**Weekly Challenge #44- Vacation Spots** ***Winner Announced***

[LiloBellaJasmine]

I don't know how to just pick one. LOL Surfermom -your sunset picture is just breath taking.
Eastcoastmom- I love your Bridgewater picture. Gene, your Bahamas picture brought back
memories of when I went to the Bahamas years ago and I picture myself sitting there on
the beech. Linda- you know I LOVE your lake and hope to someday come back to visit it!! ;D
All the others were just great as well!!!

But lab-junkie- Your Noccalula Falls picture just takes my breath away every time I
come here to view it!!! I picture myself right under that water falls and feeling the
mist and hearing the beautiful sound of that water!!! Thanks for sharing!! Congrat's!!!!!



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With the awful winter weather here, I want to see those favorite vacation photos!!
Or any favorite place you love to visit. ;D

Our last real vacation was in '05. I was pregnant with Connor and it was our last
chance to get away for a long weekend. We went to Niagara Falls and had a
really great time. Its definitely a trip I will never forget!!

[SurferMom]

These are from our Condo in Maui last July.

[fburke]

Great pictures of Niagara Falls, I got married there in 03 overlooking the falls, on the NY side we had dinner at the tower over looking the falls that night.

[lab-junkie]

I already know there will be some beautiful shots posted for this week. Here are a couple of my favorites:

Grand Canyon...(Like any photo could ever do justice to this amazing place!)


We don't actually get to vacation very often. We do take advantage of any hiking opportunities on nice weekends though. This shot is from Noccalula Falls in Gadsden Alabama.
This 100-foot natural wonder waterfall is named for Noccalula, a young Cherokee maiden who plunged to her untimely death rather than forsake her true love. She is memorialized by a statue and the engraved story of her fate at the top of the falls where she supposedly made the jump.

[Azusateach]

For me, hands down, it's Yosemite:

[Di]

Nothing much beats a sunny day on the Oregon Coast and a nice glass of wine!

[imported_eastcoastmom]

Cottaging last summer just outside of Bridgewater here in NS

[SurferMom]

I love seeing these!

This is a shot from....maybe about 7 years ago, this is the beach in Australia below our property. THis is my son Drew and hubby Larry surfing on the waves.

[Gene]

Taken from the beach at "Half Moon Cay" Bahamas on our cruise last year.

[Linda1]

We haven't been anywhere on vacation in over 5 years, so I picked the next best thing. When I take a walk on our property, I can for a short time feel like I'm way from all the daily stressful events, even on a cold winter day!