Some old ones.

Leaving Georgia and our next door neighbour friends, Broc, Katie, Molly and Jack.

Momma Jo and Kasey at Meggie and Stu's wedding.

I baked this heart cookie for Jordan when he was doing the Tanker Winter Games in February in North Dakota. SO glad they're not sending tanker people there anymore!

Aww, Annabelle, we weren't really selling you...the Bounds took you for free!

Jordan being goofy in the wildlife refuge in Oklahoma.

This is a happy memory. It was Christmas of 2006 and Jordan had just returned from a deployment. We'd missed each other tons and it was a special Christmas to finally be back together. The UK has been great for so many reasons, not the least of which is that Jordan hasn't deployed (touch wood, haha).

The Mohawk. We (he mostly) got some stares for this one. I thought it was really funny, kind of like an experiment to see how people who have mohawks or are with mohawked people are treated. Interesting to be on the other side (weirding people out as opposed to being slightly weirded out in a nice restaurant).

One of our favorites, this shot captures a lot. It was taken on the 4th of July in '04 at the Lakehouse. Gorgeous view and sunset and memory.

I have always loved this one. I was visiting Jordan in Georgia at his apartment. We used to grill steaks in the parking lot on his little camping grill. And, his old X-terra... this picture reminds me of falling in love.

Camping in North Carolina on our road trip before Jordan's August '04 deployment. I am not a camper and I remember I had to talk myself down from panic when he left me with the spiders to go get firewood that night. We also used a starter log to grill our first set of hotdogs, but thank goodness didn't eat them, as they would've been highly carcinogenic (we read the label after observing that they looked scary).

Given the upcoming Christmas Holiday, this one seems appropriate. It was taken in the summer of 2004 at the Redneck Olympics in Georgia. I suppose its value speaks for itself.

I loved this shirt until the sleevemonster had its way with it.

We all went late night to watch Clint's case.

At the drive-in, Maryville.

This is all for now, but it has been a wonderful trip down memory lane.

Bratislava, Slovakia

One of Bratislava's famous sculptures. http://www.travel-images.com/rosto.html

A great little tucked away restaurant.

Don't know why I put this up, just liked it. Perhaps it is the fond memories of our stinky sandals? Or maybe the relative tanness of my foot, I mean, our feet.

The downtown was so nice. We got prematurely excited from misreading a map that we were staying right in the 5 starish looking district. We were so pleased with ourselves until a half an hour later when we found ourselves hiking a massive hill with our backpacks. Oops.

The people were really nice, seemed to appreciate tourists as Slovakia is still off the beaten path in Europe. The weather was gorgeous and the people were much better looking (think about Petra Nemcova- okay that wasn't the standard, but still) than in other places...we'll leave it there to avoid hurting anyone's feelings.

The old city wall.

Practice at getting our self-portrait right. It's one of our things we like to do, capture ourselves in various parts of the world. There's a book or at leasta short essay planned for release in 2010.

Beautiful view, not just talking about the person...

Synagogue.

UFO Bridge. Quite a site next to the historic city.

Train travel is, usually, lots of fun (times when it is not as fun will be referenced in an upcoming segment of the blog, Budapest---->Ljubljana, not that that was terrible or anything).

Vienna, Austria

Our hotel, which was great.

Back of Schonbrunn Palace, please ignore the horrid image of the person in the corner and focus on the building and gardens.

At the top of the hill in the Schonbrunn Gardens.

Stephansdom

"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood." (Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

10 December, 1948, after the horrendous acts committed in World War II.

This is not us, unfortunately.