Train Life Pics

The Dining Car. We dined with different people each meal. Always interesting conversation. Great food too!

Lovin the train life!

There was even entertainment. Emily and Pat from Brantford!

Toronto to Vancouver by Train!

Here are some pics from the first day of our trip. Didn't have wifi on board train so just posting now that I'm stationary again!

our cosy cabin on the train

Mark got the top bunk!

The view I woke up to on day one. Northern Ontario. 

A couple of minutes later....

Finally... cat video fest pics! Kitty Woodstock!

After many technical difficulties, I am now able to post some pics from the 3rd annual international cat video festival on August 14 in Minneapolis! What a great event! What a great CITY! The people are amazingly friendly and helpful, it is beautiful, and hey, they seem to love cats too!!

Here my friend Susan and I stake out our place early on the lawn of the Walker Art Center decked out in our crazy cat lady finery! Notice my nice orange tail.

An overview of the area with the Minneapolis skyline in the background. There were an extimated 10,000 people at this event and many latecomers were not even able to find space! Here's a small sampling of the sites seen on this fun filled festive cat crazed occasion!! As I was telling people, it's a freak show and I'm one of the freaks! Just loved it!

See, there's crazy cat men too!!

This had to be the best crazy cat lady outfit!

matching glasses!

great cat shirts and check out her tights!

even the garbage cans were dressed

Nice Dress!

The evening's events

crazy cat couple

quite a look...love it!

a startling site!

Another overview from close to the screen near show time.

Sue getting her face painted

just one of the freaks!

very good boy. he sat behind us.

We were interviewd by a local tv station having come all the way from Canada!

 

Beautiful black cat!

Countdown to Catfest!

Hi guys, Well the big day is here! We have traveled over land and lake to get to Minneapolis and are here! Only a few glitches. (like taking a wrong turn and ending up in Detroit and being shunted off highways closed due to flooding and torrential rain!) Maybe more on that later, with pics, but can't upload pics for now as I don't have my charger for laptop. Will try to rectify this situation today.Will run out of battery power soon so will just post this for now. Beautiful day here! 25C already and sunny! Great day for a crazy cat fest! Meooowwwww!!

Beautiful Barbados!

Here I am for my Birthday vacation. Barbados is, as always, just perfect. I have not been able to upload pics due to sketchy wifi here on the wild and remote east coast but I seem to be having some luck this morning so I will post this short blog to let everyone know that I am having a fantastic birthday week and hope to have great day (my bday today!) This picture shows where we are staying, The Atlantis Hotel. A boutique hotel with just 9 rooms that has been in operation since the 1800's. Pure Heaven!

Final Florida Post

I wasn't great with doing my blog on my short one week trip to Florida and I am home now. Just wanted to finish things off properly and post a few pictures from my last few days there. We went on a great little river tour where I was able to get some good pics of some alligators and some other wildlife.

We also finally made it out to the open ocean for some sailing on Saturday. Winds were light but it was great just to be our on the ocean on Grey Haven!

Heading out to the open ocean!

So, yes, I am now a fan of Florida...Of course what place in the world am I NOT a fan of? So it was silly of me not to think Florida would have it's charms! Signing off til the next adventure!

Warm and Happy in Florida!

Monday we picked Michael up from the airport in Palm Beach and transported him to his other home, Grey Haven. He still has a bit of work to complete before leaving Fort Pierce : solar panel installation and bimini cover installed, among other things. Great to see Grey Haven looking no worse for wear after her journey!

In the meantime I am enjoying the great warm weather and lots of beach walks. Every evening there seems to be a beautiful sunset. This was taken Monday evening. Yes, I'm a Florida convert, I think! This isn't adventure travel, but it's a very relaxing vacation!