New Year's Eve - 2010

Our annual New Year's Eve in the driveway. We had carne asada, pollo asada and all the fixin's. Then headed outside for s'mores and some not so legal fireworks courtesy of a friend (I'm not naming names, given we live in a high fire area). Good times with friends (who for some reason are in no photos) and neighbors.

Osprey

These photos are completely out of order, but when you thought Drew was hard at work watching inmates, he was really bird watching. This is an Osprey he was able to capture some photos of.



These are photos Drew took appreciating our desert. I, for one, do not care for Joshua trees!



This is a hawk. I'm arguing that the hawk is so much prettier than the osprey. Drew disagrees.


And this is one of the osprey in flight.

La Brea Tar Pits

On Presidents' Day, we decided to venture out and ended up at the La Brea Tar Pits. The weather was great and we found a paleontologist out at Pit 61 working on a camel. I had no idea we had camels in Cali back then. Interestingly, there are no dinosaurs fossilized in the tar pits because dinosaurs became extinct before the tar pits formed.

Brian will do anything you ask him. Here, I asked him to go into the bamboo and act like a panda bear. He did.




Brandon's bling. Now that's a rock!



So Zed is a Columbian Mammoth (not wooly) and can you believe that he and Drew share the same disease?! I almost fell over when I read the sign.