We've been back in California for a few days now and are still trying to work through the backlog of pictures from all of our travels and visitors this summer. This is a follow-up post to the swimsuit modeling post from last week. We'll start with an out-take from Graydon's swimsuit photo shoot. The red swimsuit was the last wardrobe change and we had the audacity to sit him down in the smaller creek which was ~ 18 deg C. This was well below his accustomed bath temperature and produced the rather unhappy reaction seen below.
Julius is one of Graydon's cousins from Germany and clearly has the hang of this whole modeling thing....
Benjamin is Julius's father and spent most of the week "beavering" as his wife Katharina put it. By blocking off the dam he was able to control the water level in the small creek which came in incredibly handy for some of our rock moving endeavors. (Pictures still to come in a future post.)
This is actually the picture that originally inspired the concept of the swimsuit modeling photo shoot. We were out skiing in Texas and Eva took this shot of Gramps posing on the bow of the ski boat.
A little while later Gramps was dragging himself back onto the boat after a ski run. This usually produces some pretty unflattering pictures because you are exhausted and dripping wet. However, this time Gramps responded particularly well to the call of "Smile!".
To finish things off, we have a shot of Gramps pulling Eva on the wakeboard while doing his best "Dirty Harry" impression. Clearly, he is a man on a mission.
Julius is one of Graydon's cousins from Germany and clearly has the hang of this whole modeling thing....
Benjamin is Julius's father and spent most of the week "beavering" as his wife Katharina put it. By blocking off the dam he was able to control the water level in the small creek which came in incredibly handy for some of our rock moving endeavors. (Pictures still to come in a future post.)
This is actually the picture that originally inspired the concept of the swimsuit modeling photo shoot. We were out skiing in Texas and Eva took this shot of Gramps posing on the bow of the ski boat. 
A little while later Gramps was dragging himself back onto the boat after a ski run. This usually produces some pretty unflattering pictures because you are exhausted and dripping wet. However, this time Gramps responded particularly well to the call of "Smile!".
To finish things off, we have a shot of Gramps pulling Eva on the wakeboard while doing his best "Dirty Harry" impression. Clearly, he is a man on a mission.
Graydon getting his first experience with snow! He was rather uncertain about it, but we suspect that by the time he sees snow again (Christmas?) he'll think it's pretty fun to play in.
Luckily, Graydon has outgrown his male pattern baldness since this picture was taken. He has also long since outgrown the frog suit! As an aside, the frog suit was left in Montreal due to a blow-out on the way to the airport and we recovered it this past week as well.
Graydon catching a nap in Granddad's very soft and fuzzy arms.
Quintessentially Canadian photo op. with 2 Royal Canadian Mounted Police and a fine steed with Graydon's cousins at Parliament Hill in front of Canada's Parliament Buildings.
We had to wait for a while for our tour to start, but at least there were hot dogs, sodas, and benches in the shade to be had!
The cousins are holding a conference... wonder what trouble they're planning on getting into??
This was further down the trail out on one of the actual points at Pt. Lobos and you can actually see Graydon peeking out from the backpack.
On another day, we took them windsurfing at Shoreline lake. 
We also spent a day poking around closer to San Francisco. We went to the Sutro Baths, Marin headlands, Pt. Bonita lighthouse, and Muir Woods (below). Notice that Graydon likes sleeping in the backpack. 
We wish Nana all the best in recovering from her knee surgery.
