Escape From Alcatraz

This past weekend we drove down to San Fran to meet up with Brian, Petra and Molly! Petra was doing the Escape from Alcatraz triathlon!! We had a fabulous time hanging out with them and Petra's family. Molly loved wrestling with Alex, flying the kite and playing with the pups! They were good sports too! They let her do whatever she wanted! Petra did an awesome job in the triathlon!! Most of my pictures from the weekend were of Molly.... shes just too darn cute!

We went climbing!

Headed up to Moonstone beach to do some climbing the other day! Now that we've got a few more guys up here that like climbing Alex is hoping to get up there a lot this summer!

Mountain biking catastrophe

There is a difficult mountain biking trail that Alex and a few other guys have found. The top of the trail is about a half hour outside of town up at the top of the mountain (obviously) Last Tuesday I drove them up to the top- about 2 miles into the ride Matt took a tumble and got a pretty nasty gash on his leg. It was about 6 inches long right next to his knee and it went down to the bone. Thankfully there was 4 of them- Nick stayed with Matt while Alex and Andrew headed down the rest of the trail to get cell service to call 911. Andrew met me at the bottom and we headed back up to the top to meet the ambulance. We all hiked down to him and they bandaged it up. Not knowing if he tore any ligaments they wouldn't let him walk out- thankfully there was a clearing not far up the hill big enough for the helo to hoist him out. It would have been a VERY long tough hike out if they had to carry the litter with him in it! It was dark and hard enough doing it not carrying anything! These were all taken with my phone... so they're a little blurry...
He is doing fine now.... they did a little bit of microscopic surgery to clean it out and check for any internal damage and then stitched it up! Now he just has to deal with getting slack for having to be rescued by his fellow CG guys!

Ned sleeping

While Alex gone Ned gets to sleep in the bed with me! He LOVES it! I woke up one morning rolled over and was face to face one Mr. Ned! He managed to maneuver himself up onto the pillow and was snoozing away!
His eyes were rolling back in his head when he was sleeping..... Freaky!

Alex's deployment

If you can call it that..... Alex spent a week on the USCGC Bertholf getting his own as well as the crew's helicopter-boat landing qualifications!

Sunset and Kite flying

We went out to the beach one evening when Joyce was here to catch the sunset and give Ned some kite time! He is very happy that the doc gave him the all clear for any and all exercise!

Ave of the Giants with Joyce

On Memorial Day we drove down to Ave of the Giants to find some sun and warn weather! As usual there were some fabulous Redwood Trees and Alex got to take the top off the jeep!

Kinetic Race

Alex's mom came to visit for a few days over Memorial Day weekend! Every year Humboldt has a Kinetic Sculpture Race- it's a 3 day bicycle sculpture race. We got a big canoe from morale and went out on the bay to see the water portion of the race on Sunday!

Later that afternoon we had a BBQ for my Birthday with a bunch of friends! Of course I didn't get around to taking any pictures- So you'll just have to believe me!

Paddling the Bay

Swimming is a fantastic rehab exercise for Ned's recovery! So we have been trying to take the boats out as much as possible!
Ned's knee is slowly healing. He has added some more muscle but is not back to using it fully all the time. We're hoping we won't need another trip out to the ortho for him!