I took a few pictures of a rainbow this morning. The big news of the day is that Elizabeth, Katy, and I all went surfing. Of course Katy just improved on how very well she did last year. Elizabeth and I really never got up. By the way, if you click through and look at the pictures of me and Elizabeth surfing, you are entering a pay-per-view site.
George and Susan came down and took Katy, Margaret, and Sam to Roaring Camp Railroad. They had a good time riding the train through the redwoods.
Alan and I took the TR250 to Dixon this weekend. It was a round trip of about 250 miles. The first time the car has actually been on the highway. It was a champ, a little smoky and loud, but it made it there. The only mechanical failure we had was that the speedometer broke within 2 miles of the end of the trip.
Today we went to the Maker Fair. We did all kinds of stuff. We painted rubber ducks with Microsoft, saw hacked roombas from hackingroomba.com, toured the Neverwas Haul, high speed photography, and lots of other stuff.
It was one of those things that we weren’t sure if we would like it or not and ended up staying all day today. Margaret is planning on going back to do more stuff tomorrow.
Saturday was the annual Cat’s Hill Criterium here in Los Gatos. The family walked downtown to watch the Pro/1/2/3 race.
On New Year’s Day this year, my entire family skied. It was pretty much the most fun I have had on skis. We were there with the Schwartz’s and another family. We have been back and we all skied another day as well. Sam is now convinced he is ready for the rest of the mountain, but not quite yet. Margaret is still hesitant to go up the second lift on the bunny hill even though Margaret is a better skier than Sam at this point.
Again, just a few random pictures from the trip to Tahoe the week after Christmas. This is one Marcella took out of her bedroom window in the Castle. Also, there are a lot of pictures of her with her god-kids here.
We went to church this afternoon for the Christmas Eve children’s pageant. Sam didn’t want to dress up again this year but Katy and Margaret were angels. Click on the photo for more pictures.
Being in Starkville for Thanksgiving, we went out to campus and got some MSU stuff and then went and rode the tractor. All the kids got to drive a bit. Katy drove it by herself. She even ended up driving it all the way back into the garage and parking it.
We went to the San Francisco Auto Show. Elizabeth was lucky enough to get her picture taken with her hero.
Elizabeth: This impersonator looked so real, I did a double take when I saw him. He was making fun of Bush, saying all sorts of malapropisms, which the crowd found funny (hey, it was San Francisco, but with an approval rating in the low to mid-30’s, I guess it could have been anywhere but Idaho). Rusty insisted that I have my photo taken.