Super Campbell

Campbell decided to dress up like Superman today. He ran around for a while and entertained Nana and Pop.

My Coffee Cup

About two weeks ago my coffee mug went missing. I thought my secret saint took it and was going to fill it with something and return it the next day. After a week I gave up hope. Today it showed up encased in Jello, ala The Office.

The Boys' new favorite restaurant

We were getting our Summer Home ready for winter, time got away from us and we needed to go and get some dinner. No one really wanted burgers, so we thought we'd go for pizza. We walked into the Red Brick Pizza - the boys were in love - TVs at every table! Not my idea of fun, but the boys liked it.

Manly Work

Fred and Mick fold the napkins for the volunteer party - more than 160 napkins. They were both quick studies.

Don't you wish

If only you could hold them to charge for coffee what their sign says. I think maybe they are getting ready to change the sign to 'Mega bucks'.

Cooper and Darth Maul

Cooper is accepted into Jedi training at The Jedi Training Academy at Disneyland Park. After his initial training he was given an opportunity to fight Darth Maul. Cooper was up to the challenge, stood his ground, and became a padawan. He loved it.

A Family Tradition

We went for our annual trip to Disneyland Park today. We spent the night so we would not need to fight the traffic. We were at the gate by 750. Then we went for breakfast at Carnation Cafe - Oscar is away today since his wife is recovering from surgery. We had our usual, Cooper had his dream come true - sausage links. Then Campbell droped his fork, then his knife, then Kerry tried to help him and she dropped his other fork. So we have a new tradition.

Migraine Time

You can tell when I'm in a migraine phase by some of the things I say, or don't say. When I'm in the phase I sometimes stutter, have problems finding the exact word, or say something not quite right. Tonight at In'N'Out I looked at the menu and and asked for a number four. Their combos only go to three - I read the dollar amount as the combo number. The clerk started to look for it on the register, then realized thst there are only 3 combos. I'm getting over a migraine - what was her excuse?

More Westfield Woes

Westfield is at it again. They have removed the fountain from the food court and replaced it with an oversized kiosk that sells gelato and crepes. I had no idea the French and Italians had such a union.

Westfield has also found another place to put ads - on the car-shaped push chairs. With their usual look to quality the Lexus stickers are coming off. I'm sure that Lexus USA would love to have this as their corperate image.

Yet another reason to stay out of the malls.

iPod Sweatshop

This is not an iPod sweatshop - this is iPod central at GTY. Ted is pre-loading them with good stuff from John MacArthur.

It's not too early for fruit cake

It's 6:50pm on Thanksgiving and the people at the front of this line have been there since 4pm yesterday. He hopes to get 50 inch plasma HDTV for 499.00, The store opens at 5am. It's cold tonight - one family has a heater, another brought a projector and movies for the crowd to watch. I can think of 1000 things I'd rather do on Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving

A rest after dinner.

Thanksgiving

A rest after dinner.

Garden view room

This is Graham and Jean's back garden; It is the same one that my room over looked. It is a work in progress, Graham is building a gazebo, and Jean is restructuring where the plants should go.

In build the gazebo Graham had to learn to weld, he has got most of it done, and says it will be finished when he finds some time to work on it.

Where's Squiddy?

When I travel Campbell sends Squiddy with me -- and I take Squiddy's photograph from time-to-time. Squiddy is like flat Stanley, but not flat, and much more squid like. Here Squiddy is taking a look at the view from our chalet into Kruger National Park.

5 of 5 Lions

As we continued our mad dash out of the park, I saw a spotter Hyena, but we did not even slow down for a look, but when we cam upon these two lounging by the road, we stopped to take a few pictures.

4 of 5 Leopards

We were making a dash for the gate (we only had an hour to get out of the park, before they locked the gates for the night), when this car going the other way flagged us down to tell us that there was a leopard feeding down the road. We had seen people who had said that they could see a leopard earlier in about the same spot.

When we rounded the corner, wow, they are hard to see, but to see one this close, and eating -- amazing. We stayed and watched it pull the meat, and listened to it cracking the bones. PETA should come here and see what the animals do to each other.

3 of 5 Rhino

I love rhinos, these two were walking along near the road. Most of the animals were close enough to where we were that I could take the pictures with my canon alone, these were back, so I used my binoculars and focused the camera through the sight.

We came across several pairs of rhino throughout the day.

Did I mention it's hot?

It is hot -- the temp reads 49(that's 120 for US readers)! No wonder the elephants are in the waters, and everything else in the shade.

2 of 5 Buffalo

On the way to the Hippo Pool we can across this herd of more than 150 Buffalo. The were sitting calmly under trees trying to avoid the heat.