Thursday, February 24, 2011

Ft. Pierce

The last 3 weeks have been crazy. The firsts week was spent on Orlando and then Grandma Wharton and I drove south 2 hours to Ft. Pierce to her Aunt Helene's and Uncle Bill's condo. Their condo is situated to that you and see the sunrise from the balcony right over the water, and then the sunset from the front door over yet more water ( the Indian river) its is absolutely breathtaking.
I am soo happy that I met these amazing people. Aunt Helene is so kind, I loved being able to visit with her and hear stories about my grandam's side of the family.  And Uncle bill kept spoiling me and grandma with treats. I think I have had enough Ice cream for at least a few weeks =]. All in all, I hope to visit them again sometime soon.
The walk out to the beach

oh the glorious 

I need to live by the sea

The view from the balcony 


the view from the front the door


oranges at a local farm 
packaging up the oranges 

Oh the pelicans 
so many pelicans 

grandma liked them too

hundreds of them 

waiting for fish guts 

this is a the navy seal museum right next to the condo, I took this from the front door on the 11th floor 

sunset 

swimming statues in old downtown Ft. Pierce 


glass that looked out onto the rive, it flipped everything upside down. 

moonrise 

blue jellyfish

more beach 

Monday, February 14, 2011

The Wizarding World

 THE MAIN EVENT

The whole reason for going to Universal instead of Disney World was for this. I was in a wonderland. These books are the reason I fell in love with reading. They opened a whole new universe to me of fantastic amazement, whole new worlds filled with magic and wonders. I grew up with Harry and Hermione and Ron,  and to see this world, it felt like home.

























Universal


For the week leading up to to heading out to Florida I was sooooo excited about see my brothers, I didn't get excited about actually going to the parks until I landed and saw my bros.