Wednesday, December 03, 2008

A Great Day Is When...
You Visit Santa & Sydney

Sydney & Andy

Andy & Santa

Mom & Andy

Andy

Monday, November 24, 2008

The Mask aka Andy

Andy & Danny (Laura's Cousin)

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

There's nothing like a good PB&J

Local Veteran's Day Parade

Micaela, Dedric, Draiden & Andy









It's All Over

Neighbor Boys Ready for Candy!
Spiderman, Sponge Bob and Ninja
(Andy, Trey & Ricky)

Thursday, October 30, 2008

October 2008

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

ALCS GAME 1
Rays vs. Red Sox
Tropicana Field

Warm Up

Anthem

Tampa Bay Rays

Andy & Mom

First Pitch

Rays Dugout


Andy Playing Flag Football

Andy's Mean Face



Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Brad & Mark's September Trip to Paris

When in Europe, one must have a Doner kebap!

In an Irish pub in Paris.

Brad & Mark's September Trip to France

Brecourt Manor, inland from Utah Beach. This is where Easy Company, 506 PIR (see Band of Brothers) destroyed the four artilley pieces firing on Utah Beach.

Egyptian antiquities in the Louvre Museum, Paris.


The Bastille monument, Paris (see French Revolution).

Enjoying a rare Kilkenny beer in Paris.

A horse (and a handsome man) with a height problem......

View from Mont Saint-Michel.

Mont Saint-Michel - a rocky island in which the Franks
began building upon in the 6th century.

La Cambe German Cemetery. Contains more than
21,000 German soldiers.

Huge German bunker on Utah Beach.

.50cal concrete pillboxes along Utah.

Utah Beach looking east toward Sainte-Marie du Mont.

The public toilettes in St. Mere Eglise were very public.

St. Mere Eglise - town taken by 82nd Airborne June, 6 1944. Yes,
that is a replica of parachutist John Steele stuck on the church.

La Fiere bridge.
Point du Hoc on Omaha Beach. This is where the Rangers scaled the cliffs. The craters were created by Allied aerial and naval bombardment.

All of the gravesites face west, toward the US.

The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial at Omaha Beach in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer (see cemetery scenes in Saving Private Ryan). Contains ~10,000 American servicemen, including Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (the only general officer to come ashore during the invasion) and two of the Niland brothers (the Saving Pvt. Ryan brothers were loosely based on the Niland brothers).
I had some fantastic mussels in the fishing village
of Pays du Bassin (yes, it was a little bit chilly).