Saturday, June 25, 2005

Winter at Camp

Snow is nice. It can also be quite annoying at times, but I still like it. During the winter, I got a chance to go out and take these pictures just after a fresh snowfall.

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Off my front porch.

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Carl clearing roads with the snow plow.

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Home sweet home.

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The bridge across the creek, and the Dining Hall beyond.

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The creek-side path to T-Hall and my house.

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T-Hall

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Off the deck of the Rec Building, overlooking the field.

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Off the deck of the Dining Hall.

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Behind the Dining Hall.

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Many of the buildings and cabins here (including my house) have metal roofs. As the snow collects and forms a solid layer on top, the heat from the room underneath mealts the bottom layer of the snow and makes it slide off. Sometimes the snow still holds together enough to create an overhanging snow-sheet off the edge of the roof. This cabin has an excellent example of that.

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The road to the lake.

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Suttle Lake

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Link Creek

Thursday, February 17, 2005

Disneyland

My "List of Things To Do Before I Leave Biola" included hitting Disneyland one more time while I still could. So Luke, Laurel, and I spent the day there on Nov 9th. For some reason I never got around to posting these, but here they are now:


Well, Luke was definitely happy to be there.
Oh wait, he looks like that most of the time... nevermind. :)


Yeah, this is our bragging pic.
The park was rather empty (and we like it that way)!


The whole park was decked out Christmas-style and looked really cool!


The Haunted House was transformed by Jack Skellington and his minions.


Laurel and I riding Segways HTs (yay!) They were really fun!


Luke having his turn on a Segway.
(I thought the lighting on this one was way cool.)


California Adventure -- this was the first time I'd ever been inside.


After a trip through the aforepictured rafting ride, we all came out a bit damp...


Did I mention the place was empty?


They had some cool woodsy walkways around a big camp-themed playground.


Luke and Laurel traversing the rope bridge.


Yeah, what you don't know is that we were 50 ft off the ground at this point... ahem... ;)


Laurel wisely suggested we visit the lobby of the Grand Californian Hotel...


...and the decor was really awesome.


The obligatory train station shot.


The newly repainted castle (and Luke gazing contemplatively into the moat).


On the hope that I might have been King Arthur in a former life...


Brittany (and her mom, who is taking the pic) joined us later in the day. And yes, we go to Biola! (At least, we all did then...)


Cool lights.


The castle looks really cool lit up at night.


Main Street


The only way SoCal sees "snow" -- clusters of tiny bubbles...
(Want snow? Come visit me.)


Awww, look at the engaged couple, aren't they cute!