Tuesday, July 31, 2007

European Vacation

We're back from vacation and trying to get used to real life again. Here are a couple pictures - we took hundreds so it's a little hard to narrow down what to use, but I figure most people would rather see a picture of us than pictures you can see in any history book :)

This one was taken in Nice on the French Riviera. Interestingly, there wasn't sand on the beaches - it was pebbles. Didn't look very comfortable for laying out on.


This one is from Pompeii. Pompeii was one of the highlights of the entire vacation. We had a great tour guide who did a fabulous job of explaining what we were seeing. It is hard to fathom how old the remains are and also to believe that there are people who once again live in the shadow of the still active volcano.

Sunday, July 8, 2007

4th of July


Here is a rare picture of us. This is from our annual trip to DC for the 4th. We had a great time and great weather (except for the tornado watches...). This picture is in the gardens that are at the old Smithsonian building. It is a neat treasure to find in the mall area.


Little Richard was staying at our hotel but we didn't get any pictures of him - I tried to get tickets to the "Capital Fourth" from his people, but no luck.


The tomatoes are taking over the deck and we now also have little peppers forming on the pepper plants. I don't know how long it takes for tomatoes to ripen, but we figure it will happen while we're on vacation.

Sunday, July 1, 2007

Tomatocam


Tomato Update - we now have 4 tomatoes. They're not quite ready to eat yet :)
Marathon Training Update - I'm up to 10 miles on my long run. That's well ahead of pace for a rookie marathoner, but I'm coming up on some rough training weeks (rough in the sense that I'll be on vacation and unable or unwilling :) to log that kind of mileage).
Adoption Update - China's not getting any faster so the long journey continues.