Alaska & Sea World Adventures

Where, oh where, has the time gone? Tomorrow is October 1st! Oh my gosh, this year has flown by! Well, once again I've been a blogging slacker, but this past month was a rather busy one to say the least. I don't even quite know where to begin...

Well, let's see... at the very end of August I went down to Orlando with two other coworkers to take a class on Playground Safety for my job. On the third day, I took an exam to become a CPSI (Certified Playground Safety Inspector) and just last week I found out that I passed - yay!! Basically having that certification will just verify to our customers and installers that yes, I do know what I'm doing when I design these playgrounds and no, kids will not be in danger when they play on them :) The test was actually rather intense, believe-it-or-not, but I'm thankful that it's over and that I passed.

During Labor Day week we finally got to take our Alaskan summer vacation that had been postponed. Although it rained a bit while we were up there, we still had a blast! We spent our time segwaying, hiking, eating salmon, celebrating Kennan's birthday zebra-style, and enjoying some quality time up there :) It was wonderful! Annnnd we even had the opportunity to go down to Yakima, Washington at the end of our trip to visit Aly & Pat, see their new home, and celebrate Aly's white coat ceremony. Even though our trip occurred later than we had originally planned, it all worked out rather nicely.

To wrap things up in September, we decided to go on a spontaneous trip down to Sea World last Saturday. Neither one of us had been there before and we had a great time! The roller coasters were probably the highlight of the trip for us ;) but the shows there are really neat as well. We lucked out with some great weather despite the threat of rain and the temperature even seemed to drop a bit... hooray for the onset of fall! Now we just need to plan our Disney trip before the holiday season rolls around and the crowds get crazy ;)

As for the month ahead, we find ourselves once again with a busy schedule. Personally, I'm just looking forward to proudly and obnoxiously support my Tigers in the office next week because the LSU vs. Florida game will finally be upon us. They've been giving me a hard time about having graduated from LSU ever since I even interviewed there (that's to be expected though, I mean I am living in stinky old "Gator Country" now). During my first week I brought in my LSU flag and a few LSU accessories... but next week... it's ON! :)

To Infinity, And Beyond

Once again, it's hard to believe that so much time has passed since I've last updated. It seems like summer has slipped through our fingers so quickly... although, we're still definitely feeling the Florida heat! Anyway, August brought us a few more adventures including a weekend getaway to Cape Canaveral to visit the Kennedy Space Center. We figured as long as we're living down here in Jacksonville we better take advantage of all of the fun activities around us! Anyway, above are some pictures from that adventure. We had both been their previously when we were younger but neither one of us remembered just how much there was to see there! I think they've added a few buildings & exhibits in the past few years. We spent the whole day taking it all in and we even got to see the last piece of the space shuttle that they're getting ready to bring up there. Pretty cool stuff. Also, below are some pictures from when we visited one of the very first little playgrounds that I designed when I first started working :) I happened to notice that it was built one day when I was driving home, so Sayre and I decided to go get a closer look.