After awhile, Crocodile....

You should read today's blog from the bottom to the top -- that's the order of events and the pictures just ended up in the wrong order and I'm going with it.

The first set of photos are our new house, which is almost finished and we get to move in in September after we return from a month in S. Africa! I think the house photos are self explanatory...






this next one is going into the master bedroom













OK, now read from the bottom up, sortof...

After Mt. Rushmore on the way to Minnesota, we stopped by the Corn Palace in Mitchell, SD!!!! I know you're jealous! The diorama's were cool - big pictures made entirely of ears of corn. The whole outside of the building used to be covered in the corn designs, but in the name of building codes and probably economies of time, they are now just diaroamas on a brick and steel building.




One day after returning from Anchorage, Johan and I took off and went to Mt. Rushmore and then to visit friends in Minnesota. I forgot to take photos of Minnesota, but here's Johan's head added to the 4 you know... or do you know them? Johan kept trying to convince me that the third one from the left was Nelson Mandela... Hey, at least he knows his presidents!











I went to Alaska (yes, I took the photo at the left) on business and happened to be there at the summer Solstice! A couple co-worker friends and I went to Denali for the weekend -- beautiful! But one of the most impressive things was the sunlight at all hours during this time of year there. I took photos to show you all...









This photo below was at 6 a.m. ............................... This one was at 3 a.m.


Both of the photos below were taken at midnight. No flash!