Canyon Lake

We took the youth from church to Canyon Lake. It was so much fun. The scout leader's uncle owns a beautiful house that we stayed at on Friday night and we spent all day Saturday playing. We got to use the kayaks, peddle boats and a tube. Everyone had a blast. Thanks Jared and Eva, we all had fun.

Memorial Day

My brother and his family came down. It was fun seeing them, especially my nephew Jack. We went to the Somis Farm and feed the animals, the kids loved it and could spend hours playing.

MBU - Scenario Day

I spent the morning at the Malibu Creek State Park. I belong to a group called the Mountain Bike Unit and every year we have new recruits that participate in scenario day; I was new last year. I was assigned the minor medical scenario; my partner got fake blood and scraps to make it look like he cut himself. The recruits were suppose to evaluate the scene for safety and discover the snake near our bikes. Only two recruits noticed the snake that caused my partner to be startled and fall off his bike.; several hikers went by the snake and never saw it either. It was fun even thought it was too hot!!

Revlon Breast Cancer Awareness 5K

This was my mom's second year participating in the Revlon Breast Cancer Awareness 5K. My mom really enjoys going and talking to other survivors and getting all the free stuff at the expo.

This year we were near at the beginning of the run and it is really crowded when you first start. My mom and I lost each other immediately, I told her to hold my hand and she let go (just like a little kid). I found her before the first mile (not by much). I ran up ahead and figured she couldn't be this far, so I waited on the sidelines to see her past, figured she can't be this far back so I walked/ran and spotted her. We had a great time and I was surprised she didn't fall asleep before we got home (she fell asleep last year in less than 5 minutes of being in the car).

It was great and we're looking forward to it next year.

Andrea & Catalina Island

My friend and roommate from college visited this last weekend. We went to Catalina Island on Friday and we had a blast. Everything we planned on doing didn't work out as planned but we had a wonderful time together.

We were planning on doing two dives at casino point but we only did one. On the first dive Andrea had trouble with her weight belt and it came off. When her weight belt came off she went to the surface and I followed her up. We came up in the middle of a kelp forest and we got stuck in kelp three times on the surface. It was a real pain making it back to the steps that I wasn't feeling up to going again.

The diving at casino point is amazing. It is difficult going up and down the stairs in gear but not too bad. The visibility underwater was about 20' and I wasn't cold!! I would love to do this dive again with more people that is knowledgeable about the area and has a compass (compasses on the island are rented separately)!!

We decided to go snorkeling a Lovers Cove, which lasted for five minutes. A couple was getting out of the water and gave a bag of fish food that they didn't use. We were in knee deep water and stuck our faces underwater and I was so excited about the visibility (even better than casino point but no scuba diving allowed). There were a lot of Calico Bass and Garibaldi (orange) along with kelp forests.

Andrea screamed and I was shocked to find out that she got bitten by a fish. She had the fish food bag in her left hand the fish swallowed the bag and her hand. Andrea was standing in knee deep water with her hand scraped and bleeding. We exited the water and decided no more water sports for the day. We returned the wetsuits to the scuba shop and had her hand cleaned by a fireman paramedic that was in the store. He said that it happens occasionally and he thought it was because of her wedding ringing (which luckly didn't come off) but she thinks it was the food because she always scuba dives with her ring.

We decided that it was not a good day to try water sports!! We stopped after two strikes instead of waiting for the third strike. We went to Descanso Beach, relaxed and fell asleep.

It was a perfect day and it felt like we were on a vacation a lot further than my house.

so glad....

I'm so glad that I went to Hawaii when I did. ATA (the airline I flew) just filed for bankruptcy. I'm not surprised because their employees are less knowledable about airline policies than the customers, a personal per peeve. (I can't stand talking to a store employee when I know more than them and I don't know every much.) I am defiantly glad that I went when I did, even though I didn't have a lot of time.

Go Dodger Blue

Jared and Eva invited Michelle and I to use their fmaily season tickets with them. It was so much fun. They brought hot dogs (still warm) and we brought chips, drinks and treats. It was so much fun. It was a great game and it was getting cold near the end so we were glad that the Dodgers won and no extra innings!!