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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Dad's Visit to LA II

Last picture added (on you left). Grandpa and Pep playing video games at Jen/Pep home. We tried half a dozen games and Pep won EVERY ONE! Baseball, tennis, pool, you name it. What ever happen to the old days of Pacman, Donkey Kong or even Zork?





Previously unpublished pictures of my visit to Southern California. First on your right is a shot of me (middle) with two (taller) GTE friends. Darien (on the left) can't get any more grey. Mauri (right) and I are doing our best to catch up!

Next is a picture Kyle (middle grandchild) thought was really neat. It is of a vehicle that looked a lot like one of his toys (Transformer, or Transgressor or something).



Pictures I take indoors rarely come out (me or camera . . .who knows?). After taking about a dozen of Kyle's swim lesson, this is about the best. Kyle is child in red holding instructor's hands.




Travel Town


My favorite Daughter-in-law and I went to Griffith Park with the three children:






Boarding the Train, Kyle the Engineer, Pep and Kyle inspect






For Melissa (aka Pep, aka Liss) EVERY ride is a thrill ride!






Not really taken at Travel Town, but a Kutie of Katie!

posted by DADO at 6:00 AM

10 Comments:

  • Neato! Is there actually a moving "ride" at travel town? Also...I don't see the swim class picture.

    By Blogger Lilwrig, At August 19, 2008 2:42 PM  

  • Yes, there is a little train that circles the park.

    See, I told you my indoor pictures don't turn out! Actually, I published prematurely and need to go back and add the picture. Plus one of Pep and I playing video games.

    By Blogger DADO, At August 19, 2008 3:02 PM  

  • NeatO-KeenO. Nice assortment, Bro. Awaiting Kyle at Swim Class.

    By Blogger FAN, At August 19, 2008 6:04 PM  

  • Is Traveltown new or did I just miss it when I lived there? Did you go to the Observatory? That was my favourite bit.

    Why Pep?

    By Blogger sylvia, At August 22, 2008 1:57 PM  

  • Pep, short for Pepper is Melissa's new nickname given by Dado because of her love of spicy foods.

    Travel Town has been around for a long time http://www.lacity.org/RAP/grifmet/tt/information.htm, you must have missed it when you lived here. I haven't been there in years, but it's pretty much a graveyard of old trains. From the pictures it doesn't look like it's changed much since I was there.

    By Blogger Jeff, At August 22, 2008 2:34 PM  

  • I haven't hit the Griffith Observatory yet since Katie's only 2 1/2. But Kyle and Melissa might like it (I'm sure Melissa has been). I'll probably wait until Katey is at least 5.

    It was hard to find things this summer that worked for an age range of 2 1/2 all the way to 12!

    By Blogger tamicatt, At August 22, 2008 5:13 PM  

  • swim class picture added by Jeffy (got tired of waiting for Dado - from the description, I think that's the photo he meant to add)

    By Blogger Jeff, At August 22, 2008 9:25 PM  

  • Good taste,that child!

    I'm sure I must have been taken to Travel Town and I just forgot about it. It looks interesting but I guess maybe when I was little I might not have thought so. :)

    tamicatt: I bet - that's a tough age range to deal with!

    14 is easy - point him at a computer and he's happy. ;)

    By Blogger sylvia, At August 23, 2008 4:02 AM  

  • Thanks for the addition of the picture, Jeff. That was the one.

    I also wanted to include a shot of Pep beating GrandPa (aka PopPop) in EVERY video game I played with her. You will have to tell me (off line) how to add a pic after the blog has been posted.

    By Blogger DADO, At August 23, 2008 6:18 AM  

  • I added the picture of me and Pep playing video game. It wasn't so hard after all! (Jeff was probably out sailing El Sea Del Jefe.) I put picture at the top of the blog so you wouldn't have to sort through everything to find it.

    By Blogger DADO, At August 24, 2008 5:59 AM  

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