10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,..................
HURRY UP COME OUTSIDE NOW!! Bob yelling to me and me running in my nightgown thinking OH NO what happened. When I realized it was the shuttle, I ran inside and got my camera, we caught the tail end of the shuttle. If you look up in the right hand corner, you can still see it a little, it looks like a star. It isn't the best shot, but it is my first shuttle picture. Maybe a picture of me running out on the front lawn in my nightgown taking the picture would have been a little more entertaining though!
LAUNCH # 2
Katie is here for Spring break and of course we want to spend as much quality time as we can with her. We took her to the Calusa Nature center, went to J.N. Ding Darling wildlife preserve on Captiva, went to her favorite restaurants, saw Wicked, had a birthday party and the week just flew by.
One particular adventure; which I did not participate, has a special meaning for Katie and Bob. It will be known as the day Bob got launched. I am sure her grandchildren will want to hear this story over and over again. It is, the kind of story that when repeated is very funny, but could have ended tragically if not for our Katie!!!
Bob and Katie went kayak fishing. I was a nice uneventfull day until the launch of Bob into the mangroves. He rented this kayak, because he wants to buy a fishing one.
Unfortunately, it has a 'point of no return', once you roll it to a certain point, it launches you face first into the water without any warning whatsoever.
He got dumped, but then he had on a self inflating life vest, which inflated a little too tightly around his neck. So poor Bob is gaging on mangrove swamp water while the life vest is choking him, all his stuff is floating away including his paddle, kayak, fishing gear, and his new crocks.
Katie came to the rescue and got Bob over to a mangrove, set him in the crotch of a tree where he held on for dear life while being cut up by oysters and barnacles.
Katie went paddling around and saved all the fishing gear and of course Bob and his new red crocks.
