We spent 5 days in the south. Much of the time was spent at Patty’s with the kids playing with their first cousins. They got along really well and had a great time. The main reason for the trip, however was Jay & Molly’s wedding. We also went to the rehearsal dinner. The last day we spent in New Orleans, the highlight for the kids of course was the Lousiana Children’s Museum. It was a great museum. We also went to the Aquarium of the Americas as well, which is good aquarium. We wandered around the French Quarter just a little bit, but it was raining and that pretty much put a damper on that. We should have probably just spent more time in Mississippi with the cousins.
Category: Katy
This weekend, we went to the Montery Bay Aquarium with the Schwartz’s. The aquarium was ok, but I think that the kids mostly enjoyed eating lunch at Dennis the Menace park in Monterey. Also, here are some other pictures of my kids.
Here are a few movies of Margaret skiing this weekend. Susan, Sam, Margaret, and I went to Tahoe this weekend. Margaret had another lesson. Now she keeps telling us she wants to live in Tahoe and ski more.
We went back to Tahoe again this weekend. Katy skied both Saturday and Sunday. Elizabeth skied Sunday morning and it turned out it was the only time that it actually snowed and rained all weekend. The kids made a snowman. We introduced Bruce and Zeki to DDR (we got it on video). Margaret had another ski lesson, she rode the chair lift and did well, but isn’t quite ready to ski with us. And Sam still loves the snow. I am trying a new way of putting the pictures out there for your enjoyment. Let me know what you think. Here is the old way and the new way.
The whole reason for this trip was to see the change of command on the Nimitz. The son of a friend of my dad’s from college was getting command, Capt. Ted Branch. The ceremony was about an hour long and our kids were wonderful. They were all dress up and behaved very well. After the ceremony on the deck of the carrier, we had lunch on the hangar deck and then had a tour of the carrier. It was very interesting. Katy liked riding the elevators most of all. Sam liked driving the boat as well as the fact that the arms on the chairs in the radar control room went up and down.
After the ceremony today, the kids came back and played on the beach some more. Here are those pictures together with the ones from yesterday.
Day one of the trip to southern California. We spent most of the day in the car. We drove from Los Gatos, made a quick stop to see Venice Beach (Pokie had never been, and it is one of the few places that is exactly like it is on TV). We saw the necessary things in Venice Beach. We saw street performers and muscle beach and the kids played on the play structure on the beach. We got to experience the real L.A. as well. We were stuck in traffice for a couple of hours between Venice Beach and Anaheim. Finally, we ended up at our hotel across from Disneyland. Len and Pat came down and had dinner with us and we took a quick trip through Downtown Disney. The only store we went in was the Lego store. We also went through the Grand California Hotel. Probably the best description of it is, “Disney’s version of the Ahwahnee”. Right as we were arriving back at the hotel, we were treated to a good view of the fireworks over Disneyland. I think it was the first time Sam has seen fireworks, somehow he knew to say, “Oooh, aaah” and “That one is pretty”. We will see plenty of Legos on Sunday. Disneyland tomorrow.
We went to New Orleans for a little bit of Mardi Gras. Rusty was on a float in the Krewe of Tucks. Here are some pictures.