SG50 Airshow

I don't know how well you can see it, but this was a 4 plan formation, they did up to 6 planes going behind the Marina Bay Sands buildings

We were across the bay at the Esplanade Mall.  

This was one of the other activities: Human Bowling, Human Foosball and a few bouncy things. This was by far the least number of people I've ever seen in Singapore at one time.  Unless I was at home, or it was 6:00 in the morning. After this, we decided to go to the BK that was pretty close then go to some more stuff. The BK had probably 400 times more people in it, took about an hour and 15 minutes to get our food and eat. So then we just went home. We were with the Garners and Hawkins. 

The Merlion is Alive, Alive I tell you!

This was part of the SG50 celabration (Singapore turning 50 as a country). They had some awesome light shows on the Sentosa Merlion. 

 A lego Merlion? What! 

Random Rodeos and other pictures

Rodeo Excitement. Ever since the girls saw some Rodeo queens signing autographs in the mall, they've been enamored with Rodeos. 

This was the Snake River Stamped, and was the 100th anniversary (started in 1915)

Jace loved sitting with Papa Mustache 

Suzy wore her cute cowgirl shirt. You can tell cause it has something like plaid on it. 

Kate. In a tree. 

Work BBQ at a park in Meridian. 

Arrggghhh

Some fun pictures of Brighton making her faces

Seriously

Okay, possibly

Yeah, right

mmmmmmmm

Faith got a hold of the Camera, in fact, she was the photographer for Brighton

Who doesn't like a nice picture of a hairy ear?

Selfie!

I like to call this look Purple Iron - you have to scroll super fast.

First the hair styling begins. 

Super fun. 

sorry, but beauty hurts, It's all worth it in the end. Kate "toughen up, it's not that bad, you're just exaggerating" (as she comes out with handfuls of hair).

grrr....

CastleRock Fun - Garden of the Gods (not the Galaxy however)

We went to Garden of the Gods (south of Castle Rock I believe). it was fun, the kids had a blast, of course so did I (who wouldn't have fun with rocks and dirt etc). 

Mom had a walking boot. From the time when she had hiked Castlerock with her Montessori class and  30 Ninja's attacked and she had to hold them off until the children were safe.  She got her foot stuck in one of them and ended up twisting her ankle as she did back handsprings down the mountain after everyone else had gotten away. If only she'd had time to shake that ninja off her foot first. 

Little missus sassypants. 

we're all happy and cute, except one, who is only cute. 

I had three pictures like this, then three like the one just below this. 

Just like superman and Clark Kent could never be in the same room at the same time, nor can Brighton's and Suzy's smiles. 

More evidence...

These two little munchkins had more fun together than any two people have a right to. I'm talking about the two boys in the front, not the guy in green and lady in purple. 

Brighton is just a happy, nice child. All the time. 

Luckily for those sitting above, the boys were willing to hold up the rocks. 

Poor Jace was getting tired when Tate and Elliot got bored holding up the girls. 

The Sibs. 

Have you ever had a worse hand? I had to take a picture as proof. 

Marsh was great with the kids, as always. here's Jace, Red eyed, tired.  

High School Musical. 2.

Kate had "Late night" at a friends house (they and we don't do sleepovers, so they got to stay until 10pm).  She's telling Suzy about it now, and I quote:
Suzy, "How was the Late Night?"
Kate, "It was amazing"
Suzy, "What made it so amazing"
Kate, "I love, like really love High School Musical 2!!"
Suzy, "Oh, you finally got to watch it"
Kate (a bit breathlessly), "Oh yes, it was wonderful!"

I've never seen High School Musical 2. I did see parts of one, which I've tried to scrub out of my memory.  However, I do remember the basketball scenes, where they try to make it seem like actors who don't play basketball are basketball stars. They do have really good dance moves using the basketballs though, very well choreographed.

Suzy, facetiously said, "Yeah, dad thought they were really good at basketball."
Kate (not facetiously), "They were amazing! They are really good"

When I tried to explain that they really weren't, and that you could tell by the awkward attempts at dribbling the ball, she let me know that probably they just got better since the first movie, because they were so good at everything, and she was sure there were professional players in the movie as well.

New Zealand Some more, part deux

Imagine Dragons, Auckland 2015. I realized a few things. I've only ever heard recordings of concerts and always been unimpressed.  Now I know why people attend, the sound is incredible, and the atmosphere quite powerful.  The visual effects were pretty cool as well.  It was quite fun, much more so than I expected.  

Here's an example of a recording that doesn't do justice to the actuality of being there, but is still somewhat cool. 

1 Video of the Maori Dances -

Here is one of the warrior dances

Here they are coming in on their war canoe

Here's Suzy about to fall backwards off a plank into 45+ feet of oblivion

Here is Suzy going for a 15 Meter drop, falling backwards after Zip lining to this platform. Yes, she's pretty much a ninja.

Here's a view of the top of the zipline, as it disappears off into the mist.  

Here's us getting ready to ride the Zip line. It was AWESOME.  I had to close my eyes as it was raining and after building up speed they were about to be cut to ribbons. 

Here was the start of the Luge.  It was also AWESOME! and long and you got to go pretty darn fast

Here's me going down the luge. Suzy was nice enough to stop and record.

 Gotta lean into those turns

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Here was a view from the top of the Luge area

We are super extreme 

 

This was made from Jellie Bellies

We took a walk through the redwood "grove" (it's only 100 years old or so, they don't term it a forest)

Even through they were only 100 years old, it was still amazing

We went a degustation experience.  It was quite fun, my food choices were good. 

Degustation is a culinary term meaning a careful, appreciative tasting of various foods and focusing on the gustatory system, the senses, high culinary art and good company. Dégustation is more likely to involve sampling small portions of all of a chef's signature dishes in one sitting.

This was venison in curry sauce. 

I can't remember what Suzy ordered. This probably had mushrooms in it. 

So, Suzy finally tried Abalone (a type of Mollusk). It's super expensive. It also wasn't that great. It was okay once it was ground up with some kind of sauce and put on a yummy toast.  The straight up Abalone was rubbery and not that tasty. Especially not for $90 for a 3oz can.

This was super tasty in Bangkok - a Coconut milk shake in a Coconut.