• Ironman World Championship 2011

    I had been looking forward to watching the Ironman World Championships since we moved here.  I thought it’d be so neat to see some of the top triathletes in the entire world come here to train and compete.  I wanted to see their fitness levels, their determination and their athleticism.…

  • Let the (Ironman) Games Begin

    Ironman has been heating up here the last couple of weeks.  Athletes arrived early to start training and there has been a buzz in the air. There have been signs all over town and lots of amazing looking athletes biking and running the roads. The first main event was last…

  • Early October Update

    Another couple of weeks gone, another update for you all… Chuck was working crazy, crazy hours a couple of weeks back trying to wrap up his consulting gig so we didn’t really have much family fun time. I went swimming with our landlady that Tuesday and that was the most…

  • We on Sea

    On Friday, Chuck took a break from work and we went for our first kayak voyage. We rented a 2 person kayak and headed out. There was a pod of spinner dolphins playing at the edge of the bay but by the time we got out there, they were headed…