Katy and Margaret had their Halloween parade at their school this morning. All the kids get in their costumes and have a big assembly where they march around so that everyone can see everyone else. Elizabeth is busy all day at Halloween parties for all three kids in their classrooms.
Katy had her dance recital. Click on the picture above for a few movies and pictures.
Well, we are done with construction for this year. It has started snowing in Tahoe and the TRPA won’t let us build after October 15th unless we do some things that we don’t want to do right now. If all goes well, we will start around May 1st, 2005 and have something we can use sometime next year. Bruce was nice enough to take a few pictures the weekend before everything was wrapped up. I think that there is about a foot of snow or so over everything right now. If it melts a bit, maybe we will get up there and get some more pictures before the winter really sets in. We were able to get everything done that we wanted to this year. We got the foundation in and the propane tank buried.
I talked to the contractor today. He said that there was about 2 feet of snow on the ground right now. So, we may or may not see our foundation again this year.
I went for a bike ride with Tyler Hamilton today. He has gotten 2nd in the Giro d’Italia with a broken shoulder and 4th in the Tour De France with a broken collarbone. He also won gold in the Olympic Time Trial in Athens. He was out here raising money for his foundation, this was a ride to raise money for that. He gave a talk the night before where he passed his gold medal around the audience. The gold medal was pretty cool.
The ride was a lot of fun even though it pretty much rained the entire time. We climbed Mt. Tamalpais in Marin County. There were supposedly really great views of the ocean and San Francisco, but unforntunately at the top of the mountain, the visibility was only about 50 feet. Click here to see a graph of the ride.
Here is a picture someone else took of Tyler riding near the top of Mount Tamalpais. Notice that you can’t see any of the really nice views because visibility is about 50ft at the most.
This was outside the bathrooms at Cowell Theater in San Francisco. I was able to identify it as art right away.
Riding the train at Vasona park
Another trip to the Monterey Bay Acquarium. This time to see a great white shark. It is the only one in captivity. I don’t know how long it will be there, generally the great whites don’t eat while in captivity. If this one survives, it will probably get to big for the tank after a while anyway. We also made it to Dennis the Menace park again as well.
I went to Tahoe this weekend to visit the hole. We have a pile of rocks, running water, and electricity. The forming and concrete work is supposed to start week after next. It may snow there this weekend, so we are not getting stuff done too early.
