la Paz, BCS

Hola friends!

We went on vacation and started it in LA last Sunday night. We hopped around to some cool places including a bar called Melody Bar and Grill. Inside the bar/restaurant there was a game that you play $2 to play and it is just like the claw that gets you a stuffed animal but instead it is a claw that you guide into an aquarium to catch a live lobster!!!! If either of you uncools got a fb account you woulda seen it last week. I shall text you the picture; as a biologist I am totally against it but as an American what a fabulous idea....oh yeah, if you catch a lobster they will cook it for you..duh!?

We flew outta LA and started south. It was pretty cool to see the CA coastline from the lil plane and then we got down to Baja and it became so barren south of Ensenada. It's not a blog from Amanda unless some pictures are outta order:)

If you dbl click on this you will see a pipefish swimming just below the water in the middle. They were pretty cool.

The sea lions were ridiculously playful and friendly. I still feared that they would bite my arm just because it looked meaty...or any part of me for that matter.

Seriously, just like Riggs...always playing!

This is some sort of rockfish or sculpin. Not sure, but it looked just like a rock and Shyama was actually standing right beside it adjusting his snorkel mask above the water. crazy.

We were in school with the fish!

There is a starfish, almost, dead center. I think it's a sunshine starfish.

Another cool star fish.

All good in the underwater hood.

seafish.

a sea egg, I originally called it a sea biscuit.

a really cool sea fish

starfish of sort

Happy Birthday, honey!

el playa de Tecolote.

Our palapa at la playa de Tecolote.

No, we didn't bring edibles.

Yummy, maragaritas!! We had no idea what was in store for dinner. I wish I would have taken more photos of food.

before dinner, after margaritas!

el Malecon, this is the promenade or 'malecon' they call it. It is right downtown and this is a photo taken from our boat headed out into the bay.

This is a whale shark.

This is a whale shark coming at you. Lucky you weren't swimming in front of it like Shyama...

This is a whale shark underneath your boat..almost capsizing..not really, but it kinda felt like it when the boat bumped the whale or shark.

An island off la isla el Espiritu Santo.

Sea Lion colony.

the rocks off the island.

rocks, islands.

playa de balandra. We rented snorkel equipment and went out on a different reef. It was pretty cool to be out there by ourselves.

sunshine, yes please!

cliff sides to some of the water.
blue footed BOOBIES!!!!!

Still from the boat.

a hotel bar on top of 7 floors looking down on el Malecon.

Birthday lunch! Tacos de tripe and coctel de camarones.

a porcupine fish all puffed up on the beach...dead.

Happy 32nd, Honey!

In Mexico, not only are you killing yourself by smoking but you are (apparently, also) killing the mouses, too!

playa de Balandra.

sunset at Tecolote.

a night in the room can be just as fun.

Happy Birthday, Shyam! I cannot wait to do it again, oxox!

Movie Time!

Hola,
I got a little carried away when I was just trying to get some footage of Riggs last night. It dawned on me that I needed to start making videos because before I know it, my pup won't be a pup anymore. Well one thing turned into another, and now I have a video about a day (actually night) in the life of my dog. So please enjoy the "Life of Riggs!"



Hope everyone is doing good and I'll catch up with you all soon.
sh

Catching up

I was supposed to start with Paul's wedding but managed to lose them. The pictures below will have to suffice for all! This is sunset at Ocean Beach on my birthday. If at all possible you both should definitely make your way back now that we are more acquainted with the area!

It's my birthday at the beach! Day drinking at the beach 33 years later...I wish everyone could've handled their alcohol the way I did, hahahahaha :) good times were had. I should have been wearing sunscreen

I believe it is called sunset jump!

Not everyone made it to dinner...I'm not sure I was there... End o the night...hey, atleast we never let the sun go down...from our faces! NO, we haven't been drinking for 14 hours...what makes you think that?....nonsense!

And now Introducing.....wait for it!!!!!.....Shyam's new motorcycle!!! 2002 Honda Shadow Sabre....he is still loving it. And when I see AND hear him pulling into the driveway, I think, 'that is a good looking man on a good looking bike!'

Here we are in Prescott for Paul and Kohl's wedding weekend.

He is getting sooo big and cute...for a mostly white baby:p

Our beautiful girl on our Portland rug. We love them both soooooo much!

Some cool places and critters I have seen....

el Capitan reservoir with the marine layer rising off

This is the valley we live in...There is a yard that we fly out of that is ~6 miles from the house. When we fly into the Cleveland NAtional forest sometimes this layer of clouds is still settling.

This photo of Coronado island was taken from the top of a mountain ~55 miles east... with perfect lighting!

This little guy was awesome! I watched him for forever and when he posed on this rock..that was it! It reminded me of Riggs on the tiles!

This was a red diamond rattlesnake that made his appearance at the end of our work day...thank goodness....i did not have to relocate him since we were leaving anyway....phew...scary!

Argiope argentata... very cool

This is a granite night lizard..he was pretty chill because we broke apart the rock that he lived in...but he was relocated unharmed and just beautiful!!!!

Stumptown/Funtown

I did it!!! The lazy dog posted...finally. Pictures from our Portland trip have now been analyzed and judged by yours truly. And it is determined that I would benefit from a photography class or five. There were about 25 pictures taken of the Mackinac Bridge in Michigan. Yeah, it looked like I was stalking the rv in front of us because its in most of the pics.

Anyway, enjoy the pics and thanks again for the Microbrews! I'll let yeah now when I pop the tops on them :)

The chillin' villain's!

These two must practice having their picture taken, it's too perfect.

Aww...the bungalow, we'll be back.

Anything you can do I can do better!

I think we all got this shot.

No alcohol was consumed in the making of this picture (but Shyama looks a little suspect).

My favorite.

T in a different light.

One big happy family.

Cutey or Nerdy? :)

Banff, Canada

Forgot to look for the cubs mom, she ate Taj.

Taj pre-bear mauling.

Can you find the dummy in this pic?

Natures pretty......pretty powerful.











Calgary, greeted us with hail...bitch.

Driving no bueno.

The only pretty picture from the Canadian Grasslands. I'm sure there are nice scenes in the Prairie but we didn't see them. It seemed like 1000 miles of straight driving at a 1 degree down-slope from the Rockies. But none-the-less, I had fun.

Take care everyone and catch up with ya soon.
sh