Sunset Beach (Captiva, Fla.) is where I have spent the second week of February ever since I can remember. This beach holds many memories which include sand castle building contests, chasing seagulls, long walks, golf cart rides and searching for sand dollars.
Pictures may be worth thousands of words, but these pictures are worth a million memories. In this blog post I have posted landscape pictures of places that have a special significance to me.
This post will be different. There will be more pictures and fewer words. Each of these landscape pictures represents many of the best memories I have ever had. This post will be more of a photo album/ scrapbook rather than a lengthy blog.
This was taken during possibly my favorite vacation ever. For my grandparent's 50th anniversary, our entire family took a trip to Hawaii to celebrate. It was probably the happiest I have ever been in my life.
This was also taken during the same Hawaii vacation as the picture above. I chose to include this picture of the Na Pali Coast because it is the prettiest view I have ever overlooked. It blows me away. God is good, isn't he?
At first glance, this picture may seem insignificant. However, to me and to the other members of the Westminster Cross Country Team, this was not only a place of intense competition, sweat, long morning workouts and a muddy winning conference; it was also a place of unity. The Westminster Cross Country team of 2009 was the best team I had ever been on. We truly came together as a team and a group of close friends. This location in the picture is Westminster Park, home of our team, races and practices.
Being from South Carolina, when I wake up and look out my window and see snow on the ground I know it's going to be an exciting day. It's not often I get to see snow on the ground in my city of Tega Cay. Whenever it snows, I immediately go and wake up my younger sister Courtney. We quickly pull on our bibs and ski jacket, grab the sleds and hike through the snow over to my best friend Abbie's house to take advantage of the golf course behind her house. There are so many memories sledding on the hill, seeing how many people we can fit in one sled and watching the wipeouts. This picture was taken from my window, which overlooks Lake Wylie.
This picture was taken in upstate New York in Lake George. I have spent around two to three weeks here ever summer since I can remember. It's a place where I get to meet up with my mom's side of the family and all my cousins on her side. There are always people around and I was never lonely growing up spending my summers here. While most people only know their first cousins, I know up to my seventh and even eighth cousins here.
This was taken on the over 100-year-old electric boat named The Saint Louis (W.K. Bixby, my great great great grandfather, was from St. Louis), at 6:00 a.m on Lake George to catch the sunrise. On this lake, my cousins have spent countless hours jumping off cliffs, out boathouse windows, flipping off diving boards and barely bouncing on water trampolines. We have learned to ski, wakeboard and even surf behind the good old (but not so trusty) Boston Whaler. We have spent time hiking to waterfalls across the lake and just sitting on the black sand beach building sandcastles with our little cousins. I talk more about my Lake George and the history that is behind it in my family portrait's blog post.
I was fortunate enough to spend my last spring break on a cruise. It was my favorite spring break ever. This picture was taken as we were leaving our last island, St. Thomas, and heading back to Puerto Rico from where we originally departed.
This was taken as I was deboarding the ship into the beautiful island of Dominica, which is also the Island where we had the most fun. Our excursions that day includes a beautiful drive, great eatery, tubing down rivers and snorkeling.
To look at more landscape pictures that hold special significance to me check out my gallery!
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