Just got on my computer for the first time in almost 3 days!
Too tired to post all my fabulous pics from the past couple of days, but we'll start with a few from Georgia's (Jeff & Toni's little girl) 4th birthday party on Saturday afternoon...
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And here is one from Sunday afternoon. My parents had our family up to the lake, along with my mom's cousin Vicki, her husband Eric, and their three girls, Nicolet, Gabriella and Isabelle. Here are the girls with Annika!
I just discovered the coolest Program in the WORLD.......Google Earth!!! For those of you who do not know about it, it is a virtual 3-D earth that is composed of pictures taken from a satellite. You can pinpoint any location in the World (by giving an address or city and state or country) and zoom down to that location to see an aerial view. I found my house, my parents', family in AZ, the schools I work at, etc. It gives you the exact coordinates of each location and you can "mark" specific locations so that you can go back and find them at a later time. The only drawbacks I have found is that you can't zoom super close to any spot without losing some resolution, and the pictures were taken like 2-3 years ago, so it does not show what the earth looks like currently. New Orleans looks pre-Katrina. Also, you can print or e-mail images, but you cannot save them as jpg files, which is a bummer. I was about to show ya'll the view of my neighborhood! It is overall a very cool program! Here you can download it for free as a program. Try it out and let me know what you think and where you travel to.......so far I have seen the pyramids in Egypt, The Statue of Liberty, Paris France and Barcelona Spain. It is also great for directions and other points of Interest. Have fun!
THREE DAYS??!?? WOW! Im impressed! LOL...great pics! Love the flower!How long has it been up there?
Posted by: Adrienne | August 22, 2006 at 08:45 AM
my boss loves google earth...
he made me download it but I've yet to look anything up . . . guess I should get on that! :)
Posted by: sarah | August 22, 2006 at 11:37 AM
oh man we did that right after the hurricane so i could get some visual on where i grew up and my mom's house and the devestation was horrible and i couldn't get to her because all our bridges were blown away....love all the pics...
Posted by: greta | August 22, 2006 at 01:01 PM
You always find all the coolest things on line!
Posted by: Maria | August 22, 2006 at 02:04 PM
Hey! I haven't done Google Eart but I do maps on Yahoo! which is really similar.
I have traveled to all your places plus Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona, San Francisco, Taj Mahal, Great Wall o' China and many others! What a great way to pass the time!
Lori
Posted by: Lori Gerten | August 22, 2006 at 05:51 PM
Well I checked out Google Earth! Way awesome! I just wasted 35 precious minutes looking at the world. Ok so wasted is not the best term!
AWESOME! Thanks!
Posted by: Lori Gerten | August 23, 2006 at 12:23 AM