Back to Disney with Kate and Chris

Posted on by Ian C.

Another month, another trip to Florida for Margaret and I 🙂
This time, meeting Kate and Chris – his first ever trip to Disney! Also, Margaret’s birthday – of course we went to Magic Kingdom that day – and Margaret got a “Happy Birthday” badge from Disney:

 

Another day, with “Turkey Vultures” visiting next door:

But then, back to the parks … Disney’s Hollywood Studios: Lights, Camera, Action stunt show, the Great Movie Ride, and at the end of the day, we finish with Phantasmic:

 

In memory of Diane

Posted on by Ian C.

Today I received the sad news that a wonderful friend and MINI owner, Diane, has passed away. Diane had been fighting cancer for some years, and while it appeared that she was winning when we saw her last year, in the end you can never win 😦

Before Diane’s struggle, she regularly attended MINI events, driving hundreds of miles from her home in Maine to attend events as far away as New York! Here are some pictures from events that both she and I attended …

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(obituary can be found here)

[Years later], prompted by a Facebook post from Diane’s family, I put together this short video sequence of photos of her and her MINI …