Brant's New Ping Pong Table

This picture is a couple of weeks old. We were back in Kansas for a Kstate game. Brant got his new ping pong table just in time for Mike to come break it in and run the table!

A Random Post About a Bird

So, I'm laying in bed this morning and I hear some commotion coming from the living room. I just assumed the cats were chasing each other. I heard a bird chirp and thought what if they have a bird in the house? We leave our balcony doors open all the time, for the breeze and so the cats can go in and out on the balcony. A few minutes later, I get up and come out and see some feathers on the floor. Our cats do like feathers and have toys that have feathers. I then look behind the door in the spare room and see a bird laying there. I assumed it was dead, but Disco decided he wanted to play with it some more and started patting at it.

All the sudden, the bird is flopping, and Disco picks it up in his mouth and takes it into the kitchen. I try to tell him to take it outside, but for some reason, he didn't listen to me. Mike tells me through IM (because he was at work) to sweep it up and take it outside. I bend down and the bird is still alive, but I can't tell if it's hurt. I slowly started to sweep it into the dust pan and he got up and flew over to the window and was dangling on the cord to the blinds. Disco at this point is definitely interested in playing again! I'm trying to keep the cats away and get this bird outside. I grab the broom and get the bird to get on the end of the broom. By the way this bird is very small, about the size of my palm (and I have small hands). He gets on the end of the broom and I take him out on the balcony and try to put him on a ledge. He ends up flying off the broom and back inside! I think he's above the kitchen cabinets, but they are too high for me to see above. So, I decide to let him rest and come out on his own.

I'd say about an hour goes by and I look up and see the bird sitting at the edge of the cabinet. I grab the broom and slowly try to get him to fly towards the balcony door. He ended up flying into that window again, but I was able to finally get him outside. I immediately closed the door so he wouldn't come back in again. He flew over to one of our plants outside and sat there a minute. Finally, he chirped and flew away. I hope he said Thank You!

That was one lucky bird. To have come into a house with 3 cats and survive!! Hopefully he'll make a full recovery and not ever come back again.

Labor Day Weekend in Cabo San Lucas

We stayed at the Hilton. Our room was really nice and had a spectacular view of the ocean and pool. We ended up spending quite a bit of time at the hotel. Most of the beaches in Cabo are not swimable due to the rough surf. We lounged at our pool a lot, it was really hot. Mike ended up getting a little sick the first day also, so we didn’t feel comfortable leaving the hotel until he was a little better. Our hotel was about a 25 minute drive into Cabo San Lucas, which was the only bad thing. We wished we would have rented a car.

Sunday, we were finally able to leave the hotel and go venture into Cabo. Our morning started with a dive. We dove out at 2 different places near The Arch; they were called Cortez’s Finger and Pelican Rock. The water was warmer than we are used to in San Diego. We saw lots and lots of fish, eel, starfish, and manta rays on the surface jumping out of the water!









We went on a dinner cruise Sunday evening. We actually hadn't seen The Arch yet, so I'm really glad we went on the cruise. The Arch is the end of the Baja peninsula where the Pacific Ocean meets the Sea of Cortez. The cruise lasted about 2 and a half hours and took you down around The Arch and up the Pacific side a ways before coming back to the harbor. We met another couple from Texas, Adrian and Mary, and spent the whole time with them.

After the cruise, we went with Adrian and Mary to the Giggling Marlin and Cabo Wabo. These are 2 very popular places for tourists to visit. At the Giggling Marlin, there is a lot of crowd entertainment. Every so often, they come around with shot trays and stick a sombrero on your head and pour 2 shots down your throat. Aye Carumba!















I also felt my first earthquake in Cabo! We were in our room watching TV and the armour and everything in the room started shaking. We went out into the hall and no one seemed to have noticed. We asked 2 ladies that walked by if they felt the earthquake and they thought we were kidding. We almost thought maybe the whole thing was the result of something else until we heard later that La Paz had a 6.4 earthquake. La Paz is about an hour north of Cabo.

I'm glad we made it back home before the hurricane hit!

More pictures of Cabo here!