The Daily Biff - 2007 07 30

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Mon, 30 Jul 2007

Bowling with Uncle Robert and Aunt Jessica
We spent the evening with Kristy's brother Robert and his wife Jessica (Uncle Robert and Aunt Jessica). Jessica works up by my folks, so we made Robert drive up to North Salt Lake to meet us at a bowling alley for some pizza and bowling. Here are a couple of pictures of Olivia with her aunt and uncle.

Any day that Eliana and Berkeley can bowl is a good day. Berkeley probably enjoys it more than Eliana. Eliana will lose interest after bowling 4 or 5 frames. But Berkeley was intense tonight... intent on getting a "strike" (Berkeley counts both strikes and spares as "strikes"). He managed to get one just before we had to leave and he was pretty elated about it. I didn't get a picture of his strike, but here are a few others (you can tell they got a bit of sun at the water park:

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Murray Park Water Slide
We spent much of the day at Murray Park Water Slide today to allow the kids one more day of water play before we return home (tomorrow). I'm not sure why, but there just isn't many water parks up in the State of Washington. So today was a real treat for the kids. Berkeley remembered the park from two years ago when we attended the same park on his third birthday.

Like two years ago, the kids spent most of the time at the park riding the open-air water slide. Here is a sequence of pictures of Berkeley riding by himself down the slide.

Berkeley at the top of the slide.

Berkeley at the bottom of the slide... going fast!

Berkeley submerged.

Berkeley's happy to be back above water.

This second sequence (shown below) is of Eliana. She would not go down by herself (Berkeley wouldn't either at 3 years old), so either Kristy or I would hold her.

Olivia went down the slide quite a few times too. But we didn't get any pictures of her on the slide. I did get this one picture (the only shot I took of Olivia the whole day... oops):

When the kids were not on the slide, Eliana was playing in the waterfalls and Berkeley was on the diving board. Here are a couple of action shots of Berkeley jumping off of the diving board:

Berkeley at the top of the slide.

Berkeley at the top of the slide.

And this sequence is particularly hilarious... I asked Berkeley to "dive" instead of jump. As can be seen, the results were not textbook.

Berkeley at the top of the slide.

Berkeley at the top of the slide.

Berkeley at the top of the slide.

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