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Angel Island on fire

We spent the day with Sharon and Paul down in the Monterey Bay area.  Once we got home about 11 PM I walked to the back of the house and saw a catastrophy.  There were giant, orange glowing sections of Angel Island.  I immediately thought that there had been a plane crash on the island during one of the airshows during the day’s Fleet Week events.  Turned to SFGate.com and they are just calling it a wild fire and no mention of a plane crash.  So that’s good, no one lost their life, except for the island.  We almost went to the island a few weeks back when Phil was visiting, but got to the ferry area too late to have enough time to take it in.  I regret it now because who knows when we’ll have another opportunity to see it.  It is going to take years for the island to recover.

I was able to snap some photos, here they are:

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And a really crappy video:

UPDATE: To see pics from the day after checkout the full gallery.

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Nikola Roundup

My turn to talk about our “Nikola experience”.  I had a lot of fun.  Nikola is very very active and wore me out in only a few days.  I seriously need to get back into shape and soon.  The good news is this has begun.

I never imagined how much energy it takes to watch a 3 year old.  I must say that I do appreciate the job Mom and Dad did raising three boys that much more.

Here are a handful of shots I took while we were playing in the park just up the street from us:

Nikola in the tunnel

Nikola profile while on the slide

Nikola up close

Nikola on the swing

Nikola kicking a soccer ball

Nikola on the swing 2

And here’s one video from us having dinner on Tuesday night

Overall it was a great experience and one that will surely help us some day down the road.

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Goodnight from Nikola

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