Central Florida GTG - February 15-16

02/11/2008 08:19:13 PM · #26

Originally posted by rox_rox:

Originally posted by _eug:
As for me... I might have a license Monday.

Yippeee!!!

It's official! At the age of 35, Eugene is licensed to drive by the State of Florida.

Stay off the sidewalks. Keep your children off the front lawn. Fear for your lives...

02/11/2008 08:21:50 PM · #27

Originally posted by _eug:

Originally posted by rox_rox:

Originally posted by _eug:
As for me... I might have a license Monday.

Yippeee!!!

It's official! At the age of 35, Eugene is licensed to drive by the State of Florida.

Stay off the sidewalks. Keep your children off the front lawn. Fear for your lives...

AWESOME, Grats on getting your license!! So we can expect you sometime between the 14th and the 17th? :)

-dave

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM

02/11/2008 08:28:50 PM · #28

Originally posted by dknourek:

AWESOME, Grats on getting your license!! So we can expect you sometime between the 14th and the 17th? :)

That is still up in the air. I have a shoot on Saturday, but I'm looking. It'll be 6 hours of driving.

rox_rox

Canon EOS-20D

02/11/2008 09:11:50 PM · #29

Originally posted by _eug:

Originally posted by dknourek:
AWESOME, Grats on getting your license!! So we can expect you sometime between the 14th and the 17th? :)

That is still up in the air. I have a shoot on Saturday, but I'm looking. It'll be 6 hours of driving.

What time is your shoot over? If you come up in the night, you could stay all day Sunday. We can shuttle you over to the island if you get there before too many beers are consumed.

Here is the updated schedule:

Friday: Kennedy Space Center with

dknourek (definitely) and

rox_rox(maybe).

Friday Night: Camping on spoil island in Indian River Lagoon. If you like to retire early, there are usually plenty of campsites to allow you space away from those who like to stay up late around the bonfire.

Saturday: Pelican Island, The McLarty Treasure Museum and Sebastian Inlet with

dknourek,

rox_rox,

yakatme* &

yakatyou* (*confirmation requested).

Saturday Night: Camping on same spoil island.

Sunday: Boat excursions around the lagoon, looking for dolphins, stingrays, manatees, birds, women in bikinis and anything else photogenic. I will probably stay on the island and fish for our dinner. If I fail, we will have plenty of shrimp and other goodies.

Message edited by author 2008-02-11 21:12:56.

CorySmith

02/11/2008 10:19:28 PM · #30

ah i wish i could attend but i have some arrangements that take priority. have fun!

yakatme

Lytro Illum Light Field Digital

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED

02/12/2008 07:55:40 AM · #31

Originally posted by rox_rox:

yakatme* & yakatyou* (*confirmation requested).

Confirmed, plus one (yakather).

We will be there Saturday morning if not late Friday night. If we arrive Friday night then we will have to stay in a hotel since it will be too late to hassle with a late night trip to the island and camp setup. If we stay overnight in a hotel then we will be able to meet everyone else earlier than if we left Miami Saturday morning.

We will let you know later this week.

Message edited by author 2008-02-12 08:17:11.

Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM

02/12/2008 09:41:19 AM · #32

Originally posted by yakatme:

Originally posted by rox_rox:
yakatme* & yakatyou* (*confirmation requested).

Confirmed, plus one (yakather).

We will be there Saturday morning if not late Friday night. If we arrive Friday night then we will have to stay in a hotel since it will be too late to hassle with a late night trip to the island and camp setup. If we stay overnight in a hotel then we will be able to meet everyone else earlier than if we left Miami Saturday morning.

We will let you know later this week.

thats awesome, cant wait to meet yous :D

CaseyAllen

Canon EOS-30D

02/12/2008 11:28:19 AM · #33

Hey guys! I wish I could join you, but I have to fly all day Friday, and will be stuck volunteering at the Valkaria Air Fest on Saturday. I saw on your schedule that you're going down to Sebastian Inlet from Kennedy Space Center. Valkaria Airport is right on your way heading down to Sebastian Inlet. It was quite the turn out last year (especially the hot air balloon display at sunset), so hopefully this year will be even better. Anyway, if anyone is interested in stopping by, I would love to meet some of you.

rox_rox

Canon EOS-20D

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM

02/12/2008 06:51:41 PM · #34

Originally posted by yakatme:

Awesome! Hope you can drive up Friday night.

I will check out a hotel right down the road from the boat launch.

Originally posted by CaseyAllen:

Hey Casey,
Would love to meet you. Wish I had known about the air show when I was trying to think of things to do. Friday is Dave's day, so I'll leave it up to him to decide what he wants to do. I am working at least half of the day, so I'll be meeting up with him or dropping him off wherever he wants to go.

Lytro Illum Light Field Digital

02/12/2008 09:07:53 PM · #35

yeeeeeeeeeee haaaaaaaaaaaaaa one more SLEEP then I take off :D

Although tomorrow could be a little brutal for me lol, have to get up at 0530 go to work all day, get home finish packing got parents picking me up around 9pm to take me to the airport then from approx 0020 till 1300 on thurs on planes till I get in to Orlando :P hopefully Ill be able to nap on the planes lol and if not then I suggest buying stock in coffee and redbull as Ill be driving them up :P

well Ill be playing Friday by ear so to speak :)

yakatme

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED

02/15/2008 04:51:52 PM · #36

We can't make it.

I'm very sorry that we have to cancel at the last minute. I had to make the decision this morning but I couldn't get to a computer to let you all know sooner than now.

I'll PM you, Roxanne, with my excuses. For now I can only say that today ended up being the culmination of an extremely rough week on top of a rough two months. The loose ends that I said that I had to clear up to be able to make it in the first place came totally unraveled and I have to tend to them over the weekend.

Again, I am very sorry to have to cancel our trip to meet up with you all.

Roxanne, I told you that we shouldn't call this a GTG considering how nobody shows up when we do so. I just never thought that I would be a 'no-show' one day.

Gracious

02/15/2008 06:44:46 PM · #37

This is the first op I've had to post again. We won't be able to make it. So sorry...would love to meet you all.

02/19/2008 12:55:57 PM · #38

Hey Robert, no problem on the no show. Roxy filled me in and hopefully next time we can all meet and Im hoping to bring my wife also.

I cant say enough about Roxanne and her husband, they were both great. They took me on some awesome tours up the local rivers and seen some of the beautiful local terrain. The wild life also was sweet to see even more so in their natural environments like manatees, dolphins, gators, armadillos and a whole array of gorgeous birds.

Being the only place Ive really traveled up to this last weekend was down the Oregon coast and LA and San Diego, Florida was a real treat and I loved and cherished every moment of being down there. And like I was saying earlier Roxanne and AJ were also awesome and I appreciate everything they did with me and the places they had shown me which without them most likely would have never seen the things I saw.

Anyway Thanks again Roxanne to you and your husband, cant wait till we can get together again in the future :)

hopefully I can get some pics up soon also :)

-dave

02/19/2008 02:30:24 PM · #39

Anyone heard from the Crazy Peruvian?

02/22/2008 09:58:19 AM · #40

got a few images up last night, came home to an insane amount of work which was compounded by something stupid I did and ended up taking tues and wed off eating tylenol3 and perkaset every 4 hours lol, anyway not getting in to that one, here are a few pics Ive edited so far.

02/22/2008 10:12:24 AM · #41

Originally posted by dknourek:

Did you go sidewalk ice skating?

02/22/2008 10:22:24 AM · #42

Originally posted by _eug:

Originally posted by dknourek:
got a few images up last night, came home to an insane amount of work which was compounded by something stupid I did and ended up taking tues and wed off eating tylenol3 and perkaset every 4 hours lol, anyway not getting in to that one, here are a few pics Ive edited so far.

Did you go sidewalk ice skating?

No if the embarrassing truth must be told, I wear shorts like once or twice a year and decided to go out in shorts one of the days I was out in the boat with Rox and initially forgot to use sun screen until a couple hours later, well long story short I landed in Calgary and went straight to the hospital as my legs were in an immense amount of pain not just the surface but it was way deeper in to the muscle, and they had swollen so much that my legs just ran in to my feet and you couldn't see my ankles at all, so because of the severity of the burns the doctors had me alternating between taking two tylenol3 and a perkaset every 4 hours and to stay off of my feet...

I have no one to blame but myself but IMO it was all worth it being able to spend time in FL with Rox and her husband and getting an almost behind the scenes tour of FL :)

-dave

02/22/2008 10:26:41 AM · #43

Ewwwwwww.

Get to recovering!