Saturday, April 24, 2010

Sharing time with TimeShare Junkies

Gigi in Mexico for a well-deserved rest...tired of the snow and cold...needs a break from the amonia scent and loaded diapers...and to charge her batteries for what lies ahead!! Fall Semester here she comes...3 grandboys at the Insurance Consultants Int'l Daycare...maybe we take another vacation before then...make sure she is really ready!!



Puerto Vallarta is our favorite place...great beaches...great food...great people!! and allot of things to do...

We exchanged a week of our time share for the Villa del Palmar Flamingoes...swapped them a studio for a one bedroom lockoff...sweet deal...as you will see...sweet hotel.


Our room overlooked the pool...



We took this trip with our TimeShare Bandits...Bobby and Oxana...and you guessed it...went to a few timeshare presentations to get some nice excursions for free and discounts.

Oxana looking festive and fabulous...Bobby not so much!!

Mariachi Band...don't we see this in San Antonio?

The famous Tequila glow!

Next day we took a large catamaran out to a dinner on the beach and a show that night in the jungle called Rhythm of the Nights...
Didn't realize Kyle was here too...keep the dream Kyle...your vision has you in one of these someday!
Here is our host...greeting us for dinner.
Spectacular setting for a romantic dinner...there were about 300 tables...set on terraces built into the landscape...these are on the beach.

My beautiful "Leeenda" looking fantastic and well rested and ready for the evening...this kind replaces her need to get outdoors and go camping.

Bob Wiggins...a business man from the states we met...he and his wife Oxana joined us for dinner...looking a bit tight though cause he didn't have his cell phone to do a deal!













Here is the set of the show...(no cameras allowed during the show)...we fully expected the re-enactment of a Mayan sacrifice...we offered Oxana...she is the youngest and newest one here.













Some of the dancers...













We went to Sayulita and San Francisco...small fishing villages north of the hotel...in town there is what is called the Iguana tree...can you spot them perched on top of the tree?

Big ones....















Sayulita is the bomb...great little village that has turned into a tourist site...quaint and has allot of charm...

One of the things I am kicking myself over is not having a camera for the zip-lining. Last trip they didn't allow cameras so I didn't take mine...you will have to take my word...we did it.

Zip-Lining over the Veranos River at 600-700 ft...insanely fun...
this picture is off their website...we were much higher at times.
On the second to highest line...about 600 ft over the river...I went backwards with a guide and he encouraged me to dangle upside down as we zipped over the river...I am now ready for the
200 ft free rappell at the Mens Retreat next week...bring it on!!

Next trip...coming soon!

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Skiing with your Daughter!!

Katelin and I hit the slopes on one of the most beautiful days a father could spend with his daughter...fresh snow, spring weather, and incredible sunshine. Now that she has another man in her life (yeah that Charlie fella) I want to try and get in as much as I can before she becomes Mrs Kennedy...
She is still my little girl and always will be!!!

Monday, March 22, 2010

Whale Watching with Linda! Can't do this in Colorado!

My little Whale Watcher!!
There is a reason these guys are not going into the water!! Check out the video!

I was waiting for one of the Killer Whales to leap out of the water with a seal in its mouth and thrash around to horrify all the women and children...

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Tried to trade our Timeshare...no cigar!

Thought I might make a sweet trade on my Time Share for some time at the Hearst Castle in San Simeon, CA...
Isn't my week (fall week...cheapest of all weeks) worth a swap here...My Linda deserves it!

Maybe the back entrance is where we need to be....

We did bring our suits but left them in the car....

As conessueirs of fine art...


These seals looked like drunken sailors...passed out everywhere.
Drove a good part of Hwy 1...in a cloud and in the fog....

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Moving Rocks!

Matt and I went with Pastor Dyer to build an obstacle course for the upcoming Men's Retreat...and yes that rock is that big!

We spent the day prying rocks loose from the mountain side...
and hauling them by any means we could...CHECK THIS OUT.

Pastor Dyer burned up his tires trying to get that rock up the hill..my guess it was sometime during this next video... ya think?

Sunday, December 27, 2009

KATELIN IS ENGAGED!!! CONTRATULATIONS

A little over 4 years ago we sponsored an Air Force Academy Cadet named Charlie Kennedy from Memphis, TN. Little did we know that he would fall in love with our baby girl!! Charlie proposed to Katelin in Memphis over Christmas...Linda, Kristen and Katelin now have the fun of planning the wedding!!!


Wedding to come in 2011!!!

Monday, November 30, 2009

Herding Cats...or Grandkids!!!

Our Family is growiing!!! Grandpa and Grandma Robinson, Uncle Eddie, Kristen, Matt and Grayson, Kyle and Andrea, Kaleb and Kaden, Charlie and Katelin all celebrated Thanksgiving here in Colorado...don't know when we will all be together again...Everyone will be heading separate ways for Christmas...Linda and I will actually be by ourselves in Colorado...unless we find a beach destination to go to!!
We always talked about them...and now they are here!!! The 3 little guys...Kaleb, Kaden and Grayson. Linda will have her hands full...like herding cats, trying to keep them still!!!




Pray for Gigi!!! She is going to need it!!!!!

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Frozen Papi and a Gigi on the Rocks!

I told everyone it was going to snow! Our 5th snowstorm of the year...all before November 1st!

This snow is on the south side of the house...waist deep...what I have to walk through to knock the snow off the satellite dish...

Our Neighbors house...This drift up along side the house is over 5ft deep...they cannot get out of their front door...

Katelin's window is somewhere under there...her room is pretty dark inside...the window well is completely full...wih an extra 4 feet on top.After 2 days cooped up in the house, we decided to head out and see what kind of trouble we could get into...Linda insisted on leaving the Jeep...yeah you know the one with 4 wheel drive, high clearance wih 35 inch tires...pssst...she though it would slide!
Needless to say we got stuck at the bottom of Oakhill Drive and had to abandon the car...I only had a wind suit and T-Shirt underneath...really prepared for the elements.

The walk was 1/4 mile...the temp...19 degrees at the time...wouldn't want to guess the windchill with 25 mph sustained winds...hey we do this all the time in Colorado!

This could have been the last recording of our lives!

Linda sheilding herself from the Paparazzi! No no...let me go inside and freshen up!

Another neighbor...he will get out next week.
This should have been a clue not to go out...

If not the picture above...this one definitely!

Come to Colorado before winter and the snow really begins to fall!