Visiting the Getty Villa

We visited the Getty Villa. It is a museum located in the Los Angeles area by the ocean near Malibu. It is a gorgeous place! The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa is home to an extended collection of Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiques, one of America's finest holdings of ancient art.

This museum is a big house (villa) modeled after a Roman country house.
The Atrium was the main public room in a Roman house. The ceiling, open to light and air, allowed rainwater to enter and be capture in, where it was channeled to a underground cistern. The Romans were experts in creating houses that utilize the rain water well.

Inside the galleries

The exhibits are well presented

Which one is Zulita?

The Getty Villa is modeled after the Villa dei Papiri, a Roman country house in Herculaneum buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvirus in A.D. 79. Because most of the Villa dei Papiri remains unexcaved, many of the Getty Villa's architectural details are based on elements drawn from other ancient Roman houses in the towns of Pompeii, Herculanaeum and Stabiae.

A court garden inside the museum.
The Romans liked water and statues in all their gardens.

Beautiful long hall ways with great pillars

The main garden has a big long pool.
Outer Peristyle garden offered a peaceful place for conversation and contemplation.

Enjoying the garden by a fountain. Love the tranquil sound of the water.
I thing I want one of these fountains for our backyard at home:-)

There were statues among the gardens.

Gordon enjoying a walk around the pillars

Media Center Christmas Dinner

The Adventist Media Center Christmas Dinner was Thursday with great food, a keynote speaker and everything. I was expecting an intimate dinner with 40, 50 people, but there were hundreds of people there. They filled a whole banquet hall at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library where the dinner was held. At arrival everyone went on a free tour of the library museum and then there was the banquet hall reserved by Media Center. It was a dressed up event so Gordon wore his suit that he had not use in a long time. He looked very handsome! Above is a picture of our table.

A Dish Garden

A beautiful Dish Garden sits on our kitchen window. This was a gift from Nancy L. and her husband. I am surely enjoying it. Gordon has not see it yet because he is at his mother's house for a month now. Thank you Nancy:-)

Archery

Students at our school had a great day learning and and practicing the skill of archery. Mr. West came to train and teach the students. He owns and runs his own archery school. His students participate in national competitions and have won many medals at national championships. Following are some pictures of our fun archery adventure.

We started the day with a whole school worship right at 8:00 am. Mr. West presented a great worship to start the day. Then he gave them a good training and got them excited about learning the skill of archery.

My class went first in getting the training. Our class was from 8:30-10:00 am.
We had a great time leaning about archery and having chances to practice.
The older graders went back to their classroom and did their training later in the day.

A Meal with Friends

Had a delicious Friday night dinner at the Dunstons home. The Dunstons are close friends of Mom and Dad Harty.

Dad Harty's Memorial

Dad Harty unexpectedly passed away Wednesday October 29. We are all very sadden by his death. We are missing him so much. Thank you for your prayers. There are a lot of adjustments for Mom Harty now. Pray for her so she can have the support she needs from the people in her life and our heavenly father. Dad Harty was a great man and he is surely missed.

Full church for Dad Harty's memorial service



The family by Dad Harty's picture

At the grave site nine days after his passing

Our School 2008 Jog-a-Thon

We had our annual school Jog-a-Thon. Our students did worked hard, had fun and raise over ten thousand for our school. I am so proud of them.

Streching and warming up

Runing

sometime walking

Lancaster

Yesterday we traveled to Landcaster California. It was a beautiful blue sky 70F fall weather and we got there a little before church service. Gordon was invited to present at the afternoon Bible Workers training but we decided go early enough to also be there for church.



The pastor Joe Cirigliano doing the Bible Workers Boot Camp training. He is very good and energetic.

Gordon doing his presentation at the Bible workers Training meetings about a web project he is working on. He had great feedback from the people presents there.

Gordon had fun catching up with his
boss back when he workded many summers
at Leani Medows (Northern California Conference camp). He worked at Leani Madows during his high schools days







After the meetings for the day were over we took a little ride
at around the city and visited the musical street. As your
drive there is a song that the road plays for you. Play the video
above and listen very careful and see if you can hear the song.

New Visitors to Our Backyard Garden

This year we have had new new visitors to our backyard garden.

They are always this bright orange-red you see in the pictures.

We like them better that the butterflies that visited our garden in previous years because they are not laying eggs. We loved the colorful butterflies, but anytime they visited weeks later we had an infestation of caterpillars eating our plants leaves and keeling them slowly. It was a work of a few weeks of watching our garden carefully to get the caterpillars of the garden.

This visitors are welcome as long as our garden grows nice and healthy

Hiking at The Rocky Mountains National Park

Hiking at the Rocky Mountain National park was a lot of fun! The weather was in the mid 70s and sunny, just perfect. The hiking trails are well define and well taken care off. Following are just some of the pictures we took of some of the waterfalls and different lakes we came across in our hike.