Month: December 2008

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Family Ski

Rusty and the Easiest Way

Today was a big family ski day. We spent most of the day on the slopes. We all made it to the top of Alpine Bowl today together. This was a first. Katy had done it many, many times. Margaret and I did it last year. This was Sam’s first time. The only one that didn’t thoroughly enjoy it was Pokie. The second time down, Margaret went down the top section on her bottom then hit a mogul and flipped over. We thought she might be hurt, but she turned over and was laughing (it was actually pretty funny to watch). It was a great day.

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Ice Skating

Ice Skating

We (everyone but Susan and I) went ice skating at squaw. Sam was a natural. Katy and Margaret had a lot of fun.

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Christmas

Christmas morning

Another great Christmas has come and (almost) gone. We all were up by 6:30 and then opened presents for a very long time. A lot of shovelling by me and everyone played with their new toys as much as they could. All-in-all a good day. We all watched the kid’s new movie tonight (Wall-E).

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Kater

No pictures. Katy and I went skiing today in lots of powder just ahead of the blizzard moving in tonight. We came up with a new word. Kater. It is the large hole (crater) left behind when Katy does a face plant in 3 ft of snow.

We are having fun watching it snow waiting for our first white Christmas.

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Christmas Tree Trimming

Margaret decorating tree

We are in Tahoe for Christmas this year. This is the first try at this. We will see how it goes. Although, a bit later than previous years, we decorated the tree tonight. We have Marcella here to help as well. I will get my first white Christmas. We have about 5 ft of snow on the ground with 1-3 ft expected Christmas Eve and Christmas day.

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Leonardo da Vinci

Katy

Katy and I went to see the Leonardo da Vinci exhibit at the Tech today. It was very interesting to see what kind of engineering existed 500 years ago. Lots of gears. Fortunately for both of us, Katy and I have about the same attention span, so we went through quickly. We could have spent many hours there if we wanted to read and learn everyhing.

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FLL Tournament

fll

The end of the FLL season is here (for us). We had the tournament today. Again, the kids did extremely well and they had a great time doing it. We got 5th place in the robot challenge and probably about that overall. You can find a video of one of the runs here.

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Surfing

Katy riding the waves

We all went to Santa Cruz for Katy to surf. Of course, she did really well. We took the new kayak over there as well and Elizabeth took it out into the bay so she could get a closer look at the surfers.

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Parade

Family in TR250

Today was the annual children’s holiday parade in Los Gatos. Katy wanted to put the Triumph in the parade last year, but the engine was out of it making it a bit difficult. But we made it this year. Katy, Margaret, Sam, and I were in the car and Susan and Elizabeth walked Daisy and Jax along with us. As you can see from the pictures, we marshaled near the Duck Flambe. Unfortunately, it was not allowed to spew fire like it was designed to.