D&D Adventuring Fun! – Despite being a man down, we still managed to get ourselves into a world of trouble wandering around the Shadowfell, but hey, any session that ends with the party still being alive on that plane is actually a pretty good one, am I right?!
Saturday Studios Fun! – Spent the day bumming around Disney with Sara as planned – hit a lot of old favorites, not to mention got two passes at Toy Story Mania, plus we watched Fantasmic, where I apparently got some pretty sweet looking photos of the finale! Looking forward to posting those shortly over on that Disney site of mine…
Puppy Pool Party Fun! – Cleo had one of her brothers over to celebrate their birthday, as you can see quite evidently below with their joyful romps in Cleo’s new pool! And people say that we spoil our puppy… 
Good times, good times…
No, no – not those lions.
But these ones are still pretty incredible, too!
The teaser for the video is pretty cool, but what really blew me away were some of the super-close-up stills that this little robot captured before the lions decided to use it as their play toy! I love the ones of the male lion gnawing down on the remains of some carcass, in particular – beautiful resolution, and a shot that a photographer would probably have to be absolutely insane to try and actually capture in person in the field!
It reminds me of one of those documentaries that Disney did recently in that nature series of their – I’ve honestly never actually watched any of them because I don’t really have much desire to watch 90 minutes of just any random nature documentary, but if they’re anything like this…
Today they’re doing something a little special over at Disney World – the Magic Kingdom is staying open for 24 hours straight.
The latest I think I’ve ever still been in the park is maybe 1 or 2am, during the summer months combined with Extra Magic Hour Evenings when the place is sometimes open as late as 3:00am. It tends to really clear out that late, with the occasional exception of the headlining attractions, so we just never felt the need to stay until the very last minute because we had already ridden pretty much everything we had our hearts set on well before that anyways … but I still would’ve liked to attend this year, if only the 29th hadn’t been on such an inconvenient day right in the middle of the week!
The next leap year will have February 29 falling on a Monday in 2016, but 2020′s will be on a Saturday, so if we can’t make the arrangements to schedule it in advance in four years, I suppose I could always just wait until I’m 40?! 
Woof! I don’t even want to think about that just yet, so here’s a pretty picture of the castle instead…
By my clock, it should be turning this shade over there just about any time now! For all those lucky enough to be running around the park another 10 hours from now – enjoy it! Here’s hoping that maybe I’ll be able to tag along next time… 
I just love this picture I took when I was out on my walk with Cleo a little while ago. Believe it or not, I actually found this guy just hanging out in somebody’s driveway - it’s actually not the first time I’ve found a crayfish in our neighborhood, and I’m still fairly baffled because in either situation it’s not like there were any ponds or drainage ditches anywhere even remotely close by that he could’ve originated from or anything!
Very weird, and I especially enjoyed the final pose that I caught on camera – this was after a good minute and a half of Cleo trying to make nice with him by way of her mouth, so I guess I can kinda see why he might’ve been just a wee bit defensive at that point…
Ok, ok – I swear I’ll be done after this one, but I just couldn’t resist – it’s a wonder these dogs didn’t rip each other limb from limb over the last week…
“I’ll bite your face off and spit down your neck!!!”
“Lend me your ear!”
“Stop biting my mouth!” “No, you stop biting my mouth!”
“Ooof! Forgot there was a door there…” “Me too…”
I’m pretty sure Mom is buried under that big, old pile of dogs somewhere…
“Come on, let me tell you ’bout my best friend…”
Ok, I guess I can do just one more post!
Really, after finding these photos of dog and baby amongst my other road pics, I’m not sure if I’d be able to forgive myself if I didn’t post these! Technically some were taken by my wife, and some of the really nice looking ones are more likely than not by my sister with her fancy-dancy digital SLR, but regardless of photographer all are 110% adorable…
Come on, say it with me – on the count of 3 … “Awwwww…”
Being there during the daylight hours also finally gave me a chance to take some pictures of the new displays around the updated LEGO store…
It’s kind of hard to hold a candle to the Sleeping Beauty scene that’s literally as tall as the building next to it, but I think my favorite might just be the LEGO Buzz Lightyear and Woody because I kinda like how they’re the actual minifig versions from the Toy Story sets that came out last year.
We spent some time over at Disney World yesterday for the final day of the Festival of the Masters – a huge art show at Downtown Disney. Anyways, I thought that this photo turned out kinda neat – sort of a 1920s version of this bright and colorful photo that I shot earlier this spring…
I caught this view just as I was getting home the other night and literally ran to find the camera before the sun disappeared completely. Probably would’ve been nicer without all of the SUVs and lamp posts, but what can you do?
We didn’t end up getting any even remotely decent fireworks pics from the 4th, as we were pretty far away from all of the action, but a few nice photos still came out of the sky as the sun went down. The body of water would be Hillsborough Bay (Tampa Bay is the area between Tampa & St. Petersburg, so this is the area between South Tampa and the rest of Florida), which means that the sunset was actually happening behind us, making for some pretty neat colors in the clouds in front of us as they caught the reflections of the actual sunset itself.
