the great move west

2005 was the first time I had traveled out to Cali to race in Oceanside at the half-Ironman. My brother Hans was out there with me too, as he was on spring break and hanging out in Palm Springs (pic from Ocean Beach).



Emily closed the doors on our Boulder house, our memorable Colorado lifestyle, packed up the car with Thor and Izzy and drove out to Cali last weekend. She was born further up north in Walnut Creek when her Dad was captaining ships out of Benecia in the Bay Area (pic of Emmy topping the climb up Sunshine Mtn at 9,000+ feet).

Currently we are living with Kendra, Emily's sister, in Mission Valley but forge ahead with our search for a place to lay our stake out here.

Go Vikes!

Weekend update

I joined Lars on his last run in Boulder this morning. We came home and Lars shoved what else he could into any empty space that was in the Expedition before he took off on the long drive to San Diego.



Here is a picture of Thor's incision. Yikes. He seems to be recovering fairly well and is sleeping a lot. He's using his leg a little more but he is hating life in the lampshade:

Thorskie

Thor is out of surgery and the vet says everything went very well. We go to pick him up tomorrow afternoon.

Izzy is very lonely and will be glad to have her buddy back home.

Glad to see the Hawkeyes winning the Orange Bowl. Too bad Minnesota couldn't pull through against Iowa State.

Surfing in SD

Thor is scheduled for surgery next week for his R knee. Hopefully, in 4 months or so he will look like this:

xc skiing at north boulder park

We both fell twice as the snow (and our form) kept getting more and more sloppy. But, Em was the only one to lose their pole tip in the snow!