Smith Family Vacation

1998

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We went to Branson, MO this year for vacation.  There is more info on this on our family home page.
This should very well be the best video we have produced so far as our vacation videos are concerned.
Laura and Kristy have some surprises for you but I'll give you a clue.  This year they intend to come to earth from deep space to visit Branson, MO.  Kristy is at the controls and doesn't have much of a clue how to fly the thing.  Animated graphics, neat new sets and costumes will be included in this vacation video.  Get on the mailing list, send $10 + $3 s&h donation to Laura and Kristy's production fund to ..  (The video production is now in progress, see the Branson page for more info..)

Rainbow Productions
P.O. Box 6681
Fort Smith, AR 72906

All donations go into the girl's production fund to help them further their education in this field as well as to help them cover the production costs incurred.

I intend to have more on this video and vacation posted here soon.  Try this Link for more info. BRANSON

    If you pass your pointer over a picture and a hand appears you may click on the picture and see a short AVI file that goes with the picture.

NOTE: I made them as small as I could but some still take a few min to download. 

This is a picture from the video where Laura tells the viewers where all we went on this vacation.  Her hand is over the location of the Valley of Fire lava flow which lays just North of White Sands and is part of the White Sands Missile Range.  It is West of the Petroglyphs and in fact you can see the lava from the Petroglyphs.
Laura the Videographer shoots video at White Sands National Park.  Kristy checks out the white "sand" which is really Gypsum.
Here you see us riding along a mountain trail near a beautiful lake.  These horses are all "actors" since they have all been in the movies.  The man who owns them is James Townsend, a movie star who has appeared in several movies.  He played the Marshal in Young Guns II.  He lives in Ruidoso, NM in the summer and you can call their stables at 505-257-2241 and go for a ride.
The man you see in this picture is John DeLancie, the movie star.  He has appeared in numerous movies and some theatrical plays.  He frequently works with Leonard Nimoy who you may recall as "Mr. Spock" from the original Star Trek series.  John DeLancie is well known as The "Q" from Star Trek The Next Generation.  In this picture John was signing a picture to Kristy.  If you get the video you will see this segment at the end of the tape in the end of the music video the credits run over.
This picture was taken in the International UFO Museum in Roswell, NM.


 
You have heard that sometimes they bring the fire trucks out to spray the people and disperse the crowds.  This is in the Alien Village in Roswell, NM and the child you see the yellow arrow pointing toward is Kristy.  Actually it was so hot that day they would come once every hour and spray water over the West (back side) of the Alien Village to cool people off.
Capitan New Mexico is the place where the original Smokey the Bear rests.   Here you see Laura and Kristy posing with Smokey the Bear inside the museum named after his counterpart.
Laura and Kristy shop down town Ruidoso looking for gifts to give to their friends.
Roswell, NM at the UFO fest.  Here you see Kristy inside a flying saucer racer that was used to race down the hill and win the owner a bunch of money.
Kristy narates our Roswell, NM visit.
Here is another picture from the actual video tape where Kristy is in front of the green screen telling a little bit about the Rocket Museum in Alamogordo, NM.
This picture is directly from the Smith Family Vacation 1998 video tape.  Laura and Kristy are setting in front of a "green screen" that we use to superimpose pictures behind them.  They are talking about this bear that visited the trash cans in front of our condo at Crown Point.  They are giving some good advice about bears and how to be careful about them.  They say "Never feed the bears."  If you feed a bear it makes the bear unafraid of people and they can cause real problems for the people and some of them must be killed because of it. The saying goes "Feed a bear kill a bear."
What are people saying about Madam Roo ?  Click on the picture and find out.
Click on the picture and see a short AVI of this Kodak moment.
It was a Kodak Moment !  AS...
Madam Roo works her magic back in the condo where she tells fortunes to the unsuspecting visitors.  Well a Gypsy lady has to do what a Gypsy lady has to do.

Laura invented a gypsy character for some of her skits and you never know when she is going to change personalities and do one of them so keep the camera ready.

Kristy poses in front of a very large painting in a museum in Lincoln, NM.  The town where Billy the Kid became famous for killing several people including two deputies and a marshal.
And this is the famous Chandelier Stalactite.

Laura narrates a 30 min segment of Carlsbad Caverns on our 1998 Vacation Video.

We had well over 2 hours of video in the Carlsbad Caverns section of our vacation.  What you are seeing here is a night vision shot from my video camera.  When it was too dark for my Zero Lux camera to see I would switch it to night vision mode where I could see in total darkness.
    After walking around inside of Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico for 2 full hours these girls still have a smile on their faces.  One might get the idea they were having the time of their lives, and I think they were.  Laura loved the cavern so much that she did a full 30 min segment of Carlsbad Caverns on the video tape.  You must get the tape to learn why these girls had such large smiles on their faces when this picture was taken.  This segment is on the tape and there's a bit of a secret that goes with it.  Get the tape and learn the secret.  :-)  There's just something about a moving video that says more than words can say.  ;-)

    There is now a short AVI file that goes with the picture and you can see it if you click on the picture.  It tells you what they were laughing about but doesn't tell the entire story.  Carlsbad Caverns was a fun place to visit and to see it on the video tape if you get it.

I'm not done, there's more to come, but I am staying busy.

I recently finished a novel and we are trying to find an agent who will help us sell it to get it published.  The title is The Megan Martin Mysteries, the story is "The Medallion Mystery" and you can read about it at the Megan Martian website on here.

Anyone who wants a copy of any of our video tapes like the Smith Family Vacations 1997 or 1998 can send me some e-mail to let me know and I will get the tape ready for you.  Then send a letter to tell me what you want and where to send it along with a donation of $10 +$3 S&H to ..  (All proceeds go to cover expenses of making the tapes and the rest goes to Laura and Kristy's productions.)

Rainbow Productions
P.O. Box 6681
Fort Smith, AR 72906

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