25th Wedding Anniversary Trip

Here's our anniversary story in pictures. Click on the pictures to see them full size, just remember to click back, not close. Best viewed in Google Chrome or Firefox.

Away we go...

Maldives from the air

Maldives International Airport Parking Lot

On our way to the resort

View from Room 810

Water so clear we can take photos of sea life from outside the water

Octopus

Black Tip Reef Shark

Eagle Ray

Van Gogh style sea floor

Now that's a big school of fish

Views from around the resort (Adaaran Hudhuran Fushi)

Sunrise

View of one of the beaches from the bridge to the over water villas

Beautiful sandy beach

Bridge to the Over Water Villas

Hammocks for everyone

25th Wedding Anniversary table decorations. The resort was off a year, we didn't have the heart to tell them, still an amazing job of decorating the table with colored rice and sand...

Happy 25 years of Marriage

They even decorated our bed

Night sky views

View from deck of Room 810

Watersports anyone?

Look at those water colors...

Maldivian Fruit bat

Palms & Sand

Maldivian Big Bird

Beach Swing

Sri Lanka

Views from our room

Tree across from hotel with iron statutes of kids playing

Crow Brigade - security personnel to scare away the crows.

Negombo view

Sri Lanka Sunset

The Seychelles

First view of Seychellois mountains from the airport on our first rainy day

Hilton Northolme getting in on the Anniversary Celebration

Hilton Northolme sitting room

Hilton Northolme Shower (with a view)

Hilton Northolme Room 404 View with celebratory bubbles.

View 1 from the Ocean View Bar (wonder how it got its name)

View 2 from the Ocean View Bar

What I refer to as the Flaming Hot Cheeto bird

Still cloudy, but you can see Silhouette Island in the distance

View from room 404 towards the Spa.

Finally a sunny day - view towards Beau Vallon

Seychelles are Granite Islands - lots of cool boulders around

Enjoying the sunshine (while it lasts)

Seycellois water views

Walk through the Hilton Northolme grounds

Canonball Tree

Information about the Canonball tree

View towards Glacis

Beach walk

Small granite studded beach

More granite boulders around the Hilton property

Almost sunset

Seychellois Sunset