Oceans!

I know. I know. Two blogs in the same day. Get excited.

I was feeling housebound so we decided to try a movie today. It bordered on being almost too much for my body, but we made it.

You know that we see quite a few movies. I rarely endorse one unless it is worthwhile for the entire family.

Well, if you get a chance to see Disney's Oceans movie it is well worth it. Incredible cinematography. Rated G (although there are smaller fishes and mammals that get eaten by the larger ones). It came out on Earth Day and I guess we can only hope that the countries of the world will stop dumping millions of tons of trash into them. There is my Green message for the day.

Check it out . . .

http://disney.go.com/disneynature/oceans/

Easter Weekend 2010

Knowing that it might be a little while before we get back to St. George, we spent the Easter weekend in God's Country. We enjoyed General Conference and took some excursions to Zion's as we could. I went alone on one trip to hike the Observation Trail (a little much for Patty). It was glorious!


At the Lower Emerald Pool



The falls coming into the Upper Emerald Pool.



A couple of reasonably nice shots of the falls at Lower.




Court of the Patriarchs



Picturesque view of the Checkerboard Mesa



I was the first person up to the Observation Point area. Very serene and inspiring.




We had a little Easter celebration in our backyard with Kiara and Jaycee. It's OK if Grandpa helps with the hunt, right?

The Gymnast!

We took this video of Bronson at his gymnastics meet on Saturday, March 27, 2010. He is one talented young man. We thought you would enjoy seeing this.

San Diego

OK, first off, we know it has been awhile since we blogged. No excuse, just slackers. Secondly, we really appreciate Robert working at Delta which allows us great standby privileges. Thirdly, last Friday at 3:00 PM we decided to go somewhere. We decided to find the nicest weather in the continental U.S. and San Diego won out. We left at about 8:00 PM Friday night and came home Sunday PM. Everything worked out wonderful You can even get great deals on hotels and rental cars at the last minute. We had a terrific time.



The main objective of this weekend was to relax. Here we are at one of the most beautiful beaches in America - Coronado Beach.




"Hang Ten" Can you tell which one is the statue?




The beautiful Hotel del Coronado on Coronado Island.



Patty eating some wonderful treats from the Hotel.



We did do one touristy thing by visiting the Cabrillo National Monument on the peninsula west of San Diego. We enjoyed the tidal pools . . .



The statue of Senor Cabrillo . . .



The fog coming up over the mountains on the peninsula was kind of cool.



The light house was really quite neat to tour.





San Diego across the bay. It was a spectacular day with temps in the 75-80 range (while Utah was getting more snow).




We had a great time Saturday night going downtown and visit the Gas Lamp District. Lots of great eating establishments as well as interesting people to watch.

Angel's Landing

We spent conference weekend in St. George. Robert and his kids joined the group. Because Robert had not hiked in Zions, I took him on a stroll up Angel's Landing.

We had a great time. The only downside (but it did make it memorable) was the wind. Up on top it was gusting to probably around 40-50 mph (no Stewart exaggeration).

My hair in the last picture is blowing the opposite way of my standard part.

We enjoyed the experience a lot. Hope you enjoy the pictures.

Palm Springs

This is a short blog, but I had to post Palm Springs. We spent a few days relaxing there at a nice resort. I played 36 holes of golf in 2 days. The incredible thing is that the economy is hurting bad enough there that you can get an incredible deal. For 18 holes of golf, with a cart, with a full set of Ping rental clubs and a bucket of range balls cost a mere $15. My golfing deal of the decade.

I took this picture with my cell phone of a neighboring course, but I played one not too far off this scale.

Carnival Paradise

We concluded our September Southern California vacation by going on a cruise on the Carnival Paradise. We went out to Catalina Island and then onto Ensinada. Not a glamorous cruise, but we enjoyed ourselves and met some nice people.


A friendly seagull with the Queen Mary in the background before we set sail.



We scouted around Catalina Island.





The weather during our whole trip was great, but it was foggy in Ensinada. Somehow Ensinada looked better to me through the fog.