I have still not started studying for the GMAT and I take it in a week and half….AHHHHH! I bought some books on-line that should arrive sometime today. This afternoon, I have another shot in the series I need for the rabies vaccination. Then my dad and I are going flying in the Mooney to take a look at the Santa Monica mountains, and then I head down to San Diego for an Aviation Safety Counselor meeting with the FAA.

I wanted to go flying yesterday, and drove down the airport with my dad only to find that the nose tire on the airplane was totally flat. The plane flew just a week ago so I don’t know what happened. We pumped it up and it held air just fine. While I was loading some stuff into the baggage compartment, however, my dad herd a pop and all the air rushed out of the tire so that it was completely flat in a second or two. I think it might be a valve stem or something. Bill’s air service is changing it this morning before I fly down to San Diego.

I got a new lens for my camera and have been busy taking a bunch of pictures. I got a Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM. Here is a review of the lens. The lens is much heaver and longer than the EF-S 18-55mm kit lens that came with my camera, but there is no comparison. The quality of the new L-series lens is far superior. It focuses faster, has a longer range, the pictures it takes are MUCH better, the lens has a constant f/4 aperture throughout the entire zoom range, and best of all, the lens is image stabilized which allows hand holding at slower shutter speeds. All I have to say is that I love this lens .

I started off taking some pictures of the girls doing a yoga lesson:

Then I took a few of my little brother Michael outside in his vibrating chair:

This picture reminds me a lot of one of me when I was a little guy:

Krista had let her dog batman out into the yard and I suddenly noticed that he was no longer lurking around…..apparently he got out to the front and was playing in traffic……good dog . I snapped this picture of Krista bringing him back home:

We then suited up for a quick stroll with Mikey in the stroller. I grabbed this picture of him in the house before we left:

And then I had to get one of Mikey and mom on the corner of our street:

As I get closer and closer to China, I am getting more and more excited. I can almost taste it now

Next time…..Same bat time, same bat channel, etc.