Sunday, September 19, 2010

Monticello Trail

 I took a hike with my camera during the beautiful Fall season.


 
 

Elsbeth & Dan's Engagement photos

Sugar Hollow

  

 





Big Sur, California



San Fransisco

Inside Alcatras

Lombard Street


The Golden Gate Bridge

 

 



Flowers

My sister's beautiful flowers.

 
 


Hiking Half Dome

My dad was inspired by the movie, The Bucket List. He decide to make his own list a reality and we started by Hiking Half Dome.


  


View from the top


 

2 days and 15 miles later we checked it off of the list!



The Smashing Pumpkins

Billy Corgan at the Charlottesville Pavilion.


Belize

We spent five days at a friend's vacation home in Belize. We took the kayaks out the island to snorkel. It was such a relaxing and wonderful time!








Georgia Aquarium

Jellyfish at the Atlanta aquarium in Georgia



 

Wintertime flowers

At Montpelier in December.


Antigua and Tikal


Antigua at night

A temple at Tikal


Guatemala

This is the door to the house where we ground cocoa beans to make chocolate and then pounded it into wooden frames. It was delicious! I brought some home to make hot chocolate with.

This is from the start of our volcano hike. We hiked down to the sacred crater lake and actually saw an active volcano erupting in the distance!

This was a very busy market where you could buy just about anything.

 

We stumbled upon this waterfall as we were hiking through a fair trade organic banana and coffee farm.

 

Guatemala

The roads are very skinny. It is hard to believe these are two lane roads!

  

 

Many of the cemetery statues had missing limbs. The extremities would get cut off and the limestone would be sold at the market.

The view from the top of the school I attended.
 

These are students at the local school we would visit so they could practice their English.