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<\/a><\/p>\nNick found a shrimp, which are harvested from the lake for fish food:<\/p>\n
That picture reminded me of this one, taken 16 years earlier in Australia:<\/p>\n We took a short hike up the hills up the road, but I messed up and made it a longer hike then intended. We forgot the sun block and Tiffany got burned:<\/p>\n But we tried to take good care of her after that:<\/p>\n The next day we took a tram at the SnowBird ski resort to the top of a 11k foot mountain:<\/p>\n Z & T are experts at getting their picture taking, but I didn\u2019t get Nick turned around in time:<\/p>\n Zach let Tiffany get away from him (he was trying to give her his shirt to protect her sunburn):<\/p>\n He eventually caught her:<\/p>\n And peace an tranquility ensued:<\/p>\n We also had a nice visit with Nick\u2019s co-workers, Scott and George. In between the fun, they had several productive Skritter<\/a> company meetings:<\/p>\n This was another hike we took, to the top of Signal Hill. We climbed up an abandoned tower with Nick, despite his fear of heights, leading the way!<\/p>\n Zach was chiding me for having a mis-adjusted wine bottle shelf, I acknowledged it was indeed crooked, then ignored it. But Zach can not ignore such things, saying if I left it as is, a bottle might fall and break. So he springs to action to fix it, and promptly drops and breaks a wine bottle: <\/p>\n We all laughed for 5 minutes. Then we discovered blood mixed in with the wine. Zach spent an hour picking out 20+ shards of glass from his feet:<\/p>\n But that didn\u2019t stop him on our Mount Olympus hike the next day: 6 hours, 7 miles, 5,000 feet up (10k ft summit):<\/p>\n Nick got so excited on this part of the climb that his legs fell off:<\/p>\n For you curious hikers, here is a Google earth view<\/a>:<\/p>\n Here is a 360 photosynth view from the top:<\/p>\n http:\/\/photosynth.net\/userprofilepage.aspx?user=brucewinter&content=Synths<\/a><\/p>\n We had lots of pool fun:<\/p>\n Here I was teaching the boys my childhood trick for getting on the diving board directly from the pool:<\/p>\n After which many un-successful attempts were made:<\/p>\n Until Zach discovered the secret, which involved some alcohol:<\/p>\n We also had some nice visits with Abby:<\/p>\n And lots of fun with our desk chair balls. One of the challenges was to try to get a ball fully submerged. Many techniques were tried:<\/p>\n In the end, a 3 person team approach worked:<\/p>\n But not on this try:<\/p>\n Here we are seeing who can head bounce a ball the highest:<\/p>\n And here we are seeing who can stay balanced on top of a ball the longest:<\/p>\n Zach and George were the masters of this, but out of the water, Nick was the master ball balancer:<\/p>\n He is also the master of upside-down-ness:<\/p>\n And master of the one legged squats: <\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n