kayak fun

Well today I finally got the chance to take my Kayak out. I just went to a little lake that is really close by. It was nice to get out in paddle eventhough it didn't take long to get from one end of the lake to the other. After I was done kayaking I decided that I would go for a swim all I can say is BRRRRRRRR!! The lake gets it water from the snow run off in the mountians and well there is still snow in the mountians so it is still pretty cold.

Well tommorow is back to work so that is no fun...well actually it is fun but you know work is work.


I can't remeber if I told everyone or not but my sister got a job down in LA. As of june 17th laura will have her PHD in Physical therapy and will finally be done with school. She is going to be working in a Clinic in Palos Verdes (in LA area) starting in July.

Well we will see when the next fire call comes..............

Iguazu Falls

Here are some pictures of igauzu falls in Northern Argentina....let me just say that the pictures don't even do them justice. The falls are right on the argentina's border with Brazil and Paraguay. There are even trails/bridges that allow you to walk right over the top of the falls. We didn't get any pictures of those trails, becuase an afternoon rainstorm came in and soaked us... but we were happy about that since it was very humid and very warm there.

Enjoy

Enjoying my day off....

I love living in the park...since we are at a fairly high elevation here it is almost always at the perfect temp during the summer.... today for example it is in the high 60's here with hardly any humidity, while down in fresno it is probably almost a 100 degrees. so I must say that I am lucky to live up here.

Today I have been lazy just cleaning up my cabin, doing laundry, cleaning out my car and relaxing after my crazy day in fresno yesterday. I was thinking of taking my kayak to the nearby lake but I might save that for tommorrow. Maybe after I am done on the computer I will go hang out in a hammock for awhile......hmmm

Well I am finally able to add pictures to my blog. we are back at home and i am fina;y posting pictures from my time in AZ. the first picture is of the grand canyon......from the north rim.
Its not the best picture I have taken but that is the canyon





The next picture is of a bunch of the guys drinking beers on the veranda of the north rim.......they are looking at the view in the picture above.....there are chairs that are even closer to the edge of the rim but they were sitting in the back row





This is a view of the colorado river. we are standing on an old bridge looking at the new one. before these bridges were built you had to travel a huge distance to get across the river (because of the canyon) it was cool because near the bridge we saw a bunch of Calofornia Condors, which are an endangered species and are being reintroduced into the wile. they are huge birds and it was cool to see them


Look its me getting ready for our helicopter ride home from the Romero fire (the 1st fire we went to) they make us wear our chinstraps so we all look funny





This is from the La Barracha (not sure on spelling) fire. It is my friend jake cutting a piece of fire line. there were lots of cactus and other prickly plants on this fire along with the crazy bugs that I had talked about before.





The last one that I have for now is also from the La Barracha fire. the red that you see is a retardent drop that an air tanker just finished dropping. it is supposed to prevent the fire from spreading when the fire reaches it, but most of the time it doesn't work and just turns the hill red.

I am super excited because I also just got a CD with all the pictures that Cara took on our trip to South America. so eventually I will post pictures from that trip.....but not today since I have had enough of this internet cafe to last me for a long time. I am on a day off, but am getting paid so that makes me happy...but at the same time I have a ton of stuff to do and haven't done any of it yet and since my computer battery is about to give out will get going.

I am super excited that I get next weekend off for stephie's wedding so I can't wait to see lots of people there.

time to venture out into fresno.....not fun but oh well

Another fire under our belts

Well we just got back from another Airizona Fire. This one was down by sedona....if any of you know where that is. Anyway we got there thursday nigt found some grass to sleep on and got up bright and early on Friday morning to head out to the fire. The fire started the afternoon before and had burnt quite a bit of land alog with almost burning down lots of mutli million dollar homes but I don't think any of the homes burnt and we had the fire pretty much under control by that night. But there were these horrible little beetles that come out after fires that almost killed us. Normally they aren't that bad on fires but this fire was something else. I think that I lost my sanity numerous times because these stupid bugs were trying to attack me and cause me to go mentally insane. Thankfully we didn't have to go back out there today cuz it was bad enough with the 103 heat yestrday and today was even hotter.

we are back in the grand canyon today and are going to work tommorow on the fuels project and then we are heading home on tuesday morning. so i will finally get some days off on thursday and firday. One of the good points of my job is that we cant work more than 14 days straight( not including time that we travel) so really it will be like 18 days of working straight, but then on our days off one of them will be a paid day off.

well it is time for me to go see if I can find any hot guys to hang out with tonight (prob wont happen) really i am going to go and have one more beer and then hit the hay.