A Few Honeymoon Pictures!

Here are some honeymoon pictures that we took when we went to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. We stayed at a very nice resort called Casa del Mar. The resort was in between the two main cities ( San Jose del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas) so there weren't any Spring Breakers at our place. This first picture is of me in front of the beach which was right in front of our room. The waves would sometimes get really big and would wake me up in the middle of the night. Despite my smile, I was really scared because the waves were big and the currents were terribly strong.


Jesse and I went ATV riding in the Desert Park National Reserve. It was a two hour tour through a dirt road with lots of hills, bumps and a dry river bed, where the let us drive really fast. On our tour we saw some wild cows, lots of cactus and a desert oasis. Jesse and I had separate ATV's but the tour guide wanted us to take a picture together. Jesse's says that I actually got some air with my ATV but I couldn't tell. (Edit: At one point the back end of her ATV went up nearly two feet off the ground and it moved probably three feet to the right. I thought my wife of four days was going to die.)

I got really comfortable after a little while so I started to go somewhat fast but then I almost fell in a giant hole. I slowed down a little bit after that. It was really hot and my arms got really tanned from the ATV riding. Towards the end of the tour I really started liking the ATV's. I want one now.



This is back at the same place where there's pictures of myself. I tried taking a picture of Jesse running away from a giant wave but when Jesse went up to the waves they all died down. But I still like this picture a lot. Jesse got really sunburned and so did I for the first time in my life. We never actually went swimming at the beach right in front of our room because the rip tides were too strong. Even at the swimmable beaches it was really hard to swim. We went to this one beach where there we security protecting the druglords' houses. I guess I felt somewhat better. Even there, at the 'safe' beach, the current was so strong that we couldn't walk in thigh deep water when the waves were receding, we had to wait for one to come push us back in.

Jesse and I took a boat taxi here, we had walked three miles the wrong way around the marina trying to get to the beach. The smile you see in our faces is a smile of relief.

All the Mexicans didn't think I was Hispanic. They all thought I was Filipino. They were amazed that I spoke Spanish and asked where I had learned. Whatever at least they didn't think I was a prostitute...that's another story from some other time that I was in Ensenada, Mexico. Hope you like the pictures.

Palo Alto

Melissa and I both had physicals last week. I have high bad cholesterol and virtually no good cholesterol, but my overall cholesterol is still low. Hamburgers and pizza are now off the menu, which is unfortunate since I was considering Mountain Mike's for lunch. Mountain Mike's doesn't have very good pizza, but for six bucks it's a pizza and salad buffet, dangerous for a man who can eat almost unlimited amounts of pizza. But I digress... we were at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation getting out blood taken and I was sitting there with the little tube sticking out of my arm and the lady who's doing the work suddenly looks suspiciously at me and asks Melissa how old she is. Melissa tells her that she's twenty three. The lady looks a little relieved and says to me 'Good. I saw the rings but thought that she was fifteen. I thought, "Shame on that man, marrying a fifteen year old." But you're old enough.'

That lady was so wrong, Melissa doesn't look like she's fifteen. She looks like she's sixteen.

My New Goldfishes

These are my new fish. They are all goldfish but different varieties. The first picture is of a Black Moor and a Fantail Goldfish. The black one is called Max. Jesse picked this one because it reminds him of his dark heart and besides it was fiesty in the store. The orange one is called Patrick. I picked him because he is the same type as my first goldfish, I named him Patrick in memory of my other Fantail.




The second picture is of a Red Cap Oranda. His/her name is Star. I don't know what sex each of my fishes are, but I think this one is a girl. She is also name after one of my deceased fishes. The Oranda's grow a brain on their heads. Some day her brain will grow.







This is our alpha goldfish. He is at least four times as big as everyone else in the tank. He is really fat, so we named him "Gordo," Spanish for fat. Gordo tries to eat all the food before the littles ones can get to it.

I Have A Pet

But it is not a dog. I have four goldfish. I will post pictures tomorrow.

Snag 34

So our table cloths fell through. Now we need 46 table cloths by Saturday.

Time Change and Other Stuff

If you hadn't noticed, we change our clocks today. To bad we lost an hour of sleep.

My arm hurts. I (Melissa) got a tetanus shot last Monday and my arm still hurts. At least I can move my arm now and my toe doesn't hurt too much. I couldn't move my arm for about three days after I got my shot.

We're excited! We're getting married in about 6 days, and then a day later we will be on a nice beach resort in Cabo San Lucas, getting a tan, leaving this raining weather.

My friend Kate, got married yesterday. I wish I could have gone, but it was all the way in New York City. I like New York City, except for the driving.

It's my sister-in-law birthday on my wedding day. I have to get her a nice present because it's her birthday and she is doing all my floral decorations. I also can't wait to see my family friends that I haven't seen in a long time.