Hannah’s Senior Prom

Last night was the Vista Ridge Junior/Senior prom.  Hannah and a number of her bestest buddies decided to forgoe the fancy restaurants and instead invade our house where it was heard “the food is better and you don’t have to leave a tip!”.  And of course, I took the opportunity to get off a few photos.  It worked out fine as the weather had been nasty all day so we had to move everything indoors anyway.

When Hannah got back from getting her hair done, she walked in and saw all the lights and said “My family is such a nerd family.”  Maybe true, but I think the photos were worth the trouble.  The kids all seemed to have a great time except when they got home after the prom and somebody had left the garage door open and the cat got outside.  Seems Hannah was crawling around in our neighbors’ yards with flash lights looking for him.  She found him and got all muddy in the process.  As usual - I slept through it.

As always, if you want to see all the photos I took, simply click the picture above.

Congratulations Lance & Grant

This last weekend (May 2nd and 3rd), I had the priviledge of instructing Lance Clinton and Grant Heatherly in their Advanced open water class.  Congratulations to both for completing the course and quite frankly doing one of the best jobs I’ve seen in a while with navigating underwater and overcoming obstacles that divers sometime face - and they managed to have fun doing it.

We began the weekend Saturday at the Scubaland Lake store for a brief classroom tune up, and then headed to Aquarena Springs in San Marcos.  It was very busy when we arrived with a number of classes still going.  In fact, during one of our dives, there were 25 or so students in the water.  The highlight of our dives down there was a night dive.  By the time we got back in the water about 8:20, the visibility was much better.  Both Lance and Grant got to see a turtle and crawdad.  Pretty cool.  On Sunday we met out early afternoon and went out w/Robert on Lake Travis Scuba.  We did our deep dive at the Oasis wall and our wreck dive at Wreck Alley.  The deep dive was….well, what you come to expect deep at Lake Travis - dark, cold, and not alot to see.  I was disappointed that the visibility wasn’t a little better having dove that wall the weekend earlier.  The wrecks were a different story.  These guys were navigation animals and did so many things right.  The buddied very well together communicating and navigating all throughout.  When separated when viz got poor a few times, they did exactly as expected and looked and found each other.  At the end, we all navigated back to the boat under poor viz conditions just like you’re supposed to.

So….congratulations guys!  It was alot of fun!  BTW, click the picture to see all the photos from the class.  You can dowload them by right clicking when you’re viewing from the gallery.  Change the size of the photo when you’re viewing to “original” and you can download the full-size jpeg.