Christmas Tree Adventure 2014

Christmas Tree Adventure 2014 near Johnson Pass (tree selection photos to come)

Thanksgiving in St Louis

While Cody flew back to Alaska, I flew to meet my sister and parents in St Louis for a laidback Thanksgiving (our favorite). We enjoyed a delicious feast and puzzling.

This was a painful puzzle, but we did it!

The STL Thanksgiving creww

Ladies in blue

This pup met me at the airport

NOLA

Having a great time in New Orleans! (we're putting a lot of miles on this Yaris rental)

finally found a white mocha!

view from our 14th floor hotel

beautiful French quarter

St Louis cathedral

cats at the swamp encounters

tiny little alligator (the big ones are dormant this time of year)

Snake

Raccoon begging for marshmellows... I couldn't get on board with this, but she's still cute

pennies!

at the world famous cafe

inside St Louis cathedral

Texas Vacation

My class is done and Cody and I are enjoying our 'Texas Vacation', so aptly named due to my misbooking of airline tickets. We're enjoying some beautiful weather as we wait for the Texans traffic to die down before heading out. Here are some of our adventures:

Houston Zoo, for free!

Naked Mole rat shoutout

Zookeeper talk with the pregnant mandrill

We spent some time with the giraffes

and rhino rears

Here with a preview of the zoo lights

Enjoying some sun and kolaches (nowhere makes my white mocha!)

In our seats for the Texans' game (they lost)