February 10th, 2005
Ok, well, I have had several folks yapping at how I've slacked off and haven't kept up with the blog in the last week. You are all right, but, we haven't done anything worthy of the blog. However, we did move into our new place, and it was totally gross! We have a major ant problem b/c the last tenants were less then tidy in the kitchen. They also had some sort of shrine in our cabinet in our bedroom and must have burned incense in there, making yellow stains all over the inside of the cabinet and burn marks, as well they smeared red paint (likely the stuff used on their foreheads) on everything. So, we spent two entire days cleaning, scrubbing, and buying the small things to make our place work on a basic level. Ant traps were at the top of the list! And now, a few days into it, and all three of us practicing clean kitchen habits, I think we are winning! What little food that we do have though, we are keeping mostly in the fridge as it is likely the only ant free zone!

Once we were a bit more settled into our condo, we took a short bike ride to our local park to check it out. It's only a block away, and is the largest Community Park on the Island! From end to end it runs several city blocks, and has jogging trails, work out pods, a bicycle obstacle course, ponds, playground equipment, McDonalds and McCafe (more free wireless connections and $.25 ice cream cones), a dog park, the whole park runs along the ocean, has a bird sanctuary, BBQ pits, field space, free concerts, etc...it's a really neat park for young and old alike! Here are some pix of what we found. Francis A, Andy & Aaron A, Eron V, Sam and Nathan, you guys would love this park! By our standards it was totally cool, but I don't think you would find playground equipment like this in the states anymore with everyone being so 'sue happy'. Folks here take responsibility for themselves, mostly b/c it's impossible to sue the gov't, but ohhh what fun!


The map of the obstacle course for bikes.


Of course we had to try it out!


We couldn't resist!


Giant Rope Pyramid! From the top you can see much of the park play equipment and out to the ocean!


Some of the equipment

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