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DMC-TS3 — ¹/60 sec, f/3.3, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby 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...

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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...

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Launch

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

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Alan and Titi
Titi is a month shy of 2½

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Introduction to Star Wars® LEGO™

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Titi's “Laptop”

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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...

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Swimming

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Natalie and Titi

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Being Silly
off the diving board

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Lots of Bubbles

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Sorta' Interesting (?)

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A Bit Odd

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More Silliness
spinning backwards off the diving board

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More Bubbles

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Waterslide

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Natalie Exiting the Waterslide

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View From The Bottom
I was waiting upside-down at the bottom of the 9-foot pool

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Touching the 9' Bottom

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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

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.