This was the morning of the first fire in San Diego County (The Witch creek fire). We were totally safe the first day. As you can see the fires were to the south of us. The second day a new fire threatened Valley Center so we were told to evacuate. We packed up the RV and lived in the RV for the next 3 days. These fires ruined Halloween for VC.

A Little pregame preparation. Diana and I are at Dick's Last resort before the game. I do believe that is Fat Tire Ale we are enjoying. The bog one!!

This was a awesome night at Petco park. This is the weekend before Tony Gwynn was inducted into the Hall of Fame. We love our Padres. Jason, Diana and Ryan seem to be ready for the game. Too bad the season ended on a bad note. We lost to the sinking Rockies in a playoff. I hate those guys.

Diana is sporting the Antonio Gates baby blue jersey.

Charger tailgate this year was against the Texans. This is always fun to go to Qualcom Stadium with the family and friends to tailgate. Here's a pic of Ryan and Ryan. We had great seats for the game.

Yes I coach Soccer too. As you can see Ryan is hanging on my every word. Soccer is fun. Both Jason and Ryan love the game. I really enjoy watching them play.

Our team his year started out pretty rough. The second half of the season we only lost one game. Ryan had a great year. The last 7 games of the years Ryan scoed in all of them. Earning him a spot of the U-14 All Star team. There he played a great Fullback, a position that he normally doesn't play. We shout down every team he faced. No goals were scored from his side.

This picture was taken after a victory.

Diana thought she'd give it a go. She kicks butt at these games.

Ryan on his 13th Birthday. It's a big day at Dave and busters. Ryan had a couple of his friends go with him. We had a lot of fun that day.

We stayed at the Hawaiian Hilton. This is the view from the room. Life is good...

Here we are on the deck of the Mighty Mo Pearl Harbor Hawaii. Less than 200 yards from here is where the Arizon ly's. These two monument are a wonder reminder of greatness, of the greatest generation. We visited there in Sep. 2007. It was very windy that day.

This is a monument to the firefighters of San Francisco.

This is a great view. I bet the prisoners didn't think so.

Yeap it's the San Francisco treat. We always love to go to San Francisco. Diana has always wanted to go to Alcatraz and we had opprotunity so we did it. Here Diana and Ryan are enjoying the Audio tour.

The view doesn't get much better. These are Diana's feet and a view of the Sea of Cortez.

Here is Diana, Sonja and Diana's Mom relaxing after a long day at the beach.

The desert is a beautiful place to see wonderful scenery. This is the Sonorian Desert near the Arizona / Mexico border. We saw lots of interesting shapes and colors. The catus is very different from the Mohave Desert. That is the desert Diana and I are more familiar.

Diana's sister came to Mexico with us. Too bad she got a little sick after we got there. I think Diana's mom took the photo. She too went with us. She had family in the area and she visited with them.

This kids had a blast hanging out in the RV on the way down to Puerto Penasco Mexico. We went in a large group of 4 Rv's in total. This is Johnny and Ryan. We all had a pretty good time in Mexico.