At Sea Ranch

With Sharon just realizing that she was pregnant with Jack, we spent the weekend between our birthdays at Sea Ranch.

Christmas Card 1997

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1997 Sharks versus Coyotes

For our first anniversary, Sharon gave me tickets to a Sharks NHL game. The traditional gift for the first anniversary is paper. We saw the Coyotes beat the Sharks by the score of 3 to 2.

Grand Cayman

On our first anniversary
on Grand Cayman

Nooters in Albuquerque

With the Nooters in the states for a family reunion in Santa Fe, I spent a short weekend with them in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Sunday afternoon before I flew home, Rob dragged me on the Sandia Peak tramway. Billed as world's longest aerial tramway, we went to the top and had lunch.

Half Dome

Sharon, Jeana Hultquist, Sue Olsen and Mary Maloney

Morgan September 1997

Drew with Sharon's guitar

At the Larkin's in 1997

At the Larkin's!

1997 Lake Almanor - Day 6

The Roman Colosseum

Wedding

Sharon and I were married Sunday, October 13, 1996 at the Monte Verde Inn outside of Greenwood.

Re-bachelor Party - Day 2

Re-bachelor Party - Day 1

The Davis Mafia (Tomasin, Hunter, Connor, Geselbracht, Bachman and Snipes) plus Larkin headed to San Diego and Mexico for a re-bachelor party. Sunday afternoon, we saw the Padres beat the Dodgers by the score of 3 to 2.

1996 Kings versus SuperSonics

http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/199604300SAC.html

New Year's Eve 1995

On the first New Year's Eve that Sharon and I spent together, we had dinner at Fulton's Prime Rib in Old Sacramento and then saw a late showing of Leaving Las Vegas.

Christmas Ornament 1995

1995 Sea Ranch

Sharon and I spent a short weekend at The Sea Ranch in early June of 1995. The house was very far north near the golf course. Although I have tried, I have never been able to figure out where it was.

Moscow Day 14

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MONDAY APRIL 24, 1995 -- a very uneventful trip back.

the flight was delayed about an hour leaving frankfurt, but since i had more than two hours between flights in dallas i was not too worried. it is a long flight--over ten hours--from frankfurt to dallas.

and guess what movie they were showing.... that's right maverick! at this point, i can now say the words along with the actors. they did show speed after maverick which is one that i have never really got a chance to sit all the way through.

the only bad part of the flight was that there were alot of kids who were very restless and fighting amongst themselves. my favoritie was the mom, the two boys (5 and 7?) who repeatedly tried to kill each other and the daughter (9) who was sick and barfing about every 20 minutes. dad was in first class and he never once came back to check on them during the entire 10 hour flight. guess what nationality they were? that's right italian...

i changed planes in dallas. so having left frankfurt at 12:00 p.m. i was home in sacramento at 8:00 p.m. at time; 17 hours traveling with a 9 hour time change and was dog tired....

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Moscow Day 13

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SUNDAY APRIL 23, 1995 - - the hotel i was staying in included an expansive bunch so i was a little slow and lazy in the morning sitting, reading my book and drinking coffee.

after breakfast I went down and bought a ticket for the river cruise. the boats run primarily from mainz north to bonn. if you went to cover the whole distance on a fairly conventional boat it takes about thirteen hours. given the boat schedule and my less than three days in germany, i elected to take a faster boat.

while I was waiting for the boat to take off, i went through the gutenberg museum which includes one of only 47 of the existing gutenburg bibles.

the boat tour took off in the early afternoon and covered the river from mainz to kobenz. this is about 45% of what might be considered the whole tour. nevertheless, the section from bingen to koblenz is said to contain some of the more impressive set of castles. it was a pretty impressive tour from which you can see the ruins on the hillsides of twelve to fifteen castles plus lots of small towns and vineyards. i can see the value of taking a slower boat and getting a chance to soak up the scenery, but the faster boat represented a good choice for the amount of time that i had.

i spent the late afternoon wandering around kobenz. the city was originally founded in 9 AD by the romans and has a major fortess on the hillside that dates from about the 1100's.

i then caught a late train from kobenz to the frankfurt airport and stayed at the sheraton at the airport. a cope-out maybe, but at this point i was pretty beat. i figured that i probably walked almost 10 miles a day on friday, saturday and sunday. the idea of rolling out of bed and on to the plane in the morning sounded attractive...

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Rhine River

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