Further into the hallway | Bigkitty Gallery

Created on: Saturday 25 May 2019
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Caramelizing the plantains

Brian and Cheryl

1 plate of Devil-style shrimp sopes

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3D artwork along the wall

A bedroom - view 1

A bedroom - view 2

A bedroom - view 3

A bedroom - view 4

A different bedroom

A different hallway

A different servant's room

A globe near the Library Room

A higher view of the staircase

A model of the Conservatory

A model of the house in the Conservatory

A servant's room

A tapestry without people in front of it.

A Vanderbilt House Party - The Gilded Age

Aft view of the NCL Dawn

All cooked ready for the shrimp

All ready to go!

Alligator visitor

Almost to the bottom

Along side of the Walled Garden

And so ends a great day in Aruba.

And the last sun sets to end our cruise.

Another great ceiling

Another view outside the Conservatory

Approaching the island

Artic Mural (going backwards)

Artwork behind the people

Artwork in the staircase

Average black bear

Balls are too close

Banquet Hall - view 1

Banquet Hall - view 2

Banquet Hall - view 3

Banquet Hall - view 4

Basement staircase

Bathroom for the Louis XV Room

Beach view on island opposite Cape Liberty Lighthouse

Beautiful flowers in the Tapestry Gallery

Beautiful piece of furniture

Beautiful plants

Beautiful view 1

Beautiful view 2

Bed side of the room

Beignets and hot chocolate

Beignets and orange juice

Billiard Room - view 1

Billiard Room - view 2

BilliardRoom - view 3

Biltmore Estate

Bookshelf in the Library

Bottom of the spiral staircase

Brad and Cheryl

Breakfast room lounge area

Brian and Cheryl go shopping

Brian hugging Erica

Brian with the sea urchin

Brian's dessert plate decorations

Buffet Morning Greeter

Butler in the china room

Café Du Monde Menu

Chacchoben Ruins map

Chambered nautilus

Chef Brian at Playa Mia

Chef Erica at Playa Mia

Chef Luis and Moses

China storage - view 1

China Storage - view 2

China Storage - view 3

Chocolate Tequila sauce for the plantains

Close up of the walls

Closer picture of us

Clouds give beautiful colors during a sunset.

Conservatory - view 1

Conservatory ceiling

Coral reef info

Cornelia and cousin John in a room

Costa Maya Port life raft

Costa Maya waters at the port

Cougar scratching the branch

Cozumel night lights

Crossing the driveway to the Gardens

Cruise terminal in the distance

Dad below the dome

Dad's favorite view

Decatur - this is how street signs are done - in sidewalks

Decoration up the stairs

Dessert - Caramelized Plantains with Chocolate Taquila sauce

Details on the walls of the staircase

Deviled Shrimp sautéing

Different sea urchin

Dolphins seen throughout the video

Door to china room

Dory and Marlin

Downstairs dining

Dumb waiter to send food upstairs

East View Map 1

East View Map 2

Edith and George Vanderbilt

Edith's bedroom - view 1

Edith's bedroom - view 2

Edith's office - view 1

Edith's office - view 2

Embarkation Day

Entering the Rose Garden

Entering the Walled Garden

Entry into the cold storage room

Erica hugging Brian

Erica in the penguin tube

Erica on the dome

Erica with the sunset

Erica's dessert plate decorated

Erica's favorite view - west

Even the fire trucks get decked out for Mardi Gras

Exercise room - view 1

Exercise room - view 2

Exercise room - view 3

Famous St Lucia Pitons viewed from a catamaran

Finding Nemo fish

First sea day sunset

First snorkel spot

Frank the Penguin

Front of Andrew Jackson's Equestrian Statue

Full view of the indoor pool

Further into the hallway

Garden Train going by...

Getting closer to the pitons

Glassware storage

Going back down after playing golf

Going on the prowl

Goliath Grouper

Good food and wine

Gran Plaza sign

Great aft waves!

Great day to head out to sea!

Great details in the ceiling

Great picture of the moon

Great restaurant we went to

Great view to the dome

Group of horseshoe crabs

Grouper with sauteed vegetables and tamarind sauce

Hanging out on the Waterfront

Harvest Caye Port life preserver

Hatfields and McCoys

He's watching me!

Here is where the alligator started

Historic info for The Court of Two Sisters

History of Bienville - a part of NOLA in the French Quarter

House plants to welcome you in

Humpback whale skeleton

I think they are a bit too thick...

Information about Fredrick Law Olmsted who designed the Gardens

Information about the Conservatory

Information about the Walled Garden

Information about William Matthews

Inside Café Du Monde

Inside the Madonna Room

Inside the Van Dyck Room

Jackson Square Water Fountain in front of St Louis Cathedral

Kitchen - view 1

Kitchen - view 2

Kitchen - view 3

Landscape Highlights

Last view of Bienville statue

Lazy white tiger

Leafy Sea Dragon

Leaving Miami, FL

Leaving the city behind for open waters!

Left side of Andrew Jackson's Equestrian Statue

Leopard roaming

Lets head into that rapid

Light shower as we headed back

Linens hang dry

Lion at the front of the house

Look at all of those seals!

Look how clear the water is in St. Lucia

Look how they filled in every gap with all different sizes of rocks

Look how wonderful this view is!

Looking out through the covered walkway to the Rose Garden

Louis XV Room - view 1

Louis XV Room - view 2

Louis XV Room - view 3

Louis XV Room - view 4

Lounging around

Map of the Gardens and Trails

Martha and George in the Tapestry Gallery

Martha in Edith's room

Miami is getting smaller!

Model of the Estate stair wall

Modern day Café Du Monde

Monkeys are in there

Monkeys were hiding in these trees.

More mountain views

More of the staircase

Motor for air to the pipe organ

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MSY Mardi Gras 2023

Mural room in the basement

My balcony view!

Nature bent the tree

NC and TN border on the Pigeon River

NCL Dawn at port in Aruba

NCL Dawn before sunset

NCL Dawn lit up for evening fun

NCL Getaway Aft view

Next up - Lightly seasoned fish

Nice architecture along Bourbon St

Nice grandfather clock

Night sky starting to show

North View Map 2

Northern View Map

Not I can say I've been down Bourbon Street

Oh look! It's another human!

On the way to Clingmans dome

One towel animal

Original Café Du Monde

Original version

Other random statues in NOLA

Other tapestry in Banquet Hall

Other upper view of the Banquet Hall

Outside the Conservatory

Pacu! See how big they are!

Panorama view of the Pitons

Part of the Garden Railway outside the Conservatory

Pauline Merrill and Cornelia Vanderbilt

Peeking trough the trees

Pelican Adventures - the company we sailed with

Photos of the statue people in the Living Hall

Piano in the sitting room along the hallway

Picture of George Vanderbilt

Pipe organ in Banquet Hall

Poison dart frogs

Polar bear having fun with bag flips - seen from above

Port - Punta Langusta in Cozumel

Pottery Storage

Rafting through the river

Random statue in NOLA

Real photos of George Vanderbilt, and Adele and James Burden

Real picture of Florence Twombly

Real pictures of Cornelia and cousin John

Real pictures of Edith and George

Real pictures of Pauline and Cornelia

Redtail catfish

Right side of Andrew Jackson's Equestrian Statue

Room card - Madonna Room

Room name card - Van Dyck

Sailing around St Lucia

Sailing past Cozumel heading to Costa Maya

Sally is over 100 years old!

Saying on the Café Du Monde cups

Sea lions and Harbor seals having fun - seen from above

Sea lions and Harbor seals playing - seen from below

Seal heads bobbing

Seasoned the plantains

Second snorkel spot

Seeing his flips from below

Servant's dining room

Serving dish closet

Serving Dishes decorating the Banquet Hall

Setting out on a catamaran sunset sail

Side of Bienville statue

Side view of the Rose Garden in early spring

Sign for Louis XV Room

Sitting area of a bedroom

Sitting room - view 1

Sitting room - view 2

Sitting room along the hallway

Sniffing around

Snorkeling Selfie!

Some calm waters

South View Map 1

South View Map 2

Standing at a big rock

Starting the shrimp

Street sign of the Court of Two Sisters

Street view of St Anthony's Garden

Taking the bus to the drop area

Tapestry in Banquet Hall

Taxidermy decorations in the Banquet Hall

The ceiling in the Salon

The different people represented in the Banquet Hall

The fire station's decorations

The fish are served with rice and shredded cabbage

The flags of the Harvest Caye

The flowers on the table in the Salon

The Free Radical from Radical Adventures

The Gardens Railway in the Conservatory

The Library - view 1

The Library - view 2

The Library above the mantel and ceiling view

The middle of the Winter Garden

The Music Room - view 1

The Music Room - view 2

The Music Room - view 3

The other deviled shrimp sopa

The pier after we docked

The Salon - view 1

The Salon - view 2

The sign for the people gathered in the Banquet Hall

The start of "Wine Lovers - the Musical"

The statues of the people listed on the sign

The sun goes down on a beautiful day in Aruba

The sun is only found reflecting in the clouds.

The Tapestry Gallery - view 1

The Tapestry Gallery - view 2

The Third Floor Living Hall - view 3

The tigers who live here

The Vanderbilt Family at the statue in the front

Third Floor Living Hall

Third floor Living Hall - view 2

Time to go somewhere

Top view of the indoor pool

Train track inside the Conservatory

Try to decorate your plate like this.

Turned over tree

Types of seahorses

Tyrolean Chimney Room - view 1

Tyrolean Chimney Room - view 2

Tyrolean Chimney Room - view 3

Under the train track

Underground hallway

Up close picture 1

Up close picture 2

Up into the wagon

Upstairs hallway

Us at one of the ruins

Us with Cape Liberty Lighthouse

Very large fish!

Video played talking about the estate's history

View above the fireplace in the Banquet Hall

View from back of the timeshare

View from our cabin

View into the Banquet Hall from the hallway above

View of the back of the Biltmore Estate

View of the Conservatory

View of the field in front of the estate

View of the South Terrace from third floor

View of the tapestry above this fire place

View off the patio

View towards the mountains out back

Waiting for a turn

Walking around the Italian Garden

Walking to the next hole

Walkway to the gardens

Wall decorations in Billiard Room

We found a bear!

We met up with Sandra from our 2020 cruise

Weedy Sea dragon

Welcome arch to the island

West View Map 1

West View Map 2

West View Map 3

What do you see?

Where are you going?

Where jarred food was kept

Which way do we go now?

Whole house call buttons

Windows in the staircase

Winter Garden glass above

Wonderful colors in the clouds!

Working our way down the river

You can't find me!

You keep watch, and I'll go this way.

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