This week we're going to reminisce on our Favorite Travels! I had three requests to do something about favorite field trips, favorite vacations, or just favorite places to go as a family or with other homeschool families. I combined those three requests and came up with Favorite Travels! Do you have a favorite travel prayer that the children recite or a favorite verse you can add? That would be fun too. Don't you just LOVE the graphic for this assignment...it's thanks to someone on Fliker (not sure that's spelled right), there was no name to give thanks to. Please share pictures or a direct link to them if you have any!
I love sunshine faces!
Here's mine:
I would have to say that my favorite travels, not just homeschooling trips, but when my family and I went to Disney World about 2 yrs ago. We left home on May 19th at around 11pm and drove all night to Florida and got to our cottage on the lake about 6pm the next day. We stayed in a cottage to cut expenses and drove the 9-10 miles into Disney area....gas was a lot less then too.
We loved being at the cottage and have often thought about going back down there just to stay in the cottage on the lake again. Disney World was fun but we really enjoyed the last day more than any other time. The Tower of Terror was just that!!! I'd go on it again though just to experience without so much fear again. LOL After leaving Disney on Saturday we drove up the east coast to the top of VA to pick up a friend that was moving to OK and he stayed with us for about two weeks then moved to OK to his familys home. We stopped at St. Augustine beach on the drive out of FL and my husband got to experience the ocean for the first time in his life. He's physically disabled but in the water anyway. With the help of a lifeguard I was able to help him get back out of the water! I have pictures of that posted below.
We stopped through all the coastal beach towns and spent a little while just enjoying the different areas. We were trying to make it up to NC to ride the ferry boat to the Cape Haterras lighthouse but we just weren't able to make it. We decided that might be a trip for another time. My daughter actually did a good bit of learning from reading maps to hearing about the history of the ocean and all the surrounding beaches we drove through. I grew up in the military life and moved every few years to one coast of the south or another, so I spent lots of time talking with her about the history. We visited a graveyard that is well over 430 years old down in SC where I was raised. It's as beautiful, spiritually, now as it was to me when I was a young teenager.
We stopped in NC at a winery and did a tasting and tour of the processes, we tasted many different wines and my daughter tasted sparkling wine (non-alcohol). The tour was nice since it was extremely hot in the south for that time of year. All the rooms were cold but very enjoyable. The drive through VA was really hard and traffic was horrible, with the addition of construction going on everywhere. The Shenandoah Mountains, WV, will never cease to take my breath away! It's kind of a scary drive in some areas with giant trucks barreling down behind and around us small cars. There are two toll booths there also, so if you go that way be prepared to pay the tolls. That was the first and probably only vacation my family will get to enjoy for a long time to come. We were gone for nearly a month with a few days at home in between times. Now for some pictures:
This was the view from our cottage on the lake...my daughter loves this place!
My husband in the ocean...still in his clothes! He didn't care, he loved it! He was sitting in the water...it was only about 8 inches deep. WOW! Gerald's lost a lot of weight since this picture!
We took tons of pictures but I'm not going to post any more of them because this post is getting very long. Hope you enjoyed my journey-tales...have a blessed day!
Isaiah 54:9 - For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
Hi,
What a nice idea. I realized I'm not going to be available much this week so did a quick one without pictures. I really could expand on it so people can hear about these cool places we found, but it'll have to happen later...
bethanyrae
Hi! Thanks for stopping by my blog. What great pictures! Love the one of your dh in the water, still wearing his clothes.
I hope I didn't offend about your sun graphic. I really didn't know what it was, but it reminded me of a clown or the face of the Burger King guy from those commercials, and I'm disturbed by both of those.
I always enjoy reading Ginny's blogger assignments. You're doing a great job!
I knew that graphic reminded of something or someone and, finally, it came to me!
Have you ever seen the movie, "The Wiz" with Diana Ross and Michael Jackson? There's a scene in it where Scarecrow and Dorothy come upon the tin man (who happens to be Nipsey Russell). He (the tin man) is trapped under his 'wife' (who is a big sculpture). Her name is Teenie...which she's anything but, if you know what I mean! The tin man, once freed, begins to cry, "Teenie, Teenie, Teenie" while tears squirt from his eyes which, of course, end up rusting his mouth shut!
The face on your graphic reminds me of Teenie!! LOL! And what's funnier is when my daughter walked up behind me and saw the picture of the face just now, she started crying, "Teenie, Teenie, Teenie." Too funny!
Just wanted to share that. :-)
Blessings,
Laurie
Edited by solodeogloria on May. 13, 2008 at 12:22 PM
I made a little change with my Friends List. It's on the left side and to open it just click on the word "Friends" and it pops out! Neat, huh! To close it click on it again! Thank you
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Seven Steps to Raising Godly Children
Principle - Impart God's word on your children and live in a way that you are their greatest example of what a Christ-abiding parent should be.
Pattern - Teach your children a pattern of prayer; when to pray, how to pray, and why prayer is important.
Persistence - Don't ever give up...teach your children to always have faith and not to give up when things get hard.
Participation - Our children crave our attention! The way our children see us is the way they'll see God in thier lives.
Praise - Encourage children, praise them when they do something right and help them when they have a hard time.
Prayer - Teach your children to pray and then to TRUST God for the outcome.
Priority - Make God the Head and Heart of your home and let them live with God's desire coming first in your lives.
WOW! Gerald's lost a lot of weight since this picture! 
