365 Days of Californian Spartan in 2015: August 2007

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Tuesday August 28, 2007

Mitzi.... look its my worst nemesis.... a snail on our front sidewalk..... AAAAHHHHH

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Friday August 24, 2007

We finally got our wedding pictures developed... and I finally got to fill this frame!!!

Thursday August 23, 2007

Another one Jen???> Can't I just eat my dinner in peace???

Wednesday August 22, 2007

This was the tv that was waiting for me when I got home from San Jose.

Saturday, August 25, 2007

Sunday August 19, 2007

A picture of the sun as we are driving back from San Jose.... there was a fire somewhere and made the sky look really cool...

Saturday August 18, 2007

Our last day in San Jose we went to the mall.... then we headed over to the gymnastics meet... Pictured above is Tracy at the mall... and the USA womens gymnastics national team

We went and watched two nights of mens gymnastics and two nights of womens... This guy... who we called "doosh" not because he was a doosh but because of the way he walked... he walked with authority and we joked around that everytime he took a step the ground shook and it sounded like doosh... doosh.... doosh.... I guess you kind of had to be there... but anyways he won.... and is the mens national champion. David Durante....

Thursday August 16, 2007

Hanging out at our hotel on Thursday night. (For those that do not know why I was in San Jose: we went here for USAG National Congress and to watch the Visa National Championship... and if that still doesn't make any sense.... its a gymnast thing).

Wednesday August 15, 2007

These are the Spartan statues in San Jose. Tracy and her coach took us on a tour around San Jose State. They are also the Spartans.

Tuesday August 14, 2007

Sad day... mom left to back to Michigan!!!

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Monday August 13, 2007

SUCCESS!!!!!

We made homemade strawberry ice cream... with REAL FRESH blended strawberries!!!! :)

Monday, August 13, 2007

Sunday August 12, 2007

Making the ice cream in the soft serve ice cream maker...... We got a little ahead of our selves and didn't let it freeze long enough... so we had shakes today.... tomorrow we will try the soft serve again!!!!

Saturday August 11, 2007

The California Reception was held today at the Choates house!!!! We appreciate everything they do for us!!!! It definately does not go unnoticed! We had a fabulous time and a great turn out. It was nice to see all of those California people be able to attend and be a part of our very special day!!!!!

Friday, August 10, 2007

Friday August 10, 2007

Oh Mitzi... I am sure Kris will have to agree with me, when I say, paybacks a b*$!#. Isn't this a beautiful picture of you blowing out your candles??? After Brady and I took the redeye flight in we got into California at approximately 5 AM. We went home took a quick nap and then turned right back around to pick up my mom and Aunt Joyce at the airport around noon. We then looked at wedding pics and video and then went over to Jerry's for Mitzi's birthday celebration!!!

Happy Birthday Mitzi... I promise I will get you Tim McGraw for your birthday next year ;)

Thursday August 9, 2007 (Last day in Maui, Last day of honeymoon)

We said goodbye to the Grand Wailea Resort Hotel and Spa today.... it was a sad and depressing day. We took the redeye flight out on Thursday night. But we had an amazing time and will have many great memories from this trip! Aloha!

Wednesday August 8, 2007

Just one of the like 10 pools at our hotel. Our hotel had two huge water slides, a water elevator, four pools that connected to each other by four baby water slides, a beach style pool, a lazy river, a regular pool, a bar in the pool, and an adult pool.... oh yeah, as well as the hotel being right on the beach. Needless to say it was a pretty nice hotel. Our hotel room doubled in size from our one in Kauai (and our one in Kauai was nice...) our bathroom about quadrupled in size... It better have been nice I think we paid as much money to stay at this hotel for three nights as it cost for us to stay at the one in Kauai for the whole week)!!!

Tuesday August 7, 2007

We drove the infamous Road to Hana today. We stopped at multiple waterfall spots and a few hiking spots and finally reached the "Sacred 7 Pools" where Brady swam around and we both hiked around (I was not about to jump into those waters, because I saw black shrimp the size of my middle finger... and I also heard their were slugs around... so I just watched Brady!!!!) We stopped and saw a black sand beach on the way as well.

I am doing a lovely handstand pose near where the black sand beach was. (Once a gymnast always a gymnast).

We wrote down all of the falls names... but its late and I can't find it right now... so this is just one of the many falls we saw on the road to Hana.

As is this one.

August 6, 2007 (Maui)

We spent a few hours by the pool once we got into Wailea, Maui. Once we got checked into our room we headed out to Lahaina for an evening on the town. We ate dinner at Cheeseburger in Paradise and caught the sunset.... boy was it beautiful.

Sunday August 5, 2007 (last day in Kauai)

We were originally planned to take the helicopter ride at 9 30 AM on Sunday.. we get there at around nine o clock, drive down to the helipad just to find out it is cancelled (see they even cancel helicopter rides in addition to airplanes.....) There seemed to be something wrong with the helicopter... of course I am ticked because that was the ONE thing we REALLY wanted to do, and we scheduled all of our other things around this helicopter tour... so of course I was about in tears... and was about to just forget the whole thing and get our money back... but Brady the sense of reason talked to the guy and got us in a flight at 2 30... boy am I glad we didn't throw in the towel. (70% of the island you can not see by car). We saw the whole island, Waimea Canyon (which is known as the Grand Canyon of the pacific) we also saw Mount Wai'ale'ale (which is the wettest spot on earth raining anywhere between 600-800 inches a year, whereas the northshore of the island maybe rains 8 inches). We were able to see our hotel and much much more. It was truly my favorite part of our Kauai trip... and to think if it wasn't for Brady we would have given up on it.

Here is the Na Pali Coast

Here we are standing in front of our helicopter

Saturday August 4, 2007

We took a Catamaran up and down the Napali Coast of Kaui. There are only two ways to see the Napali Coast, either by sea or by air. Today we did it by boat, tomorrow we will do it by helicopter. These are just two of the twenty or so pictures we took of the coast. The sad part is, pictures don't even come close to showing the great magnitude and beauty of these cliffs and beaches.

Friday August 3, 2007

Brady and I did a kayaking, ziplining, hiking, cliff diving, rope swinging, and wagon riding excursion on Friday. It was an all day thing and totally fun! We kayaked down a river two miles, then we hiked to where the wagons were and went for a wagon ride, which followed our ziplining (which is pictured below) after that we hiked a little more to Kipu falls where we went cliff diving and rope swinging (the cliff was about 25 or so feet high until the water, same with the rope) both Brady and I enjoyed the jumping and the rope swing. After that we took the wagon back, hiked a little more, saw the rope swing that Indiana Jones swung on for a movie and took a motorized canoe back. It was SO MUCH FUN. It is so hard to pick just one or two pictures of the day, because we have so many....

Thursday August 2, 2007

This was the waterfalls right before queens bath.... We saw about ten to fifteen sea turtles here.... the next cove over me and brady did a little cliff jumping into the water... (mine looks more like a frog jump) Brady seemed to really enjoy the jumping into the water... I was a little afraid of the sea creatures... such as the HUGE turtles.... crabs, fish, whatever else is on the water... the really hard part was getting out... because their were these really slippery rocks with holes in them... and in the holes were of course sea urchins that did not have a problem spiking your finger... the jumping in was not scary it was the getting out.... I am sure it was really funny watching me try and get out.... Following that was Queens Bath, this was a nice little pool of ocean water that was about six feet deep and was totally protected and beautiful.

Wednesday August 1, 2007

Brady hula dancing with about 4 hula dancers at the Luau.... he had a few mai tais as liquid encouragement.... (I have some video of this ...... if you would like to see... it is quite funny)

Tuesday July 31, 2007

Going out to dinner our second night out there

Monday July 30, 2007

In the airport at LAX getting ready to fly to Lihue, Kaui

Sunday July 29, 2007

Mr. and Mrs. Burrill with Aunt Joyce and mom at our Sunday brunch after the wedding.

Saturday July 28, 2007 WE DID IT!!!

In the limousine!!!!

Friday July 27, 2007 (ONE MORE DAY)

Well I guess this is a "Burrill" family pic in front of the real Sparty in the new addition of the football stadium.

Thursday July 26, 2007

Brady getting a little tipsy at the Riv on Thursday night during Burgerama. Californians and Floridians don't know what to do with their money when a round of shots and two pitchers of beer total 15 bucks..... so what do they do,... spend more money on alcohol and get a little tipsy!!!