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Vacations!
It's vacation time around the Tucker household and we have been on the road and will be on the road the rest of this week. I've started a new page that will be all about vacations! Visit the new vacations page and I'll keep you updated on where we are and what we are doing. This is also a great way to keep in touch with our girls while we are away. They love seeing us and finding out what we are doing. Hop on over to the vacation page and see my updates from Cancun!! Have a great summer. Labels: Family, Fun Events, Road Trips, Summer
California Dreamin
Do you have any far out, probably never going to happen, type dreams? I think I have a beach gene somewhere in my blood. Although I have never surfed my dream job would be to own a surf shop on the beach. I would hang out all day and enjoy the surf and sun. I might even continue my cartooning from right inside the surf shop.
The photo above is my first visit to the California coast. I was walking along Pismo Beach watching two surfers preparing to ride the waves. Hot Wife and I took a trip from LA up the coast to the wine country north of San Francisco for a family wedding.
I have to admit I was a bit shocked by how cold the water actually was. I think I would need to set up shop a little further south or maybe even across the country in Florida.
Anyway, that's my "pipe" dream. LOL. So watch for a Shaggy Duck Surf Shop coming to a beach near you one of these days. You might see a sneaker wearing cartoonist working on a Mac while swinging in a hammock.
Labels: Curtis Tucker, Road Trips
The Lion King - OKC, May 2009
Grandma Betty bought tickets for the kids and grand-kids to see the Lion King in OKC. The girls really loved the show. Below are a few pics, picture taking was not allowed so I snuck a few iPhone photos for memories. We treated the girls to Build-A-Bear and the Cheesecake Factory afterwards. 
Labels: Daughters, Family, Fun Events, Road Trips
I Saw A Naked Dude, Actually Two.
 As a family we've been on several vacations and out of town weekends. A few weeks ago we stayed at one of our favorite downtown OKC hotels. I was remembering back several months when we had stayed there and I had noticed two young kids looking out the window of the hotel across the street. These two kids had binoculars and they were scanning our hotel for open windows. They caught sight of me just about the same time I spotted them. I could see them laughing and talking to each other. I waved and they waved back. You could tell they were pretty happy that they had connected with someone across the way. Jump forward a few months and I found myself looking out at that same hotel again. I wasn't sure what I was expecting to see across the street but it sure wasn't what I saw. There standing at the wide open window was this nude dude! He was as naked as a jay bird and was putting on his deodorant. I started cracking up and my family ran to the window to see what I was laughing about. About that time he came back to the window and did a few stretching moves. Luckily my daughters couldn't find him in all of the dozens of windows. After a few minutes he disappeared and my hot wife spotted an old fat dude sticking his ugly mug out of another window. He too, was unclothed. What a hoot! The lesson to be learned is to watch what you do in your hotel room while the window is open. You never know who might be watching. Labels: Family, funny moment, Road Trips
Family Vacation
Remember those great old family vacations? You know the ones where you would load the kids into the station wagon and you'd head off for a ten hour drive with no air conditioning. I remember laying on the floorboard in the back of the car on the "hump". It was the best place in the world to nap. It was warm and there was a steady hum that was very soothing. Nobody had to wear a seat belt and you were free to roam the car. You'd drive until you wore out and you'd stop at the next motel. There were maybe three suitcases and you had everything you could want. Today's vacations are so much more complicated. There's the planning, the reservations, the mileage and the over abundance of suitcases that barely fit into the one ton SUV. We are currently on vacation in Breckenridge, Colorado. Our girls are skiing for the first time and they went up the lift and skied down on their first day. It was so much fun watching them cruise down the slope hanging onto our ski poles. All is well and I will post a few photos from Breckenridge in case you have never been here. Labels: Family, Memories, Road Trips
Vegas Baby! '08
It's been almost exactly a year since the Hot Wife and I ran off to Las Vegas. That trip was for nothing more than site seeing, eating, shopping and hanging out. If you have not been to Vegas or it has been a long time you might find some fun photos in this bunch. Vegas has come a long way since the old Elvis days but if you look hard enough you can still find many of the old strip reminders. Being a kid of the seventies I really wish I could have seen an Elvis show in Las Vegas. While there, our morning exercise was to walk from the Venetian, almost in the middle of the strip, to either end of the strip. In two days of morning walking we pretty much walked from one end of the strip to the other. Many of these photos are what you would see walking along the strip and many things in between. Las Vegas 2008 Photo Album(Just click on a photo to move to the next)Labels: Fun Events, Hot Wife, Photo, Road Trips
These Ain't Our Parents Polaroids Anymore
Remember back in the day when you wanted a photo? We're talking back when I was a kid, in the 70's. We'd either pull out our slim, black 110 camera or if we were lucky we'd pull out the bulky Polaroid Instant Camera. Taking pictures has come a long way baby. As kids we could get instant Polaroids with the funky colors and funny border around them like the New Years 2009 photo above or we would have to send our 110 or 35mm film off to be developed. A week or two later it would return and we would gleefully rip open our envelope to see our dozen grand photos. If you were like my friends and I, you would find a stack full of blurry photos mixed in with a few shots of your friends with their heads cut off. At that age it didn't matter much, that the color was bad, the composition was horrible and you just shelled out eight bucks for twelve bad pictures. Fast forward to 2009 and my how things have changed. Polaroid camera you say? 110 film you ask? Those days are long gone. Today we have micro cameras that take pictures big enough for posters and they're digital! That means you get to take as many pictures as you want and you can delete the bad shots. Wow! What a deal. No more film, no more waiting, no more photo albums... what!! No more photo albums? That's right. With the ease of today's photography many people are accumulating thousands of digital pictures without ever taking the time to get them developed and stuck into photo albums. We've all got a zillion pictures but we can't ever look at them. Wrong! Read on... I'm guilty of not getting digital photos developed and now have a good thousand pictures taking up space on my computer. Today there are great sites like Flickr and Facebook that allow us to post our photos online. This is a great way to share photos with people a world away. I've also recently discovered a great software called Jalbum. This software builds your albums for you and helps you upload them to their site or your own site. It's great! I recently uploaded the photos from our 2008 Disney World trip. They are now online for the family and the world to see. Take a look and see what we were doing exactly one year ago today. Just click on the main photo and it will transition to the next. Enjoy! The Tucker 2008 Disney World TripLabels: Daughters, Family, Fun Events, Hot Wife, Memories, Parenting, Photo, Road Trips
2008 The Year That Was
Wow! Between a mom in the hospital, a family with the flu and the holidays, I have not been able to get much updating done. But, I'm back! I thought I would do a quick review of 2008 for my girls to look back on. For the Tucker family, 2008 was a great travel year and we have much to be thankful for. Disney World Trip - I think the trip to Disney World had to be the highlight of the year. The girls had their first plane ride and spent several fun filled days with the princesses of Disney. Marco Island - During our Florida vacation we were able to visit Grandma and Papa at Marco Island. The girls had their first trip to the beach and enjoyed the plane ride back to Oklahoma. Las Vegas - Vegas baby! Hot Wife and I spent several fun filled days in Vegas, staying at the Venetian. We traveled with another couple and spent all of our time eating, shopping and walking the strip. The girls spent quality time with Grandma and Papa. Cancun - Hot Wife turned 40 and headed to Cancun on an all girl trip. Her and her good friends had a blast and I was able to spend several days of quality time with my girls. School - We made the decision to leave the girls at their Montessori school. Our oldest moved upstairs into the "older" kids class and our youngest began extended day. We toured the local public school but just couldn't see a good enough reason to make the switch. Activities - Our girls spent more time in tennis lessons and tennis clinic. They were both in dance and gymnastics and both also performed in the big dance production. They both improved in their piano lessons and were part of a piano recital. The girls dropped gymnastics and switched to tumbling later in the year. Hot Wife and I played more tennis and I joined the men's doubles league. We all spent many days at the club pool and the girls continued their swimming lessons. Hot Wife and I did not get any golf in together although I did play a couple of 18 hole rounds, the most I've ever played in one year. Our girls ran in their first mini run, a school fundraiser. They enjoyed their first trip to Tulsa and we got to stay in a hotel. Events - I started this cool blog. The girls both lost the same top front tooth. We made it to our 6th anniversary in our house. We put on a new roof. We saw the closing of our club house for reconstruction. Granny Ann went to the hospital for surgery. Papa had knee surgery. Cousin Skylar had a baby girl. All in all it was a great year and set a high standard which we will attempt to match in 2009. Labels: Daughters, Fun Events, Hot Wife, Memories, Road Trips
Wasten Away Again In That Soonerville
  I showed my true devotion to my hot wife by making a second trip to Soonerville in Norman. We are a true house divided seeing as how I attended OSU and she attended OU. Both teams are ranked in the top 10 for the first time in years which makes the Bedlam game something to really look forward to. But first, the Cowboys have to get passed Texas which beat OU. This is gonna be good! Here we are doing a little pre-game at the Mont and then a photo taken from our upper deck seats of the "Red Sea". Labels: Hot Wife, Memories, Road Trips
Another Football Road Trip
These pictures were taken along the way on our latest road trip. They are taken with an iPhone and then emailed to an address set up on this blog. Only moments after each picture is taken they show up on this page. We started doing this because our daughters get a little sad every time we leave home. This way they get to track what we are doing during the day and we get to send them little messages. This has been a real help in allowing us to leave town while keeping the girls happy. They especially love the photo that comes through saying we found them a surprise. 
At Starbucks on our way to OU/Kansas.
At The Mont in Norman for lunch. 
Hot Wife with Sooner Swirl. 
A little shopping in Campus Corner. 
The walk to the stadium. 
Our cool seats. High up in the shade. 
Dinner at Cheesecake to watch the 4th quarter. 
Hot Wife supporting her team. 
The End. Labels: Dining, Fun Events, Hot Wife, Road Trips
You Never Know Who's Looking
 (Click for larger view - see inset)A few weeks back we had a big get together in OKC with the couples in our tennis crew. We did a night on the town in Bricktown and spent time at a bowling restaurant. The next morning I opened our window at the downtown hotel and started taking a few photos of the area with my iPhone. As I was taking pictures and spying on the people walking down below I noticed I, myself, was being watched. I spotted two kids across the street in the adjacent hotel very high up. They looked like a brother and sister pair and were also spying on the people down below. They had an advantage I did not, they had binoculars! As soon as I noticed that they had spotted me I waved. You could tell they were thrilled and both waved back and passed the binoculars back and forth. The lesson, watch what you do in your hotel room with a curtain open. You just never know who might be watching. Labels: funny moment, Memories, Road Trips
The Pajama Game
These are iPhone pics at the Civic Center in OKC. They were sent from my iPhone and published only moments later to this blog. Hot wife and I were given tickets to see The Pajama Game, which turned out to be a very good musical. If you have not been to the OKC Civic Center in a few years you are missing out on a great place to see a show.
I did check the old iPhone a few times to get OU/Texas scores. Sportacular is an awesome sports application for the iPhone.
Labels: Road Trips
OU/Texas at BJ's in OKC
Hot wife and I ran down to OKC to see a musical. Before the show we stopped at BJ's to watch the big OU/Texas game. Bj's has huge TV and did have the sound on. A great place to watch a game and good chips and salsa. Labels: Dining, Road Trips
Guess where I am
The hot wife and I were offered free tickets to see the #1 football team in the country. One of the couples in our tennis crew couldn't make the game. We accepted the deal and sped off to Norman, Oklahoma to watch a good old fashioned beating of TCU. The photo above was taken with my iPhone and sent seconds later to this blog. Click on it for a bigger view.
Labels: Road Trips
Two Girls, An Amusement Park & A Lake
 Hot Mama and I took the girls out of town to visit their Uncle, Aunt and four cousins down south. We did a little shopping and spent day one at a nearby amusement park. It was above 100 degrees but the kids were troopers and our daughters rode several roller coasters and loved the log ride.  I remember my best friend and I riding the log ride at Six Flags, always trying to see how many times in a row we could ride it. The wetter we got the happier we were. Now a days, I avoid the log ride at all costs. I don't cope well with the whole chaffing thing and the smell of musty clothes. Eee-Gads! Am I really typing that? I guess I really am a grown up? Dang! Here is daughter #1 riding the fiberglass tiger. She did great but I almost lost her on the Wildcat roller coaster. She is so thin she started to vibrate under the bar holding her in. I grabbed her just in time but the fear of flying off the ride had already gripped her. It took a few minutes to calm her down and get her excited about riding more death defying mechanical terror machines.  Daughter #2 had her first trip to the lake, her first boat ride, her first attempt at skiing and her first ride on a water weenie. She actually was very brave up until the moment she nose dived on her first ski attempt and came up with a snout full of water. After that she was toast. (yes, that's me floating in the water, some help I was) We did get her on the water weenie also but she screamed the entire time that it was time to stop. All in all it was a terrific weekend full of family fun and adventure. Thanks for the memories girls! Labels: Daughters, Memories, Road Trips
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