Camera Phone

I got my birthday present three days early, a spiffy Motorola Razr phone! Thanks Honey! It has a camera, so I feel very 2006 (2005?). Dusty thought it deserved a closer look. Should be very handy for unexpected blog-worthy events.

Tiger Woods Wins British Open

Tiger got back on track last week at Hoy Lake, winning The Open Championship (a.k.a the British Open). He got pretty choked up after the victory, this being the first since his father passed away. He's shown above with his wife, Elin. The media got lots of pictures of tiger overwhelmed by emotion, being comforted by his caddy, and so forth. I couldn't bring myself to post the real tear-jerkers. Too much tender man hugging, I suppose. I didn't want to throw Tiger's soft side out there like that.

On a related note, Nike has posted a couple of super-slow-motion videos of Tiger driving a golf ball. He is wearing Nike shoes, Nike pants, a Nike shirt, a Nike hat, swinging a Nike driver, and hitting a Nike ball. Nevertheless, the movies are pretty cool. There's even music. Here's the side view and the front view. Makes me wish I had an iPod that can play movies.

Wimbledon Pictures

Here are some pictures from Wimbledon! Were were there for most of three days (July 4th-6th), with centre court tickets on the 5th and grounds passes on the other days.

The men's quarter finals were held on centre court the day we had tickets. Here are Marcos Bagdadis and Lleyton Hewitt getting the coin toss straightened out. The ball boy and ball girl are, as always, maintaining excellent posture.

We got to see some good matches on the other days, too. Having grounds passes doesn't allow you to get into centre court or court number one, but in a way it's better, because the other courts are much smaller and you always get great seats.

We saw Venus Williams and Bob Bryant play mixed doubles. Here they are at the change over.

But none is so photogenic as my lovely wife. Here she is demonstrating one of the many uses of her Wimbledon towel (Arthur Dent would be proud) and enjoying some berries.

Well-Centered English Doornob

London Eye

Behold the London Eye!

The London Eye is the world's largest Ferris wheel. It is 443 feet tall and is located across the River Thames from Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament. I get the impression that some folks think building a giant Ferris wheel in the middle of historic London was not such a good idea. They are wrong, it is cool.

Case in point, check the pods as seen from aboard the Eye:

And the happy tourists...

London Sightseeing

We're back from our glorious vacation in London! I didn't do any posting whist we were there because the internet wasn't free. (London is apparently the fifth most expensive city in the world.)

The first two days were spent doing full-on sightseeing stuff. We went to see the houses of parliment, Big Ben, etc. It was really crowded so we bailed pretty quickly. The only items of interest that we missed were the guys in the red suits who don't move (guarding the Queen's jewels?). It's nice to see that stuff but then again you just look at it for a bit and then move along.

The next move was to board a boat and go down the river Thames. That was pretty nice. Here are Rae and I floating along with the London Bridge in the background. Note the bonnet.

A lot of history took place along the Thames: Roman invasions, Viking invasions, and now lots of expensive real estate. Here's a shot of the Globe Theatre, where Shakespeare plays were originally performed.

Matrimony and Muscle Cars

Meg and Alex's wedding coincided with the Rocky Mountain Mustang Roundup. We weren't sure if it would be horses or cars, but it turned out to be cars. Everyone there was obsessed with polishing their bumpers. I suppose there are worse things to be obsessed with.

That's Steamboat ski resort in the background, sweet, no?