New Years a Here

First things first. A few posts ago, we put up a few pictures of our backyard without any explanation. We hired a contractor to go in and put some sod in and make a few other improvements.

Before...
After the contractor got their hands on it...but before the sod:

And then finally, we put a lot of effort into putting it all together:


....so we expect some backyard bbq's this spring. Jack loves it.

We went out to Golden Gate Park last weekend and it went over pretty well.

The kid in green corderoy:

Zoo trip 2008!

Yes, this was the San Francisco Zoo that was in the news a few weeks ago. These sign are brand new.
This was the lion's area, but apparently, the tiger's place is pretty much the same. Maybe the picture can't do it justice, but that's like 20 or 30 feet from the ledge to the fence.

Our little tiger is safe in his tub.
For the longest time, he hated, hated, hated baths.
Yesterday, they became cool again.
Yay.