And more pictures of cornhole, pig, football, and beer, if you're interested.
Wednesday, January 01, 2014
Tailgating at Tulsa
Pig roast!! Football!! Beer!!
And more pictures of cornhole, pig, football, and beer, if you're interested.
And more pictures of cornhole, pig, football, and beer, if you're interested.
SCV and Mike Trout's Angels Debut
(Visited July 7-10, 2011.) I'd almost forgotten about all the fun times on this trip! We gave Andrew a trip to Santa Clarita Valley (SCV) and tickets to an Angels game for his graduation present. I never bother to take pictures of SCV, so this partially explains why I forgot, but Foursquare remembered!
We spent the first day at Six Flags Hurricane Harbor, where Chris lost his glasses. We had to go to the mall to get them replaced at LensCrafters. (Awww, remember Valencia Town Center? Well, it's a Westfield mall now.)
Sadly, he couldn't get them repaired in time for the evening's Angels game. We had awesome seats behind the Angels dugout.
More crucially, we watched Mike Trout's Angels debut. At the time, he was baseball's most promising prospect, and now, two and a half years later, it turns out it wasn't just hype!
The next day, we went boogie boarding at Zuma Beach, and later met my parents for delicious Peking duck for dinner at Duck House (after sitting through something like two and a half hours of traffic to drive from the beach to Monterey Park...forgot about that L.A. traffic at dinner time). Yummy duck though! This is one of my dad's favorite restaurants.
We spent the first day at Six Flags Hurricane Harbor, where Chris lost his glasses. We had to go to the mall to get them replaced at LensCrafters. (Awww, remember Valencia Town Center? Well, it's a Westfield mall now.)
Sadly, he couldn't get them repaired in time for the evening's Angels game. We had awesome seats behind the Angels dugout.
More crucially, we watched Mike Trout's Angels debut. At the time, he was baseball's most promising prospect, and now, two and a half years later, it turns out it wasn't just hype!
The next day, we went boogie boarding at Zuma Beach, and later met my parents for delicious Peking duck for dinner at Duck House (after sitting through something like two and a half hours of traffic to drive from the beach to Monterey Park...forgot about that L.A. traffic at dinner time). Yummy duck though! This is one of my dad's favorite restaurants.
Trampolines and Santa Cruz
(June 24-26, 2011) In the summer, Andrew came out to visit us, and if I remember correctly, we got a Groupon deal for Sky High Sports in Santa Clara.
We also went out to Santa Cruz for tacos and tide pools!
Andrew's Graduation
(Attended May 13-16, 2011.) Well, Andrew at this point already has his master's degree, so it's somewhat lame that I'm only now writing about celebrating his bachelor's degree, but here it is anyways! Congratulations Andrew!
Our recreational activity of the weekend was golfing at the Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve. It took us like two hours to finish maybe four holes? Thank goodness there weren't many other people out playing that day!
Andrew hit a car. Well, the ball hit the road and then bounced up to hit the bottom of the car, and this is where it ended up.
To his credit, he played it from that spot!
And later, there was a wild goose chase!
Most of us had to leave early to drive to the airport, but Andrew finished the course and I think ended with a respectable score.
See more pictures from Andrew's graduation weekend.
Our recreational activity of the weekend was golfing at the Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve. It took us like two hours to finish maybe four holes? Thank goodness there weren't many other people out playing that day!
Andrew hit a car. Well, the ball hit the road and then bounced up to hit the bottom of the car, and this is where it ended up.
To his credit, he played it from that spot!
And later, there was a wild goose chase!
See more pictures from Andrew's graduation weekend.
Tongariro (Not) and Waitomo Glowworm Caves
(Visited March 17-20, 2011.) Tongariro starred as Mordor in the Lord of the Rings, and we definitely wanted to say that we "simply walked into Mordor" despite Boromir's dire warnings. This might have been funnier in 2011, but still, the scenery on the Tongariro Alpine Crossing looked amazing.
I was super depressed that we didn't get to do it. The weather was terrible, and apparently the pass is dangerous in high winds, and therefore closed to all hikers. We should have allocated a couple more days to wait for the clouds to pass by, but instead, we decided to head to Taupo. Hopefully we go back to New Zealand and try Tongariro National Park again someday!
Taupo turned out to be a fun, if touristy choice. We signed up for a "blackwater rafting" trip through Waitomo's glowworm caves. We chose the Legendary Black Water Rafting Company, and I believe I bought a CD of pictures from them, but...we'll need to look around for that, oops. (I didn't attempt to use my already water-logged camera here.)
Anyways, we (unexpectedly) had a blast, because:
I was super depressed that we didn't get to do it. The weather was terrible, and apparently the pass is dangerous in high winds, and therefore closed to all hikers. We should have allocated a couple more days to wait for the clouds to pass by, but instead, we decided to head to Taupo. Hopefully we go back to New Zealand and try Tongariro National Park again someday!
Taupo turned out to be a fun, if touristy choice. We signed up for a "blackwater rafting" trip through Waitomo's glowworm caves. We chose the Legendary Black Water Rafting Company, and I believe I bought a CD of pictures from them, but...we'll need to look around for that, oops. (I didn't attempt to use my already water-logged camera here.)
Anyways, we (unexpectedly) had a blast, because:
- The glowworms were really cool, like a starry sky inside a pitch black cave.
- We rappelled down a 200-foot hole, even though we've never done anything like that before (they gave us lessons and a couple practice runs before we did the real one).
- We jumped off a big cliff into the underground river (we had inner tubes).
- We rode a short zip-line in the light of the glowworms (otherwise totally dark).
- We climbed up a waterfall to exit the caves.
Climbing up the waterfall was one of my best memories, simply because I was so completely terrified when I first looked at it. I thought there was no way I could do it, but the guides talked me through exactly where to put my hands and feet, and underground caves, which have no sunlight, also have no algae, so nothing was slippery. I was so thrilled that I did it!
Sorry for the text-heavy post, but hopefully I'll eventually find the CD and share some pictures.
The one picture we do have is from driving through Taupo. We stopped by the Honey Hive, a honey store, and bought some of New Zealand's famous Manuka honey (as well as some honey whisky and honey mead).
The one picture we do have is from driving through Taupo. We stopped by the Honey Hive, a honey store, and bought some of New Zealand's famous Manuka honey (as well as some honey whisky and honey mead).
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