San Jose Ice Rink

I worked in San Jose, California for a week putting together a temporary holiday ice rink. It was interesting work, but as I was so busy I didn't have any time to see any of San Jose or the surrounding area. The Adobe company could be seen from here as well as many other software companies.

Hopefully from the pictures, you can see that it was constructed around palm trees. This and the fact that daytime temps were around 75 F, made it interesting as well as a lake during the afternoons.

It's part of the business districts to attract customers downtown during the holiday season. Along with this there is a Christmas village across the street in Cesar Chavez plaza.

• Posing for a pic just before opening. The corner was the most difficult on the entire job site.

• This is looking at the rink from the front with the safety fences still in place.

• The ice melting during the day in 75 F heat.

• The infamous corner looking great!

• This is what the corner looked like w/o the covering on it. All of this had to be custom built w/o damaging any of those pipes.

Halloween

The Usual suspects

L-R Michael, Ronan, Nathan, Phillip
Cute little Ronan

Here are some photos of Halloween evening with a Friend Michael. Ronan is the Skeleton and Phillip in the reaper. Yes........Ronan actually chose THAT mask. We weighed their candy bags afterward and they weighed approx 6lbs.!

Beacon Rock

Manuela and the boys on top.



Looking to the East.



Back to the sunny side of the rock.



The Boys.


Looking down the "trail".


We decided quite awhile ago to climb Beacon Rock. We got some input and a good report from Ruth and Jim. Yes there were railing but I can tell you that being afraid of heights made some serious lactic acid build up in my muscles. I stayed silent only to let Ronan know that being afraid was OK.

Switzerland has these same kind of 1000K ft drops also, and it reminded of that.

Once we reached the peak it was pretty breezy which isn't unusual for the gorge.

Pickin' Pumpkins

We went with the Gowens to the Pumpkin patch to get our Pumpkins and had alot of fun. We've been going to Bi-Zi farms for almost eight years and it has grown every year, it's pretty amazing. the corn maze is getting way easier, although we met people along the way that would disagree with us.

Soccer Saturday

Today the boys played for their club team, Salmon Creek Soccer Club. Here are a couple of pics from their games.

Heute der bubbe fuer der mannshaft Salmon Creek Soccer Club hat gespielt. Hier sind ein paar bilder von die spiele.

The pictures from Left to Right are Phillip scoring a goal.

Bilder von links nach rects sind Phillip schiest ein Tor.

Ronan taking a shot. Ronan nimt eine schuss.

Phillip dribbling the ball. Phillip bringt das ball vorwarts.

Ronan on the MOVE! Ronan BEWEGT!

Both scored two goals today! Beide haben zwei Tore geschossen!

The Begining, der Anfang

Today is the day that we begin to write.......a Blog, about us........for you. It should allow most of you to keep up with us when you want on your own time. Please feel free to ad your comments and communicate a little this way. Your opinion is important to us, as well as you are. You'll notice that it'll have another language in each post. That is due to the fact that other family members from a different country(Germany) will also be reading it.

So, enjoy and tell us what you think!

Heute ist der erste tag das wir schrreiben........eine Blog, ueber uns.........fuer euch. Es soll viel von ihr mit uns zu wissen wenn du willst auf dien eigine zeit. Bitte fulle frei zu commentieren und mit uns reden mit diese Blog. Diene meinung ist wictig fur uns, und ihr sied auch zu uns. Wir schreiben dieses Blog in Ami English auch, viel adeeren in America lesen es auch.

Also, genissen und sagen was du denkst!