It's been a while...

Since our last post, I have spent a lot of time in photoshop working on the photos for Luc and Melissa's wedding. The whole experience in Mexico was great, and it was a lot of fun being able to take the photos for their wedding. Luc set up an FTP site, and it took several days to upload all 12gb of photos that I took, and Melissa said it took them quite a long time to go through them all!!! But I think that they were pleased with them. I hope to post a couple online this week sometime.

April and I just got our new bikes, and went to Topanga Canyon State Park yesterday for a 2-hour ride in the mountains. It was really challenging, but at the end of the trail, you have an AMAZING view of the Pacific Ocean from the top of the Santa Monica Mountains. It was really hazy, and I left my camera in the car, so you will have to wait till next time for pics.

Now that we have bikes (compliments of my employer!), we are riding them everywhere, and it will really cut down on how much driving we do, esp. on the weekends. It's really easy to get around on our side of town on a bike.

Anyhow, more to come, with some pics. I am sure that April has some "crazy bus people" stories to post.

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Chicken Pizza?

From Architecture

April and I are back from Mexico, and we had a fantastic time. The scenery was amazing, Holbox was a sleeply little island, and Luc and Melissa's wedding was perfect.

Above is El Castillo at Chichen Itza, an amazingly worthwhile place to go see. It would be worth flying to Cancun for a weekend just to go see this place, and I was told that there are several other sites that are must-see. Anyhow, I took about 900 photos, and I will be very busy editing the wedding photos for Luc and Melissa so that they are ready when they return to the states. I'll share a couple here for you to see.

Coming Soon...

We have just returned from the Yucatan and will have an update of our trip up soon, as well as new photos uploaded to my photo site.

I will say that we had a fantastic time, Melissa and Luc's wedding was amazing, and I took close to a thousand pictures...

Just another pretty photo

Fort Yargo State Park, Winder, GA

From Scenic Landsc...

Near Athens, GA

Who needs Italy?

From Scenic Landsc...

For those of you that don't already know, Venice California, home to the famous Muscle Beach, was actually originally named for it's sister city in Italy. A very wealthy man purchased the current site of the city, and after considerable excavation, managed to create a series of canals and waterways similar to its namesake.

Alas, it was a big disaster. Nobody wanted to live there, and the mosquitoes were pretty bad. By the 50's most of it was filled in, and the area went downhill pretty quickly.

However, this story has a happy ending. A few years ago (don't know how many) the canals underwent extensive renovations, and about 3 miles of them are open now, and they are lined with million dollar homes about the size of a Volkswagen Van.

Seriously, it's pretty cool to see, and if you find yourself in LA, it's a top-5 thing to see as it's walking distance from Venice beach.

Lewd Behavior

We Spent Valentines Day weekend on the Central Coast, north of LA, in Santa Ynez, and in Santa Barbara.

This Girraffe from the Santa Barbara Zoo was feelin' the love...

Sorry for the delay in posting, guys. We are having some internet problems at home, hopefully those will be sorted out soon. I am busy writing fellowships, and Jason is busy selling office equipment. We will hopefully have a post up soon about our first trip to Griffith Park here in LA, as well as our recent trip to Solvang, CA in the Santa Ynez Valley. Our big exciting news is that we are planning a trip to Isla Holbox in Mexico for the upcoming wedding of our friends Melissa Lerch and Luc Rainville. We are so excited that we are going to be there to share this incredible time with them!