Butterfly day

So awhile ago we went to The Family Tree Nursery to see the Monarch Butterfly exhibit. You might have already heard about it if you read Carlye's blog. Here are some of the pictures that I took on our fun outing.

Cass and Lily laughing at their own stories

Cass and Lily still enjoying chatting while looking at fish

Butterfly

Cass and Lily

Lily is in a Cass sandwich!

To touch the water or not to touch the water that is the question

Sweet shot of the butterfly

Another butterfly

Why I don't do dishes

Suds coming out from the little crack

More suds

The towels are really not helping too much

An important homeowner purchase. A wet vac!

So I was trying to be helpful and load and run the dishwasher - however I made one tiny mistake and it took a little while to fix and I needed some back up help from my teammates at 6860! So do you have any guesses on what the tiny mistake was? Or where this is at?

No worries the problem did get fixed and the dishes, the dishwasher, and the floor are all in tip top condition - or at least they were when I left!

Dad Life

Okay this video is pretty funny! I couldn't pass it up.

Hawaii

Palm trees and sunset = amazing

Just one palm tree

Pearl Harbor

The flag at Pearl Harbor

Some scenery

Things we did here:

• Pearl Harbor
• Beach time
• A Luau
• Beach time
• Firework show over the beach

Australia

A Humpback Whale's tail!

Opera House and the Sydney Harbor Bridge in the background

Mark with a Wallaby

Feeding a Wallaby - some grain inside of an ice cream cone

A Koala bear - that we got to pet, his name is Charlie

Kangaroos that we got to pet while they were sunbathing

Sailboats in front of the Sydney Harbor Bridge (I climbed that bridge!)

A surfer at North Bondi Beach

Things that we did here:

• Did lots of photo taking by walking around, going to the tip of the Sydney Tower, Ferry ride
• Bondi Beach
  
• Sydney Eye Hospital (Yoh had to get her eye re-check - not the most fun 4 hour wait)
• Sydney Harbor Bridge Climb (a huge highlight of mine)
• Whale watching
  
• Went to a wildlife place where you could pet koalas, kangaroos, and wallaby
• We went to a war memorial it is a replica of Washington D.C.
  

New Zealand

Mt. Eden

The Gondola Ride.

Yoh and I at the top of a huge hill over looking the city.

This is inside a thermal village. The steam you see is coming off the geyser.

Seagulls on the bench. My brother likes to say I had them pose like that for the picture.

Just a landscape picture right outside the airport.

A very hairy sheep.

Things we did while in New Zealand:

• enjoyed a cultural dinner at the hotel
• a jade factory tour
• a duck tour around the city of Rotorua
• random souvenir shopping
• a sheep show
• a gondola ride
• Mt. Eden
• walked around by the harbor to take pictures

Fiji

This is a shot of our pool from a balcony. I like to call this shot my screen saver shot.

This is a little river that went around our resort.

Just an amazing sunset!

A place to sleep

A private island we went past before we went to our private island.

Lilly pad

Things I did while in Fiji:

• went to a farmers market area to see local produce
• swam in our amazing pool
• ate some traditional Fiji food
• tasted some Fiji beverages
• went to a private beach area for a whole day: snorkeled, swam, and worked on my tan

Harley (Hars)

December 20, 2000 - July 3, 2010