A night at the symphony

A little over a week ago I had an opportunity to take my brother with me to see the Pacific Symphony play a tribute to John Williams. It was a really neat concert.

Here is a shot of the stage before the concert started.

Here are a few shots of the actual concert.

And here is a shot of Aaron during the intermission.

And a shot of your's truly during the intermission.

For the last piece (Raider March) there was also a fireworks display.

Here's the orchestra during the final piece.

And more shots of fireworks!

I really liked how this shot turned out with the blue colors!

After the concert was over, while we were on our way out, we ran into a couple of interesting characters!

As well as a very interesting looking car!

Here you can see the difference in colors between Aaron's camera phone and mine. Personally I like these next two pictures better, but I may be biased. :)

Here Aaron decided he wanted to have his picture taken with the car!

And that's all for this time, thanks for stopping by!

A Day at Sea World

Here's a post for all you animal lovers out there!

I got to spend the day at Sea World yesterday and the following are some pictures I took.


Starting off, we got some great views of the polar bear(s)!

Then from the underwater view we got to see a Walrus.

And a Beluga Whale!

Since none of the pictures inside the Penguin Encounter turned out, here's a few of the South American penguins outside!

Here they are in line to get fed!

But what's this! An intruder pulling the towel off of the fish pail!

And now he's stolen a fish!

Here he is taking a peek to see if the trainers have noticed his sneaky stealing!

Apparently so!

(Believe it or not, that actually happened!)



Here's a few shots from the Shamu show!

And the Dolphin show!

Actually this is a pilot whale!
(In the dolphin show, go figure?!?)

Another Dolphin, this one jumping for the flag!

And here's the rest of them!

And that concludes this post, Hope you enjoyed it!

Thanks for stopping by!

A long overdue update

Considering it's now been over a month since I posted anything,
I decided, since I had a few free minutes, I would post an update.

Ok, since I am calling this a "horn players blog"
I decided I should post a picture of a horn,
or more specifically "my" horn.

So here is my horn!!!

And here is where I spend most of my evenings,
and if you think I'm kidding just ask my family.

And when I'm not practicing horn
this is usually where you'll find me.

Here's a memorable moment that happened in the last month.
I got to meet and get my picture taken with "Coach" Wooden!

What else happened this last month?

Well, other than working a lot of long hours
and starting a new treatment, not much.

July actually went by rather quickly
and now we're a week into August already.

I'll try to use my camera a little bit more this month.
If anything exciting happens I'll post something new.

Until then, thanks for stopping by!

4th of July Park Day

Hope you all had a wonderful 4th of July! I'm finally getting this up a day late since I was completely worn out after all of the activites of the park day. There wasn't quite as many people there as we sometimes have so some of us got a little extra exercise, and unfortunately I'm still feeling it a bit. I guess it's a sign I'm getting old...

But enough of an introduction I'm sure you're more interested in seeing pictures than hearing me ramble.

The pastor (my dad) pitched the entire game again for both teams!

Sometimes I wonder how he does it.

Here's Aaron putting a charge into one, I'm not sure if that's the one that ended up over the fence or not.

Here's the other team, watching as someone bats.

Jonathan must have really gotten a hold of that one!

Justin putting one into play.

These next two were "borrowed" (sorry) without asking,

though it's kind of hard to ask after 10:30 at night.

Here's Steven really laying into one!

Here's me, probably popping it up to Andrew out in left field. He seemed to be catching everything out there!

After softball was over a couple of us went to play volleyball.

Here's me getting ready to set one for Aaron.

Here's me again serving one. (I never realized how awkward I look when I do that!)

Ok, I'm either getting ready to hit the ball or I'm trying to keep the sun out of my eyes. Considering that I'm wearing sunglasses it's probably the former.

Jonathan looks like he's getting ready to crush the ball, while I get ready to attempt a block.

Please tell me he's not higher than me!

Jonathan and I getting ready to receive the serve.

Aaron attempting to hit over Jonathan's block.

Jonathan really got some air on that serve!

And Jonathan pounds another one!

If you saw the last picture on Andrew's blog post, this is the other side!

Unfortunately there wasn't much else to do, but the girls didn't seem to mind too much.

And they actually did get to play in a game after all!

After all that excitement I was pretty exhausted, and I look it too.

But overall it was a very fun day, and I'm glad I was able to make it instead of spending the day in the hospital like on Memorial Day. If you enjoyed reading this please feel free to leave a comment!

Thanks for stopping by!