Our friends Adrian and Esteban came with us to the California Science Center. Here they are playing a virtual sports game in front of the blue screen.
After going through a few pulleys, this rope is attached to an SUV which can be lifted by the children, if they choose to pull on the rope with the greatest leveredge.
Davis was working on his golf merit badge (not nearly as fun as the citizenship in the community merit badge that the Kellers must have been working on (see Kellers' blog)). We went to the little par 3 golf course and dodged blowing leaves to complete 9 holes.
Nathaniel played his first 9 holes. Mom did better with the photos than with the golf... and the photos aren't that great.
Davis is showing some pre-teen tendencies and did not want to pose for a photo with his mom and grandparents.
Chris took this photo to show how much fun his mom and I were having making pies together for Thanksgiving. And then he sent it to his sister Caryn to rub it in. We did have fun though.
This is a plaque showing an old hotel that was built up in the mountains above Pasadena. The only way to get there was to hike, take a mule train, or a crazy funicular train called the Mt. Lowe Railroad that pulled the cars up a really steep mountain.
Chris and the boys are on the remains of the foundation of the old hotel. You can see in the previous picture there are stairs in the lower right quadrant of the hotel picture. They would be on the railing at the top of the stairs (if the railing were still there).
We hiked up up up for 2.7 miles to get to this burned-down hotel. It was a lovely day in So. Cal.
Davis hiked all the way with an ingrown toenail. OUCH!
Nathaniel is calling through an "echo phone" that was placed behind the old hotel facing a canyon. It directs your voice up a dead-end canyon across the way and comes back with about a 8-10 second delay.
This is one of the huge wheels that pulled the cables to bring the train cars up the incline railway.
This is a leftover railcar from the railway which was discontinued in 1937. There were a lot of resort camps and hotels in the mountains above Pasadena in the first few decades of the 1900's. It seems to have been very fashionable to "rough it" at these camps that provided the transport of all the baggage, meals, and entertainment like dances.
Nathaniel is at the trailhead which is a gate from an old estate.
Nathaniel loves the new sock monkey his grandmother gave him for his birthday (next week). We have all been kissed and hugged by the monkey over the last few days.
This is Thanksgiving dinner. Chris brought home the flowers Wednesday. The were so pretty with roses, lilies, carnations, and mums in autumn colors.
The day before Thanksgiving Chris suggested we go to lunch at Heirloom Bakery. What a great idea. We had a great lunch, and were so full that I didn't have to make dinner either. It was also nice because we put the boys at their own table so they could make their potions with the sugar cubes and soda without the grownups grousing at them.
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Looks like you had a great Thanksgiving! I think Grant would have rather have been golfing too.
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