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.

Continental Divide

Here we are at Continental Divide at Milner Pass. The elevation here is 10,759.
The Continental Divide is a natural boundary line separating waters that flow into the Atlantic Ocean or Gulf of Mexico from those that flow into the Pacific Ocean.

The sign reads: The "Great Divide" separates drainage to the Atlantic from drainage to the Pacific. It traverses America from Alaska almost to Cape Horn.
Atlantic Ocean Drainage. Cache La Poudre Creek drains into the Platte River, which flows to the Missiouri, then to the Mississippi, thus reaching the Gulf of Mexico (part of the Atlantic Ocean).
Pacific Ocean Drainage. Beaver Creek drains into the Colorado River which then flows through Grand Canyon National Park and on to the Gulf of California (a part of the Pacific Ocean).

Gordon standing on both sides of the continent. The picture does not show it but there is a line on the ground between Gordon's legs. His left foot is on the Pacific and his right foot on the Atlantic

The water from this lake continues and flows into the Pacific

The water from this lake continue and flow into the Atlantic.

A view from above of the canyon and the valley where Milner Pass is and the Continental Divide.

Happy Wedding Anniversary To Us!!!!

This year we celebrated our wedding anniversary on high! We celebrated at 12+ thousand feet high at the Rocky Mountain National Park:-) It is a BEAUTIFUL place.
We loved it there.

We stayed at a cottage at Estes Park (the town by the main entrances of this national park) and had access to the park easily. With our 7 days entrance pass we came in and out as we pleased. Following are some of the pictures of our first day there, July 15th, our wedding anniversary day:-)

This first day we did scenic drives. The views were spectacular! Very majestic! Somehow the mountains look smaller in the pictures. The pictures do not capture the distance,deepness/contrast of this place. The mountains canyons and valleys are huge when you are there in real life. To me, this was a very spiritual place.

As we drove, we stopped at different view points. We could not help but to do many of the short hikes up to the different view points.

Elevation 12,005 feet above see level

We are on top of the world!

Look at the beautiful Rockies behind me. They go further than the eye can see.

There are no trees at this area. Tress don't grow at this high altitude

Ran into some friends from northern California we had not seen in a few years. It was fun to catch up and visit with them. Above is a picture with them at the near by visitor center. Their children are not in the picture.
Can't believe we found Patsy, Joanna and family at 12,000 feet!

Here is when we are at lower elevation. Trees do grow in this area.

For part of the day we took the old scenic road. It took us to canyons and valleys, creeks, rivers, waterfalls, forest, and there were lots of wildflowers in this area. The mountains were always all around us everywhere we went.

This park is very clean and organize. The paths are very define and very well take care off.

Us and one of the many waterfall we found at viewing points

Gordon relaxing and enjoying the sounds of the water and nature by this creek/river

Rocky Mountain National Park Wild Flowers

Wild flowers are in bloom this time of the year in the Rocky Mountains National Park. Blooming happens later, July and August on the high mountains. We had a great time finding them as we walked along the different paths. Beautiful! Every flower we noticed was a delight and a treasure. Following are just a few of the many flowers. To see more click HERE

Our Cottage at Estes Park

At Estes Park, we stayed at a Bed and Breakfast Inn. It was really a few cottages that you can rent for 4 or more days. They are really nice and modern inside even with extra things like Jacuzzi tub, fire place, cable tv, some have kitchens (ours did not), and wireless. So we were able to use our computer and stay connected while we were there. Gordon loved sitting at the porch every morning to read for a while.

Gordon making friends with this Inn's dog. The dog was very tame and friendly.

This Inn is named after this nice dog. See the black dog welcome statute at the entrance of their main office.

Some of the other cottages at the Inn

Every morning we had breakfast with the other guest staying at the other cottages. Everyone talked about the places they visited and give each other tips on fun things to do in this area. Every breakfast was a small celebration of everyone's adventures of their visit at the Rocky Mountains National Park. The other guest were from Texas, and the Oklahoma, and Illinous, we were the only ones from California. They served big fancy breakfasts. We were so full each morning and were not hungy until about 4 P.M. each day.