Monthly Archives: April 2008

Hoover Dam




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Originally uploaded by gcrgcr

Yep, the title and photo pretty much say it all.

When we were in Las Vegas in March for the NASCAR race, we (like many other tourists) found a morning to head south and over to Hoover Dam.

There are a lot of pictures here, some interesting, some not. Here are a few things you should know:

AJ was sick and spent most of the time in the car with Joie, so mostly Jesse and Max in photos. And when you see AJ, well, he doesn’t look great. BTW, he spent 6+ hours in our hotel room thereafter until he felt better – it was a bummer for all, but mostly for him.

Zoom lens. This trip was my first outing with this new camera – my Olympus E-410. I’ve accidentally left the standard lens in a different backpack, so all I had was this higher-powered lens. Close photos were hard to take, if not impossible. Note that Max and Jesse standing in two states at once had to be two photos. (I’ll stitch those together in photoshop, I think to myself. Yeah, right.)

The highway they are building overhead just freaks me out. Those are the tallest concrete support columns I’ve ever seen and although high places don’t freak me out that much, this kind of does. I can’t imagine driving on that highway. They should call it sky highway, at least the way it looks from the current highway down at Hoover dam. Can’t wait to see when they finish it.

So, that’s it – consider this your being trapped at my house and I roll out the slide projector except you don’t have to watch all 88 slides if you don’t want to. If you really want this particular experience, try the slideshow! :)

Enjoy!

Wow 6!




6 Years Old!

Originally uploaded by gcrgcr

Just a quick family entry today…

Jesse Dale turned 6 today – we’re now all back to even ages, 6, 8, and 10 for the brood.

These buggers sure grow up fast!

It is fun to reflect back to the day six years ago when Jesse arrived. Joie was hanging out with the boys in her Dad’s shop when her water broke. Ruined the chair I think. Her Mom drove her to the hospital. Joie had her Dad’s sweatpants on and a towel between her legs.

I arrived, probably by Noon. Jesse was born at 12:20 pm. Kiddo #3 was born end-to-end in about 1 hour.

(I’m sure I’ve got this all wrong – so ask Joie the next time you see us).

I wasn’t yet blogging when AJ or even Max was born, but for a trip down memory lane, here is the Jesse Arrives photo album.

Otherwise, this post was just six days away from the big event – but who knew at the time? My next posts in April didn’t start until the 17th, so that kind of tells it all – we were busy those two weeks!

Anyway, Jesse, here is your Spell With Flickr (again, courtesy Erik Kastner) homage:

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Happy 6th Birthday Scooter!