Dixie Gun Works, Steve & Mincha's, Nashville, Smoky Mtns, Six Flags Chicago

2005-2008 Family photo's

A album for pictures of Wisconsin and other interesting places to visit.

Camping Trip to Door County and more.

We rented an RV and went out to Yellowstone National Park the end of June 2004. The first and last day of the trip was lots of driving (12hrs each day), otherwise we drove from 2-6 hours the other ...more

days. To me, the highlight was the Grand Tetons, what a memorable site! I just wish my good camera worked, I got it working towards the end of the trip but in the beginning it would take 1 or 2 pictures and automatically rewind!

Our reasoning for this trip was, after we build our house, we will never be able to afford another major trip again for a long time. It was probably the vacation that i liked the best. So relaxing and ...more

inexpensive! Our hotel room was on the 22nd floor overlooking the ocean. After we unpacked, we went out onto the balcony and enjoyed our first Mexican sunset! We flew down from Chicago, spent a wonderful time playing in the sun and sand, parasailing, snorkeling, and afternoon siestas! When we came back to Chicago, we had to drive home from there in a blizzard! What a shock after 80F degree weather.

I found a newspaper article in the Wisconsin State Journal, dated 05Jan03 in their travel section. It happened to be about Ixtapa and Zihuatanejo. "Lazing on the beach or around the pool is still the main activity in the Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo resort area, but dolphins are making a big splash. The family owned Delfiniti Company has opened a dolphinarium on the Ixtapa strip, where adults and children 8 and older can pay to enter a large pool and swim the dolphins.

A couple little known facts about Zihuatanejo:
Did you know the final escape place for the prison friends in the movie "Shawshank Redemption" was Zihuatenejo?
The word Zihuatenejo comes from a Indian word meaning "Place of beautiful women"

The morning we were supposed to fly out of Wisconsin, there was terrible fog and the flight was delayed. We would have made it to the ship on time, but the rental car place didn't have a car for us! ...more

They finally found a car (my husband was happy that it was a Chrysler Lebaron, convertable) for us, and we were off driving down the 'bee line' expressway. Just as we were pulling in the parking lot at Cape Canaviral, our ship was pulling away from the dock! We and another honeymoon couple ended up having to take a different ship to Nassau and transfering to the ship we were supposed to be on. We ended up spending most of our time with the other couple, they were from Brooklyn, New York. I have more pictures I'm going to add to this page as soon as I get a chance.