Animals

I finally got to do a little in-camera editing of some of my pics from the Zoo. I have yet to venture out into my Adobe Photoshop, but I hope to do that in the near future. I just thought these pics turned out great. My animal subjects were really handsome...well, maybe not the alligator. Ick.

(Scott took this one...props to you, honey!).

Zoo Stuff...Without Animals

We really did see a ton of cool animals at the Audubon Zoo. However, I won't post pics of them yet. I want to tinker with some of the pics I took before I post them to make sure they are as awesome-looking as possible. In the interim, why not stay with the train theme, eh?

After we arrived in New Orleans on the Amtrak, on Saturday we took a trolley to the zoo. Once at the zoo, what should we expect to see, but...ANOTHER TRAIN. After 3 hours of putting Levi off for a train ride, we rode this one. I mean, how many train rides does one kid need, right? A LOT, apparently...

I really liked this shot of Levi and his daddy peering over the deck at the many, MANY alligators in the Louisiana swamp exhibit. Pics to follow. But, ick.

Levi riding a big statue of a lion...

Crawling on the circular bench around the elephant fountain (pics to follow)...

And just one to capture the little glimmer of fatigue we saw after we'd been there for a while. I really wished they made "pregnant mommy" sized wagons, but Scott was secretly glad they didn't. :)

New Orleans

I haven't been a very good blogger lately. I confess. We have spent most of this week recovering from our long weekend in New Orleans and all the fun we (i.e. Levi) had. :) Here are a few pics of the train ride on the way down.

Waiting patiently for the train to reach the platform...

Staring in amazement out the window while watching for more trains. :)

Still on task nearly an hour later.

And...crashing after almost 3 hours of intense, train-riding fun. And we hadn't even arrived in the Big Easy yet...!

I Love My New Camera...

It's a little confusing. Daunting, even. But I am so proud to be able to capture expressions like this.

And smiles like this.

And crazy, rotten little dogs like this.

Thank you to my sweet hubbie for caving in and getting me the D90. I'll make you proud. Promise. :)

This is how we started out our Halloween festivities on Saturday...with Levi bucking his costume. But it quickly got better, when...

we compromised on Scooby's collar. I mean, Scooby doesn't really NEED a collar, right? Right.

We ditched the hat after 50 or so trips down the slide and went on the hayride. :)

Tons of fun jumping...

And tons of fun on the slide!

Tons of Halloween fun!!!