Kathy from Valrico, Florida, USA

Hello Kathy and Rob - thank you for visiting my page. Yes, the little boy is Johnathan, my youngest grandchild, and the photo was taken by my daughter on his first birthday two years ago.
I hope you and your family have a lovely Easter.

I'm looking forward to seeing your photos. Did you actually do the Inca Trail or go to Machu Picchu by train.
Cheers, Anne

What a beautiful picture on your page Kathy! Happy Easter to you and Rob!

Kathy-I hope you and your family have a wonderful Easter.

Hi Kathy,
Thanks for dropping in. Elinor will be 18 months next week and is a wonderful handful. There is one photo of her on my flickr page if you go in there and I will be posting more very soon. In fact, if you want to go to http://karinahonyi.typepad.com/ and scroll down (a long way) to the Evans Family you can see all of us (except Paul who was at a 20 year school reunion that day!)
Have a very Happy Easter!

Hello,

Just dropping by to wish you and your family a Happy Easter

here's easter bunny hopping on by with easter eggs for the kids ...... oh ok the big kids too!

Kathy, wishing you and yours a truy Blessed Easter. (And lots of chocolate bunnies with some peeps thrown in, too.)

Kathy, thank you for the Easter greetings. It will be 25F (predicted) for sunrise services, so a lot are going inside.
My husband was in the active Navy for 12 years, four in 'Nuke' school as a student. and then as an instructor in the same nuke school. Then he did five years in surface ships, and then eight years in the Navy Reserve in Charleston, SC. (During the 'missing' three years he was at Auburn Univ getting his degree at the Navy's expense0 Since then he's worked as a systems engineer at the power company's nuclear plant here in SC. Do you have a Navy connection?

By the way, the photo is awesome!

A long and admirable career, congrats to your Rob. It's about time he fully retired. Coincidentally, my husband, Bob also went thru the NESEP program -- that's what we were doing at Auburn. I don't think NESEP is still around. I know even when we were at Auburn, the program changed drasticaly. They no longer paid everything up front; it was later somehow affixed to future GI benefits and the guys got paid by the month. (Didn't affect us) It got tough buying books and things that way, but one guy that came in after we did and went thru the program that way went back nuclear (which is odd, but was designated by Adm. Rickover himself) is still active -- we feel he'll go all the way to admiral.
We only made eleven moves, some just local, in those 9 years. Sorry for taking up so much space, just couldn't help the 'small world' feeling.

Kathy, my hubby just came in and corrected me -- he did 12 years active and 13 years reserve. (O dopey me) As they say, time flies when......

Dear Kathy !
I wish you a wonderful Easter to you and your family ! It's the first time tomorrow that Elsa search eggs in the garden ! great time !

I would love to get together. Do you get to Fripp or SC often? I can never tell if my husband can get time off, so except for annual golf tourneys we haven't been away from home even overnight in over two years. That is except for our son's wedding last July. Will try though, let me know.

Hi Kathy,I live 45 miles south of Lake Erie,we get a lot of lake effect snow in the winter and today too!Have to look to see if its Easter or Christmas!
you saw my pets,my little pride and joy's!
Sky isn't all lab even tho the people I got him from said he was I knew better ,he has a spotted tongue and he's tail curls over his back ,I think he has chow in him .But we don't tell him he a 'mixed breed' shhhh and his father was a stranger!He was so cute when I picked him out he was the one that yawned as if it were to much trouble to wake up,I wanted a quiet dog and I said he's the one!He'll be a year old the 16th and he still yawns a lot!
I bet you can't wait til june ,I know how much you miss your little dog and it will be nice to have another,you will enjoy it!can't wait for the pic's!

Beautiful photos Kathy !its just wonderful to travel and see sights like that!Thank you for sharing them!

Beautiful pictures Kathy. Can hardly wait for the next installment. Thank you

Kathy & Rob - I love your photos of Cusco and Machu Picchu. It looks like you had a bit of cloudy weather at Machu Picchu. I fell in love with Cusco when I was there, what a beautiful place it is. I also loved Arequipa, did you visit there as well.

Thank you Kathy. I do good work, don't I? The older ones are Jacques (13.5) and Ariane (11) from my first marriage.
I hope you're having a great Easter.

Kathy, enjoying your photos. Time on my hands this morning, waiting for my Easter bunny so I did a fast search for information for you.

Wikipedia says national flower of Peru is the cantuta (cantua buxifolia). .. Does that sound right? I espically like the flower and fauna photos of places I shall never see in person. LOVELY photos, thanks for sharing.

Anne, Our two trips up through Machu Picchu were scheduled in the late afternoon & early morning to avoid the larger crowds midday. We felt that we very lucky with the weather since March is still in the rainy season there, but we had only one short spell of rain right before we got on the train back. Rob actually liked the views best in the early morning cloud cover, as in that one photo in particular. It's such a magical feeling being so high up there in the clouds. We did not go to Arequipa.

Miz Tricia - am writing to you here since you don't have your own page (yet??). Thank you for doing my homework for me on the cantuta!! I went to Wikipedia to read more about it & found that the picture there was taken at the same place we took ours! It was at the garden of Korikancha, the Temple of the Sun, in Cusco. That's an interesting story about the Incan legend of the two brothers, too. Glad you referred me there. If you enjoy photos of flora & fauna, just wait until you see the amazing creatures that live in the Galapagos! Will try to get them loaded today.

G'day Kathy! Wishing you a Happy Easter filled with all the things that make a happy heart!

Posted the message below on Easy last night but decided to repeat it here on my page FYI:

It's 12:18 AM & I have just finished uploading to Flickr some of our chosen photos from Peru. It was hard to pick which to share. We tried to show a variety of things - people, animals, scenery, flowers, etc. The photos will appear in backwards order from how we saw them. I put dates on some but not all & didn't get them all labeled with descriptions. Rob knows much more about Machu Picchu than I do!! Maybe he can add more details tomorrow. But now I am off to bed so I hope the Easter bunny will come by & leave me some chocolate!

easter greetings to you and your kathy.
just stopped in to thank you for your advice on getting my page going. also wanted to thank you for visiting me.

Absolutely stunning Kathy and Rob, what beautiful photographs, thank you for sharing them x

Kathy - I took a look at your pictures on Flickr and they are just undescribable! What a trip that must have been. I really enjoyed looking at all of them. Those were really good pictures of the iguanas. Thanks for sharing all of the pictures with us.

Hello Kathy
re: the Avatar pic I sent you. If you try google, images, and type in playing tennis, the pic I used was the first one that came up.
www.rileyhospital.org is the link for it also.

The reason some pictures ie: your tennis ball, come up black after you have tried to re size it, is because some of the pictures have a copyright protection cover on them. So unfortunatly you can't use these and need to keep searching until you find one you can use.
I think Rose, has your email addy, would you mind if she passed it on to me, and I can send you some pictures via email to help you.

Good Luck!

Kathy - Great photos, I am with you, the sea lions are much cuter! We had a quiet Easter also. Have a good week!

Kathy, just finished viewing your wonderful photos from your tour. They certainly brought back memories. I especially loved seeing your views of Machu Picchu shrouded in mist - the classic view, but very different from the clear weather we experienced in May. I'm so glad you enjoyed your tour.

kathy, love your page! beautiful photos!! thanks for stopping by again. emmy and audrey and NOT twins, just dressed alike for valentines day, when i hav BOTH girls to watch on that paticular day. they are 5 weeks apart. emmy is the older one but audrey is the bigger one. they are a riot! we love them so very much. i am sending you some fresh utah snow for you to enjoy. oh and yes, we are expecting our first grandson in august. thanks again for stopping by,come again anytime!

Beautiful photos of your trip Kathy and Rob. Looks like you had a great time on your holiday.
Good luck with the Tennis today.

Kathy - your photos are amazing!I bet you would love to bring a baby seal home and it would have the run of your pool!
TY for the visit to my page ,my youbube is a bit different to say the least!

Oh and Kathy I forgot to leave you a pair of these fancy cowgirl boots!

Kathy,I can teach you how to ride but I think the line dancing I'll leave Sarah Beth to do that ...But I do have a cowgirl hat!

Hi Kathy, I tried sending you an email but it was returned, telling me that your account is over quota. You are one popular lady lol Please let me know when you have cleared a space in your 'in box' and I will resend.

What an absolutely fascinating batch of pictures from your trip. It looks like you had the greatest time.

My grandkids call me Paw Paw, and they call my wife Gamma Lynne. Thank you for your comments about my yard.

Hi Kathy. Did a quick run-through of your photos up to page 10. Some great shots. I'll come back when I have more time. The 'sunset over the Napo River' picture that you've posted is gorgeous!

Kathy - what an incredible picture!! Way to go.

Hi Kathy - I hope you have a safe trip to your daughters. I hope all goes well with her surgery. Thanks for your visit.

Hi Kathy,
Thanks for stopping by to admire my brood.
I love breastfeeding for the closeness not to mention the sheer convenience! But I must confess to being totally over the whole express first then feed using a bottle thing. It's taking me more than twice as long to do the whole feeding and I'm exhausted... only 2 and a half weeks to go. Enough whinging.
I hope everything has gone well with your daughter's operation.