Another sunset in paradise…

Another sunset in paradise…

Friday evening, Feb. 28th, we'd left the beach for a bit to cruise the shopping in Venice one more time, and afterwards drove down to the end of our beach for a different vantage point. Plenty of people were parked in the lot across the street and clearly they wanted to watch the sun set while imbibing. It looked like a tailgate party. That's all well and good, but the thing about that is that you're not right there on the beach, and that's where I have to be when at the beach. I need to be on the beach. This is my favorite photo, with the sun, the bird, the waves. We decided to go back to...

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I’m Grace Hughes, from Springfield, IL. Welcome to my world of fun, mostly involving cats and sometimes travel.

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april

april

erica got us all tickets for the Mission Outreach fundraiser so we all got dressed up.  this is one of my favorite photos of bev, showing off her cute leggings.  we all looks so color-coordinated! a...

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in between trips…

in between trips…

it was nice to be home with our kitties in march.  les enjoyed sitting on a rock in the water. i spotted a bunch of turtles on a log when running through the woods, but most of them plopped into the...

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the king

the king

We left new orleans on wendesday, march 15th.  the bathroom at the b&b in NoLa had many cool things on the wall, and this was my favorite because it included the isle of wight, where we've been....

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last day in NoLa, chock full of walking

last day in NoLa, chock full of walking

we didn't plan it that way. we were tired from all the walking the day before, so today we decided we'd take it easy. here's kevin, doing a great job of taking it easy in our comfy bed with the cute...

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the rest of monday in NoLa

the rest of monday in NoLa

after a great tour at the beauregard keyes house we headed out to the Fauborg Marigny section of town for some lunch. what a great sign! we asked two separate people about a place for lunch and they...

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whew!

i managed to post my thursday door this week with only 21 minutes to spare.  i'm glad i didn't realize that it had to be posted by noon eastern time today. as i mentioned in that post, i just got...

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a coupla doors on thursday…

a coupla doors on thursday…

sprinkled throughout here are a few doors from our trip to New Orleans, in March.  i must hurry and finish the postings from this trip, because i just got back from las vegas and have approximately...

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first day in New Orleans – WW II museum

first day in New Orleans – WW II museum

our first full day in New Orleans was sunday,  march 12th.  it was fun to take the quick ferry ride over to New Orleans proper.  it was rather chilly and grey so we decided we'd head for the WW II...

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