Home for the Holidays

This was the first year since 1999 Ron and I went to my home for Christmas.  We spent a week in Ft. Worth and it was so cold, windy, etc...it really felt like Christmas.  We went to the Gaylord Ice and it was so neat and COLD!  It was 9 degrees in there!  Everything in here is made of pure Ice!  They shape them, color them and cut them to make different things.

Randy and I putting an A&M Santa Hat on the Longhorn!

Mom and I with a Texan Snowman!

Mom, Randy and I going into the Gaylord Ice Show!

Mom, Randy and I at the very end of the show.

Ron (Camera Man), Kelly and Randy walking in a light path of ice...This was so pretty in person!

Disneyland Holiday Season - 2007

Like always, we went to Disneyland for this holiday season.  It was a wonderful weekend had by all!

Ron and Kelly in front of Main Street Tree

Kelly in front of Holiday Small World

Ron and Kelly in front of California Adventure

Laguna Peak 5K

I thought it would be a great idea to run the Laguna Peak 5K.  This 5K is one of the hardest in the state because it is up a mountain....1400 Ft Up at around 20 incline!  After a few weeks of training, we decided it was best to walk up!  It was a great challenge and can honestly say I would do it again!  The top had to be taken with two separate pictures...It was VERY high up!

Santa Monica Mountains

Ventured out couple a weeks ago to drive Mullholland Hwy....So, my goal was to start the drive at Pacific Coast Highway and work my way around Mullholland Hwy to West Hollywood. I jumped in the SUV and off I went...I started my adventura on PCH and went down Mullholland Hwy....30 miles later and 2 hours into my adventure...I decided to head to PCH (via a different rode) and drive home...*smiling*. I have decided this is a two day adventure.

California Fires

A few weeks ago, the fires where only 20 miles from our house. Early in the morning, there was not any smoke near the house. By 3PM it was so dark and smoky...It was really scary. We took photos of day one of the Southern California smoke that filled the air in Ventura County.

This is around 3PM.

This is around 4PM.

Halloween Time at Disneyland

Once again we went to Disneyland's Halloween Time. I'esha and her mom went also and we had a great time.

Ron is HOME!!!

Ron is finally home. Went down to San Diego to pick him up. This is the first time I have ever picked him up from a Carrier and it took forever!! Normally I would wait about 15 mintues for him to get off the ship...Nope, this time it took more like 1 1/2 hours in the HOT San Diego Sun!! Lucky for me, I had sunscreen!!

Here they come!! 10:20AM
Still coming....10:30AM
Finally, they are pier side....10:50AM
WOW...They are actually fixin to get off!! 11:30AM
VAW-112 Coming Off (4th Squadron to get off) 12:00AM

San Diego Here I Come!!

Had to drive down to San Diego to pick up Ron from deployment!! So, instead of driving down the same day, I decided to make a couple days out of it.

Hotel I stayed at.

View from my room. That train ran non-stop!

View of Coronado Bridge...This bridge is HUGE!!

Driving over Coronado Bridge to Coronado Island.

Disneyland

Few friends went to Disneyland for an end of summer girls weekend!!

New Finding Nemo Submarine Ride...Pretty Cool Picture, huh?

My First Earthquake - 4.5 Magnitude Tremor

Last night at 12:58AM I was sleeping peacefully...then all of a sudden, I woke to the house shaking. I thought I was having a dream and went back to sleep. Once I was up and watching the news...I realized I didn't have a dream...I really was in an earthquake!!

Anyway, the one thing that happened was the floor was rolling a lot and it make Kehau and Victoria sick. Other than that, everything is fine here and I made it through my first earthquake okay!!

This is a picture of the actually "shock wave" that went around after the quake. I live right in between Santa Barbara and Los Angeles!!

Bye Hong Kong

Here are just some misc. pictures Ron took while in Hong Kong.

Big Buddha

Leaving Hong Kong...Doesn't it look like a BIGGER Waikiki??

Day 3 - Hong Kong

Ok so yesterday we did our community relations ...we went to go on an outing with the blind...well they weren't really blind ..they we in the process of going blind so the go to this school to get training on Braille and how to walk with a cane and so forth..so when got there they gave us training on how to walk with them and had a little presentation and then we were on our way...we got on the bus and went on our journey..on the way there to kill time...we sang songs and got to know each other a little..we got to our first stop which was "the Peak" from here you can see all of downtown Hong Kong and Kowloon harbor.

It was pretty cool...there was like a mall there with hard rock café and an EA sports thing with all their video games...after that we got back on the bus and went to eat at an authentic Chinese restaurant....they had some crazy food there but it was very good and we ate a lot....lunch was only $2.75 for a WHOLE LOT of food...after we got done we went to this mall that had 9 floors and walked around for a while ...got some starbucks..all in all it was a great day and we met some wonderful people.

Hong Kong - Day 2

Ron got the chance to go to Hong Kong Disneyland...At first I was so jealous since Disneyland is my favorite place in the world...but since he has been gone, he has worked non-stop for months. So, I was really excited he go to spend the day in the "Happiest Place on Earth!"

Hong Kong - Day 1

Ron is visiting Hong Kong right now and has sent these photos to share!