Fenway...Home of the Sox

In the previous post, or the Maine post...not the main post, but the Maine post ....haha.. :) Anyway, I mentioned that I got the opportunity to go to a game at Fenway. Not a bad place for your first Major League Baseball game huh? There is really something quite amazing about how much people love that place. Fenway is just as much part of the Red Sox experience as the actual players are. It is truely quite something the view you get as you walk up the little ramp out of the dark hole to see the bleachers part around you and the field open up infront of you with the Big Green Monstah wrapping around it. I can only image the awe that it would be to a small child there first time in Fenway. It's no wonder that New England lives, breaths and dies Red Sox fans. Those poor kids don't have a chance, it's just in their future to be Sox fans!! I haven't ever really been a HUGE baseball fan, but you just can't help but to be caught up in when you are surrounded by thousands of people that love the game. Thousands of seats that fill up each and every game. Thousands of seats that win or lose, if the Sox are playing at home those seats will have fans in them.

Maine

I got the opportunity this summer to go to Maine...yeah that's right MAINE!! Let me tell you, it was absolutely beautiful back there. It started with a red eye flight out of SLC, we got into Boston at like 8 in the morning. Needless to say, whoever says it's easy to sleep on an airplane doesn't know what they are talking about....or they are a midgit. Anyway, despite the lack of sleep, hanging out all day in Boston was a blast!! We went to Fenway and watched the Sox play. We'll talk more about that later, when I get my lazy bum in gear and get some photos from Fenway posted :) So, after Boston it was on to New Hampshire (Ryan's home state). New Hampshire, although small, is beautiful. There's a HUGE lake near Ryan's house....Lake...Wina something or other...yet another beautiful place. There are just trees and green everywhere. Yeah, we've got nothing compaired to the trees back east.

Day 3 takes us to Maine!!! It was kind of a drive but it was well worth it once we got there. We stayed in a nice little campground right on the Shore of Mt. Desert Island. Talk about gaaa reeeeeen!! There were trees everywhere, and where ever there wasn't a tree there was green moss covering something. Not the gross green gooy moss, but the pretty fuzzy looking moss. We spent almost a week camping and touring all over the little Island. There are tons of rocky shores, beautiful boat harbors, sailboats, and over all just loads of beautiful things to see. Mt. Desert Island is home to Acadia National Park, which is the first National park east of the Mississippi River.

I still have some photos to go through, but I've posted a few that I like. Melissa got after me over the weekend because I've been such a slacker at posting lately. So hopefully this will get me back in the swing of things :)

Kari Sue

We went camping over the weekend, which I really can't remember the last time I went camping. Sad huh? Anyway, it was fun...just a little family get together hanging out up in Birch. My dad, Troy and Melissa went spot lighting on Saturday night while Kari, my mom and I stayed back at the camp. I wanted to do some cool night fire pictures, so we played around for a little while. I'm sure Kari was really sick of me by the time we were finished, but she was a good sport about it. This really wasn't what I was originally going for, but I thought it turned out well. I love how the fire gave her kinda an orange glow about it. And how it's just dark as can be where the light from the fire wasn't hitting.

Marlee Ann

So, I had a lot of fun playing with little Marlee all afternoon!! It's a good thing she won't remember who was picking on her all day just to get a few good photos :) Brandy was great, she just let me do my thing and experiment with different positions and props. I'm still learning and have SOOO much to learn. This was a great learning experience for me, and I'm so glad we got a few that turned out well.

Farmer's Market

One of the mornings in Santa Barbara, Ryan and I went and wandered around a farmer's market. All the beautiful fresh vegetables, fruits, and flowers really made me wish I lived close enough to buy things and take them home. There were sooo many good things there. Fresh carrots, berries, flowers, potatoes, breads and loads of other things. One of the things I loved about it was that the people displaying the different things really took the time to make them all look so nice, clean and fresh. I loved how the artichokes were all set up and displayed.
There was this one booth that had these beautiful dried gourds that were painted a variety of beautiful bright colors and then lacquered up so they were nice and shiny. It was by far one of my favorite things I saw there that day. I also LOVE all of the beautiful healthy orchids they had there...but then again I've always loved orchids :)

Santa Barbara Chalk Art

So, while I was in Santa Barbara there was this festival of sorts. Every year there is this contest where people draw these AMAZING chalk drawings in the parking lot of an old Mission during Memorial Weekend. We went on Saturday, which was the first day of drawing, and then went back again on Monday to see the final product of these talented people's hard work. It was sooo incredible! I told my mom I wanted to go back next year with her so she could see it.