These are some of the pictures from locations I traveled to on vacations. I have included some of my favorite pictures from sites I visited. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did and that you will let the pictures take you into the recesses of your mind to bring you peace, tranquility and to relax.

This is a picture of the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone. It was a beautiful place to visit, so many different sites to see and the beauty that was there was just totally AwEsOmE! I went there with my husband, Ben, and Liz. We took a camper with us and did a lot of our own cooking over the camp stove in the camper. I enjoyed being with my kids and cooling our feet in the streams and brooks. We even camped by a babbling brook one night, it was so cool too!

We walked miles and miles while we were on the trip, in fact it was in July, and I had a dream one time that it was snowing in July, well on this trip we actually came across a patch of snow and took a picture of it. This here is Liz standing at the base of the snow.

This is the Little Falls Dam with three of it's four gates open allowing the spring water to flow through from the Mississippi River. It's a beautiful site to watch and it's right in my hometown and close to where my mom lives. It's located in Little Falls, Minnesota, the home town of Charles Lindberg.

CANADA VACATION 2002

Horseshoe Falls at Niagara Falls on the way down to Maid of the Mist.

On Maid of the Mist looking at the American side of Niagara Falls

Here we are on Maid of the Mist at Niagara Falls. It was a very enjoyable vacation!

Calgary, British Columbia, Canada 2003

We went on a drive to Calgary, BC, Canada to attend Julie and Mike's wedding. We traveled up to Minnesota and stayed with my daughter Liz for the night, then we traveled through North Dakota into Montana and stopped in Great Falls for the night. We then traveled up through British Columbia to Calgary. I didn't take many pictures on the way there as I wanted to save my film for the wedding. But here is one of the pictures from the wedding.

Also you can view the wedding pictures at the following web site: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~kjlgood/VanWensemWedding.htm

After the wedding was over we traveled down to Pincher Creek to visit some friends and during our stay we went to an area by the Rocky Mountains that had a glacier on it. However, most of the snow and ice had melted. Here are some pictures from that trip. (Click on the picture for a larger view, then click on your back button to return to this page).