Archive for December 16th, 2007

Dad’s 70th birthday

Dec 16, 2007 in General

I have the picks up from Dad’s 70th birthday party. I didn’t take many and well… most where with my iPhone which just takes awful pictures. I got a couple at the beach house rental with the SLR but there was so much going on I didn’t really feel like shooting ( and at sunset the 50mm just completely lost it’s ability to auto focus). There are a couple fun picks of kaily trying to dance Flamenco with Mariana. I didn’t really bother to go through and cherry pick the iphone shots so my apologies in advance if anyone goes blind :) .
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s. Cal

Dec 16, 2007 in General

The current plan is to head to S. Cal on the 27th and stay through new years. Grandma Schultz called and graciously offered the use of their beach house to us for the stay. That should be great and really make for a fun stay. Kaily, who recently rediscovered the beach at my Dad’s 70th birthday, has been asking to go play a the sand a lot.

Discovery day in SJ

Dec 16, 2007 in General

Charise was off with a friend and it was supper cold saturday. I was fishing around for some where warm and fun to go with kaily after being cooped up all morning.

After bouncing a few ideas off Kaily, who always gets tremendously excited no matter what it is so they all sound brilliant, we decided to take the train down to the Children’s discovery museum in San Jose.  It’s been a while since I had been their and they had changed some stuff around but mostly it was the same.

All and all we had a lot of fund for quite a few hours. Kaily really enjoys going on Caltrain so she was all worked up just about that (could have been the whole adventure and she would have been fine). Anyway we got down there and realized the station was a lot further from the museum then I had reckoned with, we grabbed a cab and headed on over.
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Kaily spent a long time at the water works and got throughly soaked despite her smock. Loved it. She also really enjoyed the sand chemist area upstairs. She didn’t attache to any other kids which is odd usually she starts building out a mini social network as quick as she can, but kept busy just the same.

I thought the Clifford exhibit was a total let down. Kaily had fun running the little mail slips around to the different prop buildings but there was really not much there to interact with or much to do for a 3+ set. It’s not that it was bad it just could have been a lot more.
Charise declined to come get us, so I put her on my shoulders and we death speed marched back to the caltrain station (couldn’t get a cab and it was an hour wait if we missed our ride).

Good to get out and have some fun.

Tday picks are up

Dec 16, 2007 in General

I finally got the walker family thanks giving day pictures up. Such as they are… I don’t know the lighting was odd and I distracted so there are not to many keepers. I also really need to get a fast 2.8 lens that  that can focus better in low light. Cannon 50 2.8 is a great studio portrait type lens but totally sucks if there is any light variation.
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I’ve promised myself next year I will do something in way of a site redesign for walkerpad.  This word press theme and bugs with the gallery are wearing a bit thin with me.