Visiting Cousin Felicity
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Wakeup Call hotel at West Virginia's Pipestem Resort State Park -- Lerona, West Virginia, USA -- http://regex.info/blog/
DMC-TS3 — 1/60 sec, f/3.3, ISO 200 — map & image datanearby photos
Wakeup Call
hotel at West Virginia's Pipestem Resort State Park

We just got back from a long weekend visiting my brother Alan and his family in Charlotte, North Carolina. On the way down from Ohio where we're spending the summer at my folk's, we stopped in West Virginia for some river rafting and a night at the hotel at Pipestem Resort State Park.

In the morning, we opened the curtains to find a friend outside...

“Good Morning” -- Pipestem Resort State Park -- Lerona, West Virginia, USA -- http://regex.info/blog/
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“Good Morning”

The hotel had a pool, so we tried out my new Panasonic TS3 waterproof camera. It was too dim for good results with this camera (and frankly, being used to a semi-pro SLR, most everything about a point-n-shoot is painful for me), but someone was able to snap a shot of me launching Anthony from my shoulders...

Launch -- Pipestem Resort State Park -- Lerona, West Virginia, USA -- http://regex.info/blog/
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Launch

After another four or so hours of driving, we finally arrived at Alan and Natalie's house....

Alan and Titi Titi is a month shy of 2½ -- Charlotte, North Carolina, USA -- http://regex.info/blog/
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Alan and Titi
Titi is a month shy of 2½
Introduction to Star Wars® LEGO™ -- Charlotte, North Carolina, USA -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
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Introduction to Star Wars® LEGO™
Titi's “Laptop” -- Charlotte, North Carolina, USA -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
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Titi's “Laptop”
Breakfast Together -- Wilora Landing Road -- Charlotte, North Carolina, USA -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
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Breakfast Together

Alan had his foot in a cast from some recent surgery, but the rest of us went swimming a couple of times over the weekend, and that's where the camera got most of its use...

Swimming -- Charlotte, North Carolina, USA -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
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Swimming
Natalie and Titi -- Charlotte, North Carolina, USA -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
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Natalie and Titi
Being Silly off the diving board -- Charlotte, North Carolina, USA -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
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Being Silly
off the diving board
Lots of Bubbles -- Charlotte, North Carolina, USA -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
DMC-TS3 — 1/320 sec, f/5.3, ISO 100 — map & image datanearby photos
Lots of Bubbles
Sorta' Interesting (?) -- Charlotte, North Carolina, USA -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
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Sorta' Interesting (?)
A Bit Odd -- Charlotte, North Carolina, USA -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
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A Bit Odd
More Silliness spinning backwards off the diving board -- Charlotte, North Carolina, USA -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
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More Silliness
spinning backwards off the diving board
More Bubbles -- Charlotte, North Carolina, USA -- http://regex.info/blog/
DMC-TS3 — 1/500 sec, f/3.3, ISO 100 — map & image datanearby photos
More Bubbles
Waterslide -- Charlotte, North Carolina, USA -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
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Waterslide
Natalie Exiting the Waterslide -- Charlotte, North Carolina, USA -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
DMC-TS3 — 1/500 sec, f/5.9, ISO 100 — map & image datanearby photos
Natalie Exiting the Waterslide
View From The Bottom I was waiting upside-down at the bottom of the 9-foot pool -- Charlotte, North Carolina, USA -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
DMC-TS3 — 1/800 sec, f/3.3, ISO 100 — map & image datanearby photos
View From The Bottom
I was waiting upside-down at the bottom of the 9-foot pool
Touching the 9' Bottom -- Charlotte, North Carolina, USA -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
DMC-TS3 — 1/320 sec, f/3.3, ISO 100 — map & image datanearby photos
Touching the 9' Bottom
Water Ninja -- Charlotte, North Carolina, USA -- Copyright 2011 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
DMC-TS3 — 1/400 sec, f/3.4, ISO 100 — map & image datanearby photos
Water Ninja

On the last evening, I went to bed but Alan and Anthony stayed up playing games until the Wii hours of the morning... Anthony didn't come to bed until 2am!.

“Perfect” busting some moves while playing Michael Jackson Experience photo by Alan Friedl -- Charlotte, North Carolina, USA -- Copyright 2011 Alan Friedl
“Perfect”
busting some moves while playing Michael Jackson Experience
photo by Alan Friedl

We'd ended up staying an extra day to visit the pool a second time, so we didn't stop on the way back, making the 495 miles in an even eight hours.


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