I’m back from the trip to Taos for Laura’s aunt’s 70th birthday. A great time was had by all, with balloons and hiking and large numbers of decorative pots. However, you’re going to have to wait until the weekend before I can post any pictures – I took almost 200, and figuring out which ones to throw away is going to take a while…

Okay, I can’t wait. Here are some movies:

[Liftoff](http://elbizri.com/movies/liftoff.MPG)
[Balloon](http://elbizri.com/movies/balloonA.MPG)
[Grey Poupon](http://elbizri.com/movies/poupon.MPG)

[Landing](http://elbizri.com/movies/landing.MPG)
[Landing, the conclusion](http://elbizri.com/movies/landing2.MPG) (I need to join them together)

[Hiking](http://elbizri.com/movies/smile.MPG)

We rented bikes yesterday and toured the island.

The day ended with an extremely large dinner which sent us straight to sleep, precluding the posting of any photos yesterday. However, I’ve posted them now, along with this:

Bike Ride

And these two more pictures, that deserve their own posting, since they are animated. (And the damn gallery software won’t add them. Blah).

Laura Dances Eating Ice cream

More vacation. We go to the beach. We find dinner. We pet the dogs.

Wohoo! Vacation.

It feels strange, but I am sure I can get used to it. Here is the first day of vacation photos. Laura and I traveled Nantucket, to visit her family. Along the way we picked up her brother David, and visted her mother and relatives at her parents summer home.