Here's our performance!

And the rehearsal:

What an experience! It was worth the 28 hours of driving, the dented bumper, and even the vomit smell in my clothes from my son getting sick 20 minutes before the performance.

Update - here's another video someone else posted with a closer view of stage. You can tell the audience started signing before I was ready and I had to catch up!

UPDATE: We won! Going to Philadelphia to sing on stage with the band.

A favorite band Good Old War is having a contest - best cover gets to perform on stage with them. Deadline is 1pm today, so I got the girls out of bed last night to sing this:

The original is here:

A few clips of Sea World, Orlando - January 2010. This is a playlist with several video clips -- you can skip using the left and right arrows.

Over the holidays, we sang some Bob Dylan.

The granola bar shop with too many flavors. Written and performed by the kids.

Our family was at Sea World and Discovery Cove this week in Orlando. It was chilly in the 50s - some of the roller coasters were actually down in the morning until the sun heated things up a bit. Our day in Discovery Cove was fortunately the warmest of the week. The water in the lazy river is heated to 85 degrees, so we didn't notice the cold until it was time to get out (or run to the snack shop or bathroom).

Here are some clips of us snorkeling. Video and photos were taken with my oldish Canon Powershot A510 in a DiCAPac waterproof case my wife got me for Christmas. Stayed bone dry! In a couple of shots you can see the lens cover making a black edge, but other than that it worked great.

A few clips of us with cobras in Jaipur and New Delhi, India. Dumb tourists. The cobra around my neck cost me 200 rupees for "very good picture. No bite, no bite."

To get to Amber Fort in Jaipur, you can walk or rent a jeep or ride an elephant. We picked the elephant ride. It's not a comortable thing - very bumpy and sometimes smelly.

We asked our driver if tourists ever got hurt. He said there was an incident where two elephants started fighting and it resulted in some sort of injury. He also said it's his responsibility to risk his life to protect us, but I'm not sure what a person can do about it once an elephant decides he's angry. I used iMovie's image stabilization on some of this and left it bumpy in other parts.

A few of the photos at the end are of nearby Jaighar Fort, which we visited later in the day. Enjoy:

We rode camels for 10 rupees (25 cents) each at a place called Chokhi Dhani outside the city of Jaipur in the state of Rajasthan, India. The place reminds me of the Polynesian Cultural Center on a smaller scale -- a village feel with activities representative of the culture in that state. I was talked into dancing twice. The very end of the video is Bob the Builder in Hindi:

It's impossible to capture the frenzy of India traffic on film, but that didn't stop me from holding my camera out the car window for minutes on end:

The phrase at the end is from a sign I saw along some of the roads - no one followed its advice.