smiles! 😀 Logan is the one with the black shirt and Jeff has the white shirt.

Hee hee, look at Megan’s hair!

I got some neat silhouette pictures of my parents on the beach.

I like the seagull silhouettes in this one.

Isn’t this so CUTE?!

HA HA!

Hoof prints…

And footprints.

I got some really neat pictures of two wild ponies meandering over the beach.

Oh my goodness, isn’t this hilarious? The horses were investigating these peoples’ bags. XD

Going down the boardwalk…

More flower pictures. ♥

Ahhh, I LOVE the next one!

Here’s the first sandcastle my brothers made. Neat, but nothing compared to their later ones. 🙂

This is the second sandcastle. (I took this picture quick with Megan’s camera, so of course it won’t be as good of quality as my wonderful camera would be. Heh heh. 😛 )

And this is their last one! It looks pretty similar to the second one, but it’s more impressive in real life. (Megan took these pictures.)

And back to the ocean… It looks like Carmen is Moana. XD

More wave action pictures!

His expression… XD XD XD

I like this one because the wave looks huge! (Actually they were pretty big.)

Seagulls!

I got some more neat (but blurry) action photos of the wild ponies galloping.

And lastly we shall end with a sunset. These are the last beach pictures I got before my camera stopped working. *Sniff* I’m not exactly sure what’s wrong with it. It might be that the battery isn’t good anymore, or maybe it’s something else. It still takes pictures but the screen doesn’t work. We might be able to fix it when we get home, but for now… 😦 Any advice?

PHEW! You made it through almost 100 pictures! I hope you enjoyed them as much as I did. 😀 Have you been to Assateague or Chincoteague? Do I even dare ask what your favorite picture was? Nah, there were too many. XD

Thank you so much for reading, my friends!

***Allison***

P. S. AHHH YAY! Hayley is doing another ATC trade! For all the details, check out her post here. You should totally go see – the past two ATC trades were SO much fun!

Mystery Revealed! #4

November 7, 2015November 7, 2015 | Allison

Drum roll, please! I will now show pictures of what the mysterious things were…

#1: Wheel pasta

#2: Velcro

#3: Carrots

#4: Conch shell

#5: Popcorn cob

#6: Kitten paw

#7: Leftover spaghetti noodles 🙂

And now for the winners!

Abigail and Clara (my cousins♥) are first,

gadanagg is second!

Thank you SO MUCH to for playing guys! I really, really enjoyed reading your guesses. See you later!

***Allison***

Vacation!

August 18, 2015August 18, 2015 | Allison

We are just home from a wonderful vacation at the beach. Well, it was partly at the beach – first we drove down, sightseeing on the way, then we stopped at the beach with our friends for a couple of days, and then we drove home. Of course I took my camera, but… IT STOPPED WORKING because first my brother accidentally dumped it onto the sand because he didn’t know I had put it in a towel, and then it got splashed with water. 😦 😦 Thankfully I had already gotten a bunch of pictures, so I can still show you some. (Oh, and I ordered a new camera that is hopefully coming by tomorrow!)

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On the way down we stopped at Mount Airy, the inspiration for the set of The Andy Griffith Show (which our family loves.) It wasn’t quite like we expected, and the places were kind of scattered around, but it was neat.

There was an Opie’s candy shop,

and of course the Mayberry Sherriff’s office and jail. The jail didn’t look quite like it does in the movie when you went inside, but it looks like you’re actually in the movie when you look at the pictures.

We also got some delicious ice cream. My sister and I shared this (huge!) banana split.

Next we dropped in at our cousin’s new house, where we found a big fat toad. We also went to look at their farm, but I didn’t bring my camera there.

Toad – meet kitten, kitten – meet toad.

And finally, Amelia Island! We saw some beautiful marshland there,

not to mention the many other beautiful spots, like this lake.

The trees in the Southeast are draped in Spanish moss and sometimes covered in ferns.

The beach house was a veritable reptile and amphibian collecting center! We saw and/or caught green anoles, geckos, toads, tree frogs, and a garter snake. (The snake, by the way, was in a closet in the house!)

Now for the beach. (Where, beside the fact that my camera stopped working, I lost my goggles. But it was really fun anyway!)

The beach there was not crowded at all, there were lots of shells, and the water was WARM, actually WARM! That’s amazing to me because we have never been to a warm beach, we always go to the northern beaches if we go at all.