Buddha or Grande Pajaro??

Best of friends; Michael and his wife Kathleen have ventured off to live in Hong Kong for a year!
What a unique experience! You can read about their adventures on his blog here.

Michael has a side step post referring to our mutual good friend as a the "Buddha of Tahoe". Frankly, I have always called him "Grande Pajaro". Got me thinking ...does anyone call him by his real name??

Grande Pajaro: Highly intelligent, a unique charm, supreme confidence... all coupled with good looks.

Here he is putting it all his qualities to good use with Pat Nixon.
Yea baby!

Where are we since the last post?
Madison just got her cast off.

The girls are into their 3rd week with Junior guards

We went to Pop's for the fourth of July.
Brought the dogs with us this time!
The whole family got together (cept Jeff) on Saturday for an afternoon BBQ and some volleyball.
Got out of the house as well: River rafted on the Truckee river and went over to Incline to watch the fireworks. Dad and I also managed to get in a hike on the top of Mt. Rose.