Christmas pictures

I had a good Christmas break and I got to spend a lot of time with family. I decided to see exactly how boring my blog could get, and post more Christmas pictures. Between only posting every 3-4 months, and putting up boring posts and pictures, I will be surprised if my blog gets any hits this year. Anyway, in going with the boring theme, here are so pics over the last month in 2008:

I spent most of the break visiting my grandparents in Northern California and my grandparents in New Mexico.
I took this picture on Christmas morning in California. This was from the Arcata Marsh Project. It was a nice day.
This is my Grandpa (Gramps) on Christmas morning. He likes to complain a lot, but I think he had fun in spite of himself.

Gramps and Grams have had a year of increasing stress due to medical reasons. They told us they were not going to 1) decorate for Christmas and 2) they were not going to go shopping for Christmas presents. As you can plainly see from the above picture, these were blatant lies.

This is my Dad. We went out picture taking after Christmas. It was fun to get out of the house.

Some of the northern California beachscapes.

I also went to visit my Grandpa Lew and Grandma Ti in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I had never been to their house in Albuquerque. It was really fun to hang out with them and get to talk some.
A map of New Mexico, with Albuquerque highlighted. They used to live in Santa Fe, but moved a few years ago.

This is one of my favorite Christmas pictures. It is of me with my Grandpa Lew on top of the Sandia Mountain (we took the Tramway to the top).


This is me in the tramcar on the way back down the mountain.


The view on the way down the mountain in the tramcar.
The other tramcar and tower as we passed (is this getting excessively boring? I thought so. Sorry about that).
This is the ski slope on the other side of the mountain (the side facing away from Albuquerque).

Grandma Ti and me.
Me. It was cold at the top of the mountain.

Meanwhile, in Western Washington, it snowed around 18 inches and my family was snowed in for about 2 weeks! It was a crazy winter!