Tyler's first trip to the zoo

Alan is home and i decided we should do something for Tyler. Since we're trying to teach him(Tyler) lots of animals and animal sounds, i thought zoo would be a good thing to try.

He seemed to really like the zoo and was jabbering like crazy while pointing to all the animals. For the animals that he knew(or thinks he knows), he made the appropriate sounds. Quite cute.. :)


First stop, measure up against a penguin...


A Malaysian bullock cart???


Aren't we sooo brave??


Errr... mom.. there is a very big bird in my way...

Tyler waving bye-bye to the pretty peacock..

Managed to grab one family photo!

Our little tinkster hanging off the rails..

Tyler and Daddy playing "Hat"

All in all, it was a nice little trip. We'll probably be back... maybe with more animal sounds... :)

Three Boulder Peaks in under 5 hours !!

There are three major peaks in Boulder Mountain Parks, Green Mountain, Bear Peak and South Boulder Peak. Due to their close proximity (8 miles start to finish) it is possible to do them all in 1 day, so Steffen and Alan got up early to hike three peaks on Sunday Morning.

6:20am: starting at Gregory Canyon Trailhead, we went up Ranger Trail then E.M. Greenman to top out on Green Mountain 8,144 feet in 1 hour 20 minutes.

A few minutes break, then down Green bear, you can see the mountains ahead of you.

Onto Bear Peak west ridge (the hardest part of the day) and scramble onto Bear Peak 8,461 feet at 9am

A few minutes rest to admire the view before crossing the saddle and heading up to South Boulder Peak 8,549 feet at 9:25. After spending 10 minutes to admire the view


Last time we visited it was cold and covered in snow we headed back down the saddle and then shadow canyon onto homestead trail to finish at 10:50am. Three peaks in 4 and a half hours is quite a workout. On the way home we discussed how much quicker we could of done it. Running it could be a lot quicker, but a good target for hiking would probably be 4 hours..

Hiking Golden Castle in Golden

I've been wanting to try out this apparently "soooo awesome" middle eastern restaurant in Golden(Ali Baba Grill). So, i tried to convince the group to do this really wimpy hike in the area. Thru my veto authority and Alan's smooth negotiation, the group was convinced!

After slathering on sunscreen, the group took off on the hike, while i went to hide and read my book at the local Starbucks.


Tyler all ready for the hike..


Tyler and Daddy..


The Group..

If Tyler's hat looks familiar, it's because it's mine.. :)

Anyways, they finished the hike on time and we met up at the restaurant. It was a nicely decorated restaurant with intricate designs. Food, however did not meet up to the hype, i'm afraid, though some of the meat i tasted on the Lebanese plate was really quite tender.

The group got bigger at the restaurant!

Bolder Boulder 2009 - Tyler completes his second BB

A small family tradition is that Alan always try to run the Bolder Boulder. When Tyler was born we thought it would be good if Tyler carried on the family tradition. At some stage Tyler will be faster than his daddy, we just dont know when.

Each year Alan gets up early, does his first 10k, then heads back to the startline and takes Tyler round for a second 10k.

Luckily for the last two years Steffen has helped out with taking Tyler for some of the distance, hopefully soon he will be able to walk/run the whole way !!

This year we persuaded a few more people to do the BB. Sabrina, Damith, Darshan and Dave also made it not only to the start line but also the finish line. Tyler, Steffen and myself managed to catch up with Sabrina and Darshan around mile 3, and we then completed the 10k together. Tyler's time has improved by over 10 minutes since last year, hopefully he will be under 90 minutes next year.

Afterwards we went to South Boulder Cafe for brunch, the food as usual was very good..

MIA

I know I know, we've been gone for a while. Well, it was too see if anybody noticed we were gone. :)

Unfortunately, the only person who requested to see more blogs was my Dad!!!

But i will again try to catch up. I missed the whole month of April!!!