Makin' Some Noise

On the off chance that anybody but me is seeing this, you may notice that I've decided to drop the idea of keeping this blog in sequential order. I figure it's better to get something posted than nothing, which is what is currently happening. I think I'll just add a date to each entry that corresponds with when the thing really happened, and then maybe someday I can straighten it all out. Maybe.

So, last night I went to see Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. It was really, really good. Those guys have some serious chops. This was, I think, the second stop on their current tour.

Unfortunately, I was way out to the left of the stage, so I couldn't really see most of the guys. Also, they wouldn't let in good cameras, so the photos aren't all that great. But on the theory that something is better than nothing, here are some photos...

You may notice that he's using a different guitar in nearly every photo. He had at least a dozen guitars, and swapped to a different one for every song, I think.

Tiny Pretty Girl

Not so tiny anymore, actually.

Lisa's senior portraits... is she cute or what???

Photos (c) 2013 by Cazier Photography. All rights reserved.

Merry-Go-Round

After the BYU-BSU game, we went to the house we were staying at, which was near the point of the mountain.

It was a fairly new, pretty nice house.

This is the main living room upstairs, where many of the kids spent much time playing video games.

The kitchen.

The theater room in the basement, where the teenagers hung out mostly, annoying the younger kids by not letting them in. They also slept here.

The walk-in closet in the master bedroom had an air mattress on the floor. That's where I crashed.

Being near the point of the mountain, we had a good view of the hang gliders and parasailers in the morning.

Saturday morning went to Lagoon. I hadn't been since I was little, going with Grandpa Dean. I don't know if it's changed a lot or if I just don't remember anything about it. Probably both.

Daniel mostly roamed around with the other kids his age -- a flock of free-range teenagers.

They have some pretty large roller coasters, but having ridden some world class stuff in Japan, Daniel wasn't all that impressed.

I mostly wandered around taking pictures.

They also had some really big stuff, like the slingshot that shoots you hundreds of feet up...

And a gigantic swing that pulls you way up in the air and then lets you go.

Being right before Halloween, there were a lot of spook alley type attractions set up (which I avoided), and people in costume running around scaring people. They also had a Halloween-ish themed band playing.

We stayed until it was fairly late and cold. It was pretty at night, too.

 

Sunday morning we packed up, got ready for church, and headed out. We stopped in Willard and went to church there before pointing the caravan back to Boise.