Clear Creek Camping Trip...

Yes, we've been to Santa Cruz and then Janese and I spent a week in Hawaii, but I just took some pictures of our camping trip to Clear Creek and they were so easy to edit that I'm posting these first...I'll get to the other stuff later...

Click on each image for a much better view...

Worst Fight Scene in a Movie...

...goes to "The Next Karate Kid" (the one with Hilary Swank as a nine-year-old or something).



We borrowed this movie from our friends around the corner (and I'm grateful...) and Janese was getting tired of me mocking every other scene and laughing when I think I was supposed to be wringing my hands and wondering who was going to get chopped or "Craned" or "grasshoppered" or whatever. So we get to the end of the movie (spoiler warning: they all die) and there is the final, majestic fight scene extravaganza finale with Mr. Sgt. Kesuke Miyagi battling Colonel Dugan (I don't know this guy's name, but this was the worst acting of his career, hopefully). All of the other characters had fought each other and the girl had praying-mantis kicked the main bad-guy-kid, so Mr. Miyagi decided it was time to finish off the "other guys" (and probably the movie series) with one final battle.

They "fought". I felt like I was watching two old men play chess in Mile-Square Park. Except there would have been more action in the chess match. Now I wish the movie would have been about chess and not karate. Not quite the Bourne movies...