Sunday, November 27, 2011

MELON MUSINGS

Since the iPhone I have not been taking many pictures.  Also, I am not sure that "Melon Tours" really works any more (if it ever did).  Also, I don't know who the audience is here -- aside from my wife and a portion of our children.  So, this blog could get renamed to Melon Musings, which might just end up being some short cryptic blurb that emanates from me or my journal, like:

... Shauna and I are sitting on the deck writing in our journals with the sun beating down on us – it is very pleasant on this Sunday afternoon.  It has been a pretty good Thanksgiving holiday.  We went to Church in our old 10th Ward.  Sherri Wagner and Chris Durham spoke on gratitude, along with trials I guess – why do trials get talked about even when the topic is “be of good cheer?”  In High Priest quorum meeting I saw a lot of the old guard there.  Woody Wagner is now in the Stake Presidency with Presidents Frei and Ence.  Bishop North is driving trucks in North Dakota along with John Boyle and Ken Earl on contract for some oil hydraulic fracturing that’s going on there.  People are still struggling along – at least those that are still with us in quorum meeting...

Sunday, November 6, 2011

A Melon Smorgasborg

The little brothers

Falling for each other

A bunch of Daltons circa 1979

Linc being Ernest

Hands full

Hermana Dalton pre-Barcelona

A better shot of Mr. Penton

Pete & Clint w/same hairstyle

Linc hugging sisters

Luke now builds snowmen w/Cole

Super Chunk

Yikes! here we go again

Orphans

Monday, October 31, 2011

One more Pumkin


So, I can't seem to edit/rotate my pics from my iPhone.  I send the pic from my iPhone to my gmail account, and, eventhough the pic on the iPhone is portrait, it shows up as a jpg in the email as landscape (like you see).  So, I get into it and edit the photo back to portrait.  Then I insert the photo to blogspot and its back to landscape!

Cute pumpkin anyway.

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Halloween Tours

 Max climbing


Sideways Cole


sleepy Vince


Sunday, October 23, 2011

Tour Valencia via Barcelona con mi hija-hermana

After about 8 weeks Hayley arrived in Barcelona from Madrid...



She received a cute companera espanola, Hermana Martin from Cadiz, and they are pointing to where they are headed -- Valencia!


The train station in Barcelona where her parents bought tickets to France 3 weeks ago...


Montjuic in Barcelona with President and Sister Hinckley

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Finishing off the Tour de France

Taking the fast train to Paris from Lyon, looking all... nondescript.



Look where the Monaco F1 GP is held.


Shauna in the Marseilles Train Station


Shauna on the path to Monte Carlo.


Grace Kelly (on left)


More Monaco


And more...


Ice cream in Antibes


Club Med Antibes


Black Yacht Antibes (lots o' these)


Last night in Paris

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Melon Documenting Shauna's Meanderings

Shauna in Paris CDG...


Shauna catching a bus...


Shauna figuring the Metro...


Shauna riding a train at 300 km/hr...


Shauna with Goudi's Sagrada Familia...


Shauna checking on what Rick Steve has to say...


Shauna posing with Goudi's Parc Guell...


Where's Shauna?  Parc Guell...


Shauna with her companion on gondola to Montjuic...


Shauna observing Club Med from Montjuic..


Shauna is not done yet!