R & A: Eating! Eating! Eating! Vol. 2

The computer gremlins strike again!  I'm trying to finish off this eating post thingie but keep encountering problems.  So, anyway - here is the next installment of our holiday eating pics :)

Paris Buffet.

Rain Forest Cafe.

Luxor Breakfast buffet.

Luxor breakfast buffet.

R & A: Las Vegas Vol.2

The Stratosphere...

Audri was the only one brave enough to go on those CRAZZZZZY!! thrill rides on top of the Stratosphere!  We're so glad she made it out alive :)!!!

A romantic ride on a gondola in Venice (well, at least the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas!)

Brunch buffet at Paris - our favorite :)

Chilly evening after a day of snow.

Las Vegas apparently hasn't seen snow in 30 or 40 years! and we happen to be there when it does!

The night-time lights.

R & A: Las Vegas

Managed to get these pics up but then the computer was not co-operating again:(  anyhow - we travelled from the Grand Canyon to Vegas and brought the snow with us!  so here are a few pics for now and I will try to put up some more later.

On top of the Stratosphere.

Ruben with his favorite actress - Julia Roberts.

It's snowing!  Look at our hotel - the Luxor.

Audri is a fan of American Idol's Simon Cowell :)

R & A : Grand Canyon

Once again, I apologize for the formatting - pics are a bit out of order!  Our first road trip with Ruben and Audri was to the Grand Canyon!  They arrived on Sabbath and early Monday morning (4am) we left for Arizona.  We were at the Grand Canyon around the same time with mom in 2006 but we had a totally different experience that became the theme of the holiday - SNOW!

This was actually our last day in the Grand Canyon and it had snowed over night so everything was covered in a thick blanket of white :)

Audri trying to make a snow-angel :) we don't get to do this kind of thing in sunny South Africa!

That's our aunty and uncle for ya!

Look at how deep that snow was!

First time we've experienced this!  Our poor car is not used to sleeping in the icy cold :(

Takes quite a bit of work before you can get going in the morning!

Totally different Grand Canyon experience - visibility on the first day wasn't even as good as this.

Winter wonderland...

It's snowing!

The only time the skies were clear - for the first 10 minutes that we were in the Grand Canyon...as soon as we drove through the gates of the park, the snow started and it didn't let up!

Loma Linda University

So one of my classmates has been documenting our final year of grad school in photos so I decided to "steal" some of her pictures and show you a little bit of my life at Loma Linda University :)

That's Dr. Shaughnessy - our graduate advisor.

Our resident "head-less" skeleton!

Our class LOVES potlucks :)

Off to class...

Chatting as usual!

We usually try to make it out to lunch together if we have class on a Friday.

There's me...yapping again!  Steffi (girl in pink next to me) commented that she obviously has excellent listening skills - as you can tell by her body language :)

Studying for comps!  We wrote our big exams about 3 weeks ago - all day Thursday and Friday.

Going a little nuts!

Girls hitching a ride across campus with me!

Walking to our religion class (Care of the Dying and Bereaved)

Aural Rehab professor dresses up! - yes...we do serious work!

serious work like counting syllables for stuttering...

you see, hard at work and bent over our books in concentration :)

This is the sight that usually greets us when we get out of class at night.