So, since back from the trip up the coast I've been back to my normal training routine: 20 mile ride on Saturday and some riding, running and hapkido during the week after the kids go to bed.
Knowing we're taking the kids to a movie tonight and I won't get a work out I decided to have a little run at lunch time. Conveniently there's a locker room and showers at work....and surprisingly clean and private, I took off for a 2.5 mile run around Universal Studios.
Now, the nice thing about working at Universal is I get to run through the backlot, maybe people think I'm famous as I run past the tram cars for the tour, I always wave just in case. Running past the Desperate Housewives set was tough because the food services folks were out there BBQing. It would have been fun to run down New York Street but that's just a bunch of rubble now since the fire.
Fortunately I have control of the A/C in my office and now I'm just sitting trying to cool off.
Here's a map of the run.
Friday, July 18, 2008
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Training Break - Morro Bay
Family vacation this year was a camping trip to Morro Bay. It also turned out to be a bit of a training break... we'll call it "recovery time", that makes it sound like part of the training plan.
We set off or 5 days and 4 nights of camping with the Turners. First stop was the Summerland Beach Cafe for brunch. It's a great restaurant just south of Santa Barbara with omletts, french toast and all kinds of yummy things. From there it was about 2 hours to Morro Bay.
We got to camp and started pulling everything out to set up. Both Mark and I forgot a hammer and had to use a crescent wrench to pound in the tent stakes. There was a guy sitting outside his fancy RV that offered a hammer, I told him I had my multi-tool that was working just fine. He seemed to find that funny for the rest of our stay.
There were some one-star people staying at the site next to us (the other side from the Turners) that it appeared wre building some type of shelter out of plywood. After the ranger came and told the people they couldn't build a shelter and asked them to leave Ethan and Jason decided thae shelter would make better firewood and started bringing some over.
Junia and Brandon held hands by the fire.
On Monday we went to see what this rock deal was all about.
Ethan and Jason thought they should find their own rocks and carry them around...
Then we went to a park for lunch with a great view of Morro Rock.
That night after dinner we made another fire, roasted marshmallows and made a traditional camping dessert of S'mores.
Tuesday we set off to Hearst Castle. The kid's pondered how we could get a Neptune Pool at our house.
Ethan liked the gold on the front door.
Then we drove up the road and saw the elephant seals, it wiped Junia out. 
Back at camp Junia was fully recovered and ready to go, there was no chance of a rest time so me and 4 of the kids went exploring around the campground and over by the water and found our excitement for the next day....canoing!
With 10 of us we needed 3 canoes, it seems the Turners had a bit of trouble getting out from shore. We were able to get out a ways. We found the water wasn't very deep, in fact only 1-3 feet so we didn't really need to paddle we could push the canoe around.
And we did manage to see some sea lions swimming about.
The kids then enjoyed the natural history museum. which seems to be run by a bunch of tree hugging green people, oh, that's the rangers.
And here's the kids in our tent.... I did discover that if the door was large enough we could park our Ford Escape inside. It's pretty big.
And finally, here we are getting ready to come home. Ethan looks happy here but was very sad to leave, he cried himself to sleep the night before knowing we would have to leave.
We're already looking forward to the next camping trip.
We set off or 5 days and 4 nights of camping with the Turners. First stop was the Summerland Beach Cafe for brunch. It's a great restaurant just south of Santa Barbara with omletts, french toast and all kinds of yummy things. From there it was about 2 hours to Morro Bay.
We got to camp and started pulling everything out to set up. Both Mark and I forgot a hammer and had to use a crescent wrench to pound in the tent stakes. There was a guy sitting outside his fancy RV that offered a hammer, I told him I had my multi-tool that was working just fine. He seemed to find that funny for the rest of our stay.
There were some one-star people staying at the site next to us (the other side from the Turners) that it appeared wre building some type of shelter out of plywood. After the ranger came and told the people they couldn't build a shelter and asked them to leave Ethan and Jason decided thae shelter would make better firewood and started bringing some over.
Junia and Brandon held hands by the fire.
On Monday we went to see what this rock deal was all about.
Ethan and Jason thought they should find their own rocks and carry them around...
Then we went to a park for lunch with a great view of Morro Rock.
That night after dinner we made another fire, roasted marshmallows and made a traditional camping dessert of S'mores.
Tuesday we set off to Hearst Castle. The kid's pondered how we could get a Neptune Pool at our house.
Ethan liked the gold on the front door.
Then we drove up the road and saw the elephant seals, it wiped Junia out. 
Back at camp Junia was fully recovered and ready to go, there was no chance of a rest time so me and 4 of the kids went exploring around the campground and over by the water and found our excitement for the next day....canoing!
With 10 of us we needed 3 canoes, it seems the Turners had a bit of trouble getting out from shore. We were able to get out a ways. We found the water wasn't very deep, in fact only 1-3 feet so we didn't really need to paddle we could push the canoe around.
And we did manage to see some sea lions swimming about.
The kids then enjoyed the natural history museum. which seems to be run by a bunch of tree hugging green people, oh, that's the rangers.
And here's the kids in our tent.... I did discover that if the door was large enough we could park our Ford Escape inside. It's pretty big.
And finally, here we are getting ready to come home. Ethan looks happy here but was very sad to leave, he cried himself to sleep the night before knowing we would have to leave.
We're already looking forward to the next camping trip.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Fathers Day at the Beach
We went to the beach for Fathers Day. The kids had fun, Ethan really enjoyed flying kites with Luke and playing in the sand.
Junia tried Uncle Rog's surfboard.
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