Happy Birthday Betty Jean!!!

Ah, I am loving getting a free pass on my post per day quest when I get to wish happy birthday.  I wish I had thought of it when the trio of Hopkins girls passed through.

Sorry, back to the original reason for the post.  Happy Birthday to Betty Jean, my MonsterMother-in-Law.  Thank you for raising such a wonderful woman for me to marry.  You done good.

Here is a video of her playing it cool with my mother at the opening ceremonies on our Disney Cruise.

Dinner Photo Bombs

While on the Disney cruise my mom thought it was a good idea to take photos of our food.  She said something along the lines of dad would like to see them.  I didn’t really see any value in doing so and so after a few times of going along with it I decided it was necessary to photo bomb a couple when she gave me her camera to photograph my food.  Melanie caught me and surprisingly decided to follow suit rather than scald me for my childish behavior.  Fortunately mom never noticed and I kept waiting and waiting to hear from her after she got home and showed dad the photos.  Sadly that moment never came and so either they didn’t want to indulge my sense of humor or their eye sight is going with their age.  Below are a sample of the photos, I’ll let you figure out which ones are photo bombed.  Sadly I still sit here and chuckle as I look at the photos.

Atlantis Dolphin Adventure

As I am struggling to find anything to post, validated by the last several days’ weak attempts to continue to my daily post streak, I figured it is time to return to our Disney cruise from this past December.  One of our ports of call was Nassau and we chose to visit Atlantis so that we could play with the dolphins.  Our first dolphin was pregnant and overly moody, so they had to bring in a second dolphin half way through.  I wish I could tell you which one is which in the pictures, but you know what they say about dolphins…  Ok, they don’t really say that, but it’s a good excuse for me to not name them.  I do believe the stand in was a young male, maybe two years old, named Menus.  No idea what the old bat’s name was.  Alas, it was a great experience and one that I would probably rate near the top of the trip.

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Disney Cruise – Meeting The Characters

So we went on a cruise the week before Christmas, a Disney Cruise to be exact, and today I realized as part of my 365 days of posts I should be pushing to not procrastinate on these types of posts as well.  So, I will start off with the simple post of the different kids pics meeting the characters.  Unfortunately Disney likes to charge $4000 for all of their digital photos taken on the boat, fortunately they let this non professional take photos after they take theirs.

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