Dontcha love how people *groan* when someone says "Hey, let me show you pictures from our vacation!"
I'm not one of those people. I looove looking at people's vacation pictures. I'm a travel freak, so I like to see where people have been!
And of course I love to take my own vacation pictures - it's a huge part of the trip for me. It lets me capture that place, and my family in that time and place, forever. So many details of so many trips I would have forgotten if I didn't have pictures of it.
I probably would have forgotten that when we took the kids to Colorado in May 2005, we didn't even *think* to bring gloves. Don't even know if we owned any. Then we found ourselves heading out for a trip up to tundra levels in Rocky Mountain National Park where we had the real possibility of playing in snow - something my kids had never done before! But since it was May, even the stores out there didn't have winter clothes - so we went to a hardware store and bought gardening gloves! That detail might have been lost if I hadn't had pictures of them making snowballs, wearing bright pink and blue gloves with flowers and ivy on them :). See, that's fun stuff to remember! (And, um, we repeated the gardening glove trick when a trip to Yosemite last May also yielded snow opportunities.)
So you can show me your vacation pictures. I'll enjoy it. Just to play fair, here's a few of mine. We went to Utah last month and visited Zion National Park. Gloves were NOT necessary. Heat index was over 100.
Cactus flowers along a trail.
Me, headed down a trail.
My husband, watching our kids work their way down a steep cliff. They're great little hikers :)
One of many cool lizards we spotted.
Gorgeous sandstone cliffs.
I love seeing the different creatures when we travel. We saw hundreds of frogs like this.
This is called 'The Subway', and was carved out by wind and water. The whole area was very slick, and there were many pools like the one in this picture - and they were 4-6 feet deep, and about 50*. We were very careful with our footing.