Happy Thanksgiving

Today was Thanksgiving which we celebrated at my brother's house. My parents are visiting this week from Colorado. Judy is a fantastic host, everything was absolutely wonderful. I don't know how she does it. It seems like she just enjoys seeing everyone else enjoying themselves. Well, we won't disapoint you, Judy. The food was excellent and I want to thank you for everything.

The drive to their house was not nearly as enjoyable. The traffic was incredibly bad but expected for a Thanksgiving day. My parents live in rural Colorado and have a right to complain about the traffic. I don't blame them but I'm not sure why we endure it. I guess the great Southern California weather, the beach, the shopping, and the fine restaurants more than make up for the atrocious traffic. I'm just thankful that we were able to get almost all of our family together for this Thanksgiving. My sister could not make it this year. So Gina, if you are reading this, I hope you had a very happy Thanksgiving and I hope we'll see you again soon.

Welcome

This will be my first posting. I have not been much of a writer but I may surprise myself. I thought I wasn't much of a speaker either but since I started going to a Toastmasters club at Latin Leaders I find that my speeches tend to be lengthy and I have have a hard time keeping them within the time limits. I guess I have a lot to talk about so I should have a lot to write about. I read a lot and my lunchtime conversations with friends usually involve topics that I draw from things that I read. So I think that this blog will mainly contain these types of ravings that may seem at times to be lunacy but hopefully will be insightful.

This weekend was a busy weeked for me. I spent Saturday scuba diving with a dry suit specialty class. There is a young couple in the class and the guy picked this time to propose to his girlfriend. The instructors prepared the dive site with a sunken treasure chest (I guess containing the ring) and they pretended to "discover" it during the dive. How romantic, huh?

My niece was also visiting this weeked with her friend so I took everyone to the Galaxy Theatre to see Which One's Pink and Led Zepagain. The show was fantastic. The next morning we ate at IHOP before they had to leave. I snapped this picture while waiting for breakfast. I think she'd make a good model.