What do all of these have in common? Movie producers Claire and Fiona, and the video record feature of Claire’s digital camera. All assembled in iMovie. Try out the higher resolution (720p) version here.

Shipped off Arlington Journey 2008 DVDs #6 an #7 to Carol & Bob and Joe & Sandy today. Still need to make one for the Stonegaters. I am going to publish the videos on youtube.com/fishbackfilms. Have this first one up. (See sound volume button.)

#1 Mom

#2 Nicole

#3 Grant & Jami

#4 Ted

#5 Margie & Jack

#6 Carol & Bob

#7 Joe & Sandy

JC:

Itchy jellyfish bites

Flounder in net at night

Kitchen with a couch

Toe comets (glowing sand)

Parking scooters behind Chu’s (store) and sneaking through

Putting dead crab in crab hole

<a href="http://mac.fiveforks.com/gallery/v/stonegate/tybee-bay-2008/IMG_0494.jpg.html"Visit to Jack and Margie

Super cold candy store

New parking meters

Girlscout geocache scare

MCC:

Thunder and Lightning…no rain

Watching TV while eating dinner

Staying up with Kelly watching TV

Kitty Cats outside he balcony

Traveling to Bird Island in water

Dolphin shows outside the condo

Meeting Justin (14 year old boy with Cerebral Palsy)

Scooters

Tiny Condo

Big boats crossing the bay

Only one that didn’t get stung/bit

Passing the condo we stayed on spring vacation (good times. good times)

KEC:

i got sick one day

floating around bend and walking back.

and that’s all

you guys basically covered everything else

KMC:

swimming at night and seeing the stars

looking for Sandra Bullock

finding John Cougar

sleepy racoons in a dumpster

The winning shirt design. The vote was 12 to 6.

Let’s tally the votes here. You can comment, or I’ll just post results as they come in:

Yellow Haze

Design your own custom t-shirts at Dyetub.com

Green

Design your own custom t-shirts at Dyetub.com

(Note: Danny drove up to Athens sunday evening to lobby the Park Ave. voters for the green party. He said he was confident he could persuade Michael and Fiona. Investigations continue.)

Tabulation: G = 12 ; Y = 6

Julie: Y

Jeb: Y

Kathy: G

Nicole: G

Danny: G (maybe Irish green?)

Kelly: G

Claire: G

Carol: Y

Bob: Y

Eric: G

David: G

Andrew: G

Ted: Y

Susan: G

Grant: Y

Jami: G

Fiona: G

Michael: G

Kathy, Kelly, and Claire headed down to Tybee Island for Spring Break. I caught up with them on Wednesday after helping Mom out with some financial and household things. The back half was much better weather than the front half, so that worked out well for me.

We enjoyed staying “downtown” in one of the condos on 17th street. We had a view of the water from our porch. We could walk to all the happenings, including a wedding on the pier. There were lots of people, but Kathy and I enjoy all that comes with that, including our new friend the Coor’s pirate who set up a pirate flag, waved it at passing helicopters, played reggae music on a giant boombox, made fun of our sand castle critter, and just could not believe that Coor’s made Killian’s Red.

The water was too chilly, but that never stops Claire. Unfortunately she cut her foot on some barnacle shells climbing on the jetty. Now she knows why it says “DANGER KEEP OFF JETTY.” But it didn’t slow her down too much.

Kelly felt ill one day but snapped back the next. Photos in the Stonegate gallery.

ND2003 Reunion Photo Gallery is now available. It may not be obvious, but you click on groups on the left, thumbnails on the bottom, and read text on the right. Clicking on a large photo will “zoom” in.

Now Playing: Several Species Of Small Furry from the album “Ummagumma – Disk 2” by Pink Floyd

(Claire travel log)

Day 1

Will in car I was being bad then I was starting to be good and we were almost there. Now I’m going to sleep

Will I sort of had a good nap.

When we got their we went to the Ocen and swam in it it was ruff. We were the second house and the second house from the ocen.

Day 2

We went to the ocen. I think it was a tiny bit ruff.

We had a nice time at the bay until the escaped convict made us close up shop and head back to Gulf Terrace.

Our day at the bay had been very short on Wednesday because of a thunderstorm that swiftly crossed the bay in our direction.

Friday, though, featured perhaps the greatest hermit crab race of all time. This was our third or fourth annual hermit crab race at the bay. Danny reported 24 crabs. The average size was much larger than previous years, most crabs about the size of golf ball according to Nicole.

The reason we had so many large crabs was that on Wednesday we had discovered that a stump and roots on the edge of the water had a heavy population of large hermit crabs. Most of the crabs were in the usual snail shell. Nicole found the largest conch-shaped shell.

Kathy, however, found the largest hermit crab since Cashin hermit-crab records have been kept. After the race, all of us crawled about 100 yards out into the shallow waters of the bay. I crawled on my back with my hands behind me and my knees up and feet in front of me. I was Kelly’s water camel.

Kathy went back in to get a float and as she was walking away she yelled “WOW! THIS IS THE BIGGEST HERMIT CRAB I’VE EVER SEEN.” Kathy brought over a cup-cake size (her measurement) snail shell with a large clawed hermit crab inside.

Later I took a picture of “Cupcake” in Kelly’s bucket. I put my ring in the picture to indicate the size. This will be important as I try each year to find a larger hermit crab than Cupcake.

Nicole and I bought [the book] Jurassic Park in Destin. Nicole was asking me some questions about a part she had read. This lead to a discussion between me, Danny, and Nicole about time and God.

Danny asked the question: “How did God make his parents?” I told him that he could go to Notre Dame and base an entire course on that question.

The next day at the pool a lady came up to me and Kathy and said what nice children we had. The kids were sitting around the table under the umbrella, finishing lunch. Nicole was reading Jurassic Park.

“How old is your older girl?” the lady asked. She thought that Nicole was awfully smart to be 10 years old and reading Jurassic Park. “That’s got DNA and such in it!”

I’m not sure if Nicole’s reading Jurassic Park made all three of our kids good, or if Danny and Kelly had done good things on their own. I didn’t ask.