Thank You Fernando!
image courtesy of NHL.com

Here is the video I took of Geoff at Mile 6. See how happy he is.

Pics of the vacation are up on my Shutterfly album. I really like the way Cate’s pictures display, so I opted to go with Shutterfly (Athena, see now you can enlarge them). Plus they are affiliated with Amazon.com. A link to the album can be found on the left (under links). The album is also listed on Elijah’s blog (under links).

Enjoy.

It’s always hard to leave SoCal, it feels like home.

Yes we did Disneyland (thanks Ali & Kevin), we had a dinner date at P.F. Chang’s (again, thanks Ali & Kevin), and we saw Laguna Beach. We did a ton of visiting, and it was more wonderful than I can put into words. It’s awesome being a Krolik! (thanks Jake & Cindy) As I said before, everyone there made us feel at home, and we miss our friends terribly.

Noteworthy Notes:
– My first Ben & Jerry’s (thanks Chris & Ashley)
– Oilers winning Saturday night
– the 4 husbands hanging out 😉
– Elijah at the beach
– Playing a great game of crib (hee hee)

Now I’m looking forward to September when Cate, Kaisara, Jen & Greg come to visit.

No big plans for this week. Sunday, for Father’s Day we’ll take Geoff back to the Original Pancake House. That’s about all that is going on here.

I’ll close with a quote from Dumb & Dumber.

Harry: I can’t believe we drove around all day, and there’s not a single job in this town. There is nothing, nada, zip!
Lloyd: Yeah! Unless you wanna work forty hours a week.

We made it home safely, not a bad flight. I’ll try to do a real post tomorrow.

We had a fabulous trip, and I can’t wait to go back.

Thanks everyone! We love you & we miss you already.

Thanks to Chris for having a link to this.

Brokeback To The Future

Back To The Future meets Brokeback Mountain.

Sigh. I’m having a wonderful time. I think we all are. Elijah loves having so many people to pay attention to him and fawn over him. I’ll work on getting some pictures up soon.

The marathon was a really neat experience. It was so much fun to watch (until the end), and to see Geoff and be able to cheer for him was awesome. Jen & Sean were great helping out with Elijah, driving all over San Diego, and Sean sharing with Geoff that he knew all that Geoff went through. Afterwards we aimed to go to In-N-Out, but with half the roads closed for the marathon, it just wasn’t gonna happen. We ended up at this diner called Brian’s. The food was yummy, and the portions were huge, I could have gone the rest of the day without food.

Sunday night we walked all along the harbor area taking in the sights and just getting fresh air. We had a small dinner out there, I had a salad, Geoff had clam chowder (in a bread bowl naturally). I can’t wait to get back to San Diego again, it’s such a neat town.

We drove safely (and in good time) up to Irvine. Geoff spent the afternoon at UCI (congrats Ryan!) and Cindy, Elijah & I took Amy out to lunch. Amy suggested Mustard (a deli) and I had a very tasty 3 cheese and pesto panini. I totally want a panini press now! I got all the wedding details then we dropped Amy back off at work and went to pick Abbie & Alec up from school. We had First Class Pizza for dinner, then Elijah went to bed, Cindy stayed here, and we took Abbie, Alyssa & Lexi to the church’s softball game. After softball, we met Alec, Ashley, Chris, Ali, & Kevin at Coldstone. It was a pretty good day.

Today should be more low-key. Elijah is napping, then we’ll go visit everyone at WCC this afternoon. At some point this week we have to get back to UCI because apparently they wanted to see me & Elijah as well.

Yes, I know about Roli. I wasn’t able to see the game, I’ll try and catch one this week. I was so upset, and a little mad about the whole thing. Now if the Oil pull this off (Jake says it could be a miracle), I will be impressed. I better get on praying (I’ve actually been praying for the Oilers the whole playoffs).

I’ll close with a quote from Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.

Mr. Ryan: It seems to me the only thing you’ve learned is that Caesar is a “salad dressing dude.”

Geoff did it, he’s fine, doing well. We’re heading out to In-N-Out. I’m starving for food! He’ll probably blog later.

Okay, I have 10 minutes before my ride to the race gets here, so I’ll try to get out as much as I can.

I love San Diego. It’s beautiful. We got in late Friday night (late being 8pm) got settled in the hotel and asleep by 9:30. Didn’t sleep well, none of us. Both last night and the nigh before, Elijah slept so fitfully, he doesn’t get into deep sleep until 3am.

We checked out the expo at the convention center yesterday (got Geoff a new running hat), and then met up with Anna, Francesco & Julia at Balboa Park. You need a few days to see all it has to offer, had we more time, I would have wanted to see some of the museums there. As it was, we just had a picnic lunch which was lovely and spent time watching the kids.

Last night Cate, Kaisara, Jen & Greg met up with us in the Gaslamp district and we had dinner. Not the original dinner we planned, but a nice one nonetheless. The best part was we had so much time to talk. I really missed them. We’re gonna get together again later this week, so Elijah has a chance to crawl around, instead of us passing him once someone got tired.

It’s go time. Geoff is as ready as he can be. My ride (Sean & Jen coming down) will be here soon, and I have to get Elijah’s car seat out of our car. I hope to go down to the harbour area this afternoon. Geoff said he’ll want to keep moving.

Stay Classy San Diego!

Happy 3rd Anniversary to Ali & Kevin! Can’t wait to see you next week.