I came across this Chinese interpretation of the 80s today. Absolutely hilarious.
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We recently returned from a very welcome and relaxing vacation to Bear Lake. It was a long drive, but we had a lot of fun and were happy that so many family members took time to come up and hang out! I have a ton of pictures that I collected from all the cameras that I saw - I will get them posted once I get a chance to go through and remove the redundant ones. A few highlights of the trip: * The drive up Logan Canyon - this drive is well seated in my memory. Logan Canyon is beautiful and is the last leg of the trip. At the top of the canyon, you get a great view of beautiful Bear Lake down below. I don’t remember ever personally throwing up in this canyon, but I’m sure our family has not always arrived without incident (Matthew?). * Launching rockets. As I alluded to in an earlier post, this has become a bit of a tradition. This time around we had a couple of days of launching, one more successful than the other. The first day we launched there was little to no wind, making it an ideal time to launch. We didn’t lose a single rocket (a rarity) and launched a wide variety of rockets with different engine sizes. The second day was quite windy. One rocket was finally found in the lake (sorry Amber - we should have tilted the launcher a bit more). One rocket landed on the roof and lost a couple of fins once it was finally retrieved. Half of the big daddy rocket landed in a tree, but again was later recovered. I don’t think we actually ended up losing any rockets in the end. Fun times * Waverunners. Or as Darcy puts it “si-doos” :). These things are fun toys. They are addicting, really. The only downside is that my back was aching after a couple of days of riding. Everybody got a shot at riding and I think everybody got a shot at driving one too. I have to say that riding on one of these behind Matthew, Jason, or Kyle was pretty scary until I realized there was a seat strap to hold onto (even then, it could get rather dicey). When you outweigh the person you’re holding onto by more than 2x, you don’t feel real secure on the back of a waverunner. * Pickleville Playhouse. Darcy and I went with my parents to the melodrama titled “Chuck Wagon’s Wild West Showdown.” In the past the melodramas have been only so-so, but this one was a lot of fun. They had some very clever humor and great comedic timing to boot. We all had a very good time. * Shakes. The Bear Lake area is famous for their raspberries. Unfortunately the raspberry days festivities were scheduled for the week after we were there, so I’m not sure we had any fresh raspberries in our shakes. Nevertheless, you can’t go to Bear Lake and not have a shake (or 5). * Golf. There were no potty incidents on the mini golf course this year (that I know of), so that was nice ;-). This is another Bear Lake staple for the family. This year a few of us went real golfing too. We hacked out some pretty nice divots and generally irritated the other golfers with how slow we were moving :-). Let’s just say none of us will be getting on the PGA tour anytime soon. * Hanging out with the family. We had a few good cookouts and mostly enjoyed one another’s company. The Ideal Beach resort we stayed at is a different type of timeshare resort from many that we stay at. Often times at other places there are limits as to how many people you are allowed to sleep in your unit. However, it was pretty clear that we weren’t the only ones who exceeded the stated unit limitations. I think we had 17 in there for Saturday night! It was a lot of fun spending time with so many of the family. Thanks for coming, everybody! Last but not least, a link to pictures. Careful, there are a lot of them! In preparation for our trip to Bear Lake in about 1 week, I went out and purchased another model rocket. Launching model rockets has become a Taylor family Bear Lake tradition. The Bear Lake area is literally littered with our lost rockets. It’s rather remarkable that nobody has ever been injured by any of these projectiles. It’s a lot of fun! The store I went to had a number of rockets to choose from, ranging in price from around $6 to $30. The engines that drive these things are where most of the cost lies - they run $7 or $8 for a package of three. This year, I think I’ll feel lucky if I’m able to actually launch my rocket with all of the engines that I bought (6). Rockets can sometimes be hard to find post-launch :-). See you at Bear Lake! P.S. If anybody is really ambitious, I’d like to see something like what this youtube video has With Darcy away this weekend in Colorado, I decided to make a trip out to the coast to do some hiking. This part of Oregon is such an idyllic place to wander - I hiked up Neahkahnie mountain on Friday evening around dusk. I camped at Nehalem Falls on Friday night and hiked out to Cape Falcon on Saturday morning. The old growth forests are always so peaceful and cool. Not only are the trees old and large, but the ground is covered with all sorts of smaller, shrubby, plant life, including the occasional wildflower. The paths are generally soft and fairly dry this time of year as the rains have dried up, leaving a nice carpet of pine needles and other plant debris. As if that weren’t nice enough, all of this bumps up right against the Pacific coast, complete with beaches and crashing waves. It was a nice weekend away for me - check out the pictures if you like (note: this is intended to entice you to come visit us in Oregon soon). Story here. Update: Seems this video is no longer on youtube, but you can see the video by clicking on the story link… |
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