Pics of the Week - 07.24.12

Meet The Critters with my boss, Todd, and co-workers, Rachel and Anna.

Blue Mews and Red Ruff with me at the Meet The Critters event.

The Companion Animal team in front of the Executive tank.

The view of the Pacific Ocean from the beach behind The Hotel Del Coronado.

The Hotel Del Coronado from the water front.  The hotel spreads out for what seems like an eternity.

We were eating at a wonderful restaurant, named "C-Level", which is right on the bay.  While we were eating, a pirate themed ship floated by with some actors on board doing a pirate chant.  

Pics of the Week 07.09.12

Las Vegas, in front of Paris.

Las Vegas brings out everyone.  Here is Pete Rose signing autographs.

Just as we were finished gawking at Pete Rose, we turn the corner and there is Tony Dorsett  signing autographs in an art gallery.  2 stars in one day...not too shabby!

Jill and I, in front of the Hard Rock Cafe.  Our friend, Margaret got a terrific shot here!

Marcy Playground performing at Mandalay Bay in Vegas to lead off the Summerland Concert.

Mark McGrath and Sugar Ray performing at Mandalay Bay as part of the Summerland Concert.

Sammie at top of the hill outside of my office.  You can see for miles up here as our building is actually down in the canyon.  This picture was taken from outside building 3.

The stage at the Del Mar Fairgrounds in San Diego for the Summerland Concert.

Rachel, Jeff, and Jill at the Summerland Concert in San Diego.

Backstage at the Summerland Concert in San Diego with Sean Winchester (Everclear's drummer), Jill, Rachel, Josh Crawley (Everclear's keyboardist), and Jeff

Jeff and Sammie on the couch.  She's not spoiled or anything!

We went to Carlsbad to hang out with our friend, Jeff H.  I couldn't tell whether these people should be collecting garbage on the side of the highway or what?

Pics of the Week 06.28.12

Jill and I in the Petco Suite at Petco Appreciation Day at the Diamondbacks-Padres game.  

In front of the party bus on our way to the Van Halen concert

Our view from the suite inside Staples Center of Van Halen.

Jill with the Van Halen afterglow.

Jill in front of the cross and Veteran's Memorial on top of Mt. Soledad.

The view of a sunset over the Pacific Ocean at La Jolla Beach from the top of Mt. Soledad.

She had me at hello.

The view from the top of Mt. Soledad.  It may be difficult to pick out, but if you look in the background above the people walking on the path, you can see some of the buildings in downtown San Diego.

Jill at the top of Mt. Soledad.  To the right of her, you can see the buildings in University Town Center, where we live.

Pics of the Week - 05.28.12

Jill sitting at the beach on Fiesta Island waiting for the fireworks.  Across the water is Sea World San Diego.

The Tower at Sea World.  It is lit up to look like the American Flag.

The view of Ocean Beach from Fiesta Island.

Jill and Sammie at the end of the rock pier at Dog Beach.  Onlookers were amazed that she was able to traverse the rocks without fear.  

Jeff and Sammie at the end of the rock pier at Dog Beach.  The Pacific Ocean is in the background.

Sammie takes flight!  She is at Dog Beach, learning how to catch a frisbee in her mouth.  This is her first successful catch!  Her friends look on in amazement.

Sammie is playing with her friends at Dog Beach.  This is her second successful attempt at catching a frisbee in her mouth.  

Pics of the Week - 05.21.12

Jill's new party hat

Hanging out at the Zoo with the Elephants. 

Jill - Monkeying around at the San Diego Zoo.

Sammie with her new frisbee.  Somehow I don't think this is going to make it very long.  Good thing it was only a buck.

These 2 pictures are taken of Sammie at the Dog Park inside Balboa Park.  This is the biggest Dog Park I've ever seen.  You can see based on the pictures that the park goes on forever.  In the bottom picture, Sammie is the black speck in the middle.  The park ends where the bushes are in the very back of the bottom picture and behind all those trees in the top picture.  It goes on forever!

Sammie and I relaxing on the couch.

Jill at the Zoo on the Cable Car that traverses the park.  The view is spectacular from up here.  You can see all the way into downtown from up here.

This is my attempt to capture the eclipse from our apartment.  As you can see, that was an Epic Fail!

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Pics of the Week - 04.23.12

Jill, Blue Mews, Jeff, Rachel (Jeff's Coworker), and Red Ruff at the Phillies/Padres game on Friday, April 20 in the Petco Suite!

This is Sammie with some of her Easter presents from Grandma.  She got a stuffed "Jack" and a rope.  As a footnote, the rope is now in tatters.

Sammie at Dog Beach.  This picture perfectly illustrates how awesome Dog Beach is.  It seems to go on forever and the dogs can just run and play off-leash.  It's terrific.  This was also Sammie's introduction to salt water, which she doesn't quite know what to think about.  She loves to stick her face in the water, but then she'll throw her face in the air and try to spit out all the salt on her tongue.  The other dogs just look at her like, "What's the matter with her?"

This is a bulletin board that I created at work.  Everyone loves it.  Or, at least, that's what they're saying to my face.  It's made up of pictures and "fun facts" about Aquatic Turtles and Koi.  The idea is that people will think of their own fun facts, write them on the post it notes and stick them in the center of the bulletin board.  One of the new additions today reads "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are not aquatic turtles".  Perhaps I should have been more specific about the types of fun facts we were going for.

Jeff and Jill at the Phillies/Padres game on Sunday, April 22.  No, I have not given up my allegiance to the Yankees.  I just wanted to make sure if the rowdies got after Jill that they would go easy on us if we had at least 1 Padre fan in the group.  Truth be told, I was more in jeopardy of abuse and ridicule than she was.  There were tons of Phillies fans at the game.

Pics of the week - 04.30.12

This is one of my favorite pictures.  
Look in the cell phone. That’s me taking this picture of Jill as she is taking one of me. 
We’re at a spiritual garden of some sort that overlooks the beach. 

Amazing views!

This is Jill at the Encinitas Street Fair with her UFC style Dolphins hat on. 

This is a sign someone was selling at the Encinitas Street Fair.  
El Jefe means “The Boss”, which I clearly am not. 

This is a favorite nickname given to me by some of my Spanglish speaking friends.

Pics of the week - 05.07.12

Sammie checking out the Crested Gecko in my office.
Pretty sure she's wondering why it's getting to eat then and she isn't.

The latest addition to the office.  This is my Bearded Dragon.
They are much more social than the Crested Geckos, which are more nocturnal.

I tried to get my Crested Gecko to show some signs of life, so I spread some food on the leaf and to my surprise the feeding frenzy was on.  

Jill and I at the Cinco de Mayo party.  All of the gear I acquired when others discarded various Cinco de Mayo paraphernalia during the party.

Sammie with the Cinco de Mayo hat on.
Clearly she is loving it!