Helmet for a Knight and other wild things

Colin likes for me to push him FAST across the floor in his skis, he would bend his legs as I went faster and pump his arms like in Wii. He has great balance since he's so short!
The Helmet!
The Knight going inside his castle. (plumber butt knight)

The trip to Italy, Sicily, Egypt, Cyprus, Turkey and Greeece

Joe standing on the starting line of the original site of the Olympics in Olympia Greece
A view from our ship of the port in Marmaris Turkey
A walk along the beach area in Limassol Cyprus
In front of an awesome Byzantine / medieval castle in Cyprus
Mount Vesuvius-volcano- in the background while standing in the main courtyard in Pompeii
Part of the stadium of Pompeii
An evening sunset in Naples
On top of the active volcano on Nea Kemeni Greece. It's a short sail from Santornini.
Joe on the streets of Savona walking by a nursery
Looking through an opening from a castle in Savona Italy

Walking down the lane to the opening out to the main area of the Olympics. All athletes ran through this to get to the arena. Dated 776 B.C. WOW!

Our dinner companions on the ship from Long Island, New York
Joe in front of a real Greek Cafe...........duh
In front of one of a thousand arches in Olympia

Sunrise in Santorini, Greece
After hiking up to thevolcano site, then swimming out to an island that had thermal springs from our sail boat, we actually hiked up the trail to the town in Santorini. It beat standing in line for two hours for the cable car or riding the goofy mules or donkeys!

After eating chocolate gellato. Cruise ships down below where we started our hike up.
Santorini Greece
A look out across the volcano to the rest of our tour group to the site. Joe, myself and a guy from England were the only English speakers so the tour guide would give us info them send us on up while she did the rest in Greek, French , Italinan and Spainsh. We liked the fact that we could just go on our own pace....which is faster than the rest of them. Europeans are out of shape overall.
A back street in Turkey
Turkish Stop sign
One legged women going down to dinner!
Yes, Joe got the pretty camel and I got the dufus with a dirty saddle blanket!
Joe camel??
1st step pyramid in Egypt King Koser in Saqqara
I could have lent the Sphinx part of MY nose!
One of my best shots!
Joe and the wild camel dudes near the pyramids in Giza
Sunrise in Alexandria Egypt

One of nine million fountains in Messina Sicily
The pregnant women in Pompeii that you see on Discovery channel....how cool
The seats at the stadium in Pompeii
Mount Vesuvius in background after leaving Pompeii on the way back to Naples Italy
Funny signs in Savona Italy
Ahhhh...the Swiss Alps. We left Munich Germany and flew over these to get to Italy

Random shots of the with of Colin

Joe had found a really neat cove on the lake that was shady and had a wonderful waterfall and two small caves. It was probably 10 degrees cooler in this area.
Who wouldn't want to have this pool boy by their pool?
Doing some fishing with Papa.
Little Debbie blue berry muffin and a juice! How good is that?
Tickles with Great Grandpa Joe and Mrs. Ludy in the sunroom.
Snacks in the boat.


More tickles!
Reading Ebb and Flo book.
A bucket of What??

Our favorite bat boy. This is one of Michael and Jonathon's old bats.

Play date with a cute blonde!

Colin and I met Tammy and Brekyn at Creekmore Park to ride the train and play after lunch at Chick-Fil-A. Colin fell asleep on the way over so he didn't eat very much. He and Brekyn eyed each other for a while then started to warm up. They both did some giggling. We drove on over to the park to ride the train and they BOTH started to cry. We only went around the park twice but that was enough for them, so we headed over to the playground. They liked this idea much better.

After playing a while we had drinks and Nemo snacks. This is when the kids really started to play with each other. They are so cute!

They were hiding from me and laughing. They would look at each other and crack up.

Here we are getting ready to leave, hugs for all!