Last Day in Florida

Well, it’s our last vacation day in Boynton Beach, Florida, and as you can assume from the attached photo, my family and I had a blast (don’t be fooled by the body board, there are no real waves, but enough to fool around in with the kids.). Plane tomorrow, back to school for my oldest on Monday, and back to work for me on the 10th. My wife and two youngest will be staying an extra week.

And of course, back to more tech-oriented blogging for me. :)

Update: 2007-01-12: Link to Google Map where the photo was taken.

Lion Country Safari

We’re playing snowbirds for the holidays this year, and one of our first activities was to bring the kids to the Lion Country Safari, (map) in West Palm Beach, Florida.

I’m usually not much of a zoo-goer. I even once got my entire class kicked out of one for sneaking behind my teacher’s back and opening cages to release the animals when I was about 8, in France. On the other hand, those open air, free-roaming and conservation oriented ones are more to my liking. I’d still much rather see those animals free, in their natural habitats, but given so many of those species are now endangered, I have to take the lesser of two evils approach.

You can find a few photos below or go to the equivalent Flickr set or slideshow.

It was quite nice, but if you are in the area during the summer, I have to say that the Parc Safari, in Hemmingford, Quebec, is much larger and a lot more fun and interactive.

Warning: cheesy pet video ahead. ;)

Anybody who knows me (and them) knows that I had to do the following. Consider it saving a short snapshot for posterity, since they’re 10 (Surf, dog) and 8 (Bandit, cat).

Or like Linus Torvalds once said:

Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it.

Whoever said cats and dogs hated each other didn’t know these two. Surf’s been taking care of Bandit since the day he was born. And yes, the snoring is coming from Surf. :)