California

For my Dad's 60th birthday the whole family took a trip to Southern California. There was no way I was going out to SoCal without visiting one of my favorite breweries, Stone Brewing Co. It was our first big stop.

Upon leaving Stone Brewery, we discovered this wonderful motor vehicle. You can find good people everywhere.

Megan's brother lives out in Long Beach. He drove down to hang out with us for a day.

California bore us some excellent snacks: the elusive white Gatorade and the never before seen (only heard about in a children's rap song) Takis

Megan seriously reconsidered law school for the life of a surf bum.

We found these babies on the beach. They weren't too excited when we picked them up. Just kidding. We tried to take this photogenic beach photo with our niece and nephew. However, this kind of photo is more our style.

We also went to the San Diego Zoo. Megan was a wonderful aunt and took a turn pushing the little ones. 

This picture is solely for Katie Frankhouser. 

Monkeying around comes easy to me. Megan had a more difficult time focusing.

Just an average day pondering the great circle of life.

I saw this giant camel statue while we were at the zoo. The natural response for anyone when they see such a object is climb onto it.

Megan's favorite bird is the Flamingo. She was pumped that San Diego had so many.

Megan's favorite animal of all time though is the capybara. I don't have the heart to tell her they are just snacks for rain forest carnivores.

We joined a rookery of seals!

We had a great time in San Diego. *Link not appropriate for children*

If you looked at some of these pictures and thought to yourself, "Wow! That's a good looking photo!" it was probably taken by my brother-in-law, Brad. We owe him a thanks for the good looking pictures on this post.

Portland

Our hotel was on the river walkway and there was a group of geese that hung out here in the morning.

Gosling daycare section.

There are a lot of courthouses in Portland, this is just one of many.

Map of Courthouses in Portland, Oregon

Pioneer Square

We toured the Pioneer Courthouse which was very cool. 

The Ninth Circuit hears cases at the Pioneer Courthouse.

This loft building has wind power on the roof.

This is the brand new federal building in Portland, the outside looks like designer crow bars on the windows.

Zoom in.

Zoom out.

Ghost bike.

More information here.

I managed to bring only one back...

(photo credit: http://thedailycorgi.blogspot.com/2011/08/slipper-cam.html )

What is going on with Megan

Hey readers,

We have been terrible with updates, so I thought I'd write a little whats going on with Megan post. If you read this blog for Gizmo or Luke you can stop reading now.

I finished my second year of law school, and quickly left for Colorado!

Josh and Mom at the Rockies Game. At this time Josh was growing his beard for a bet, he did not win that bet.

Rockies are apparently good at baseball this year, but not at the game we went to.

Sibling love.

Dad in the Bronco Barrel. Me in the child size Bronco Barrel. These are replica barrels, the actual Barrel is up on ebay, http://www.ebay.com/itm/300913611397.

Josh and I took Nana out to breakfast.

Mulligan's with some of the bike shop crew, I miss that place.

Olive and I, easily the biggest cat I've seen.

Ona and I, we watched Bridesmaids.

Family trip to the Colorado History Museum. We all really enjoyed the museum. My friend Becca works there and gave us tickets to see the Thomas Jefferson Bible, which was pretty cool. 

Ice cream with the family.

I am working this summer for a Professor at SLU writing articles and researching. The law school is moving this summer to downtown St. Louis. This is a picture of what the building will look like when it is completed.

I am also working this summer at the U.S. Attorney's Office in St. Louis. This is a picture of the building. Its been a pretty cool internship so far.

I've been giving blood every 60 or so days this year, trying to do a little good in the world.

That about sums it up for me, I'll just be working at traveling a little bit. Next week I'll be in Portland, Oregon for the Crime Victim Law Conference  at Lewis & Clark Law School. I'm hoping to pack my bags full of these...

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