Saturday, July 31, 2010

California State Fiar 2010 {Dinosaurs}

One of the things James and I did at the State Fair was the Dinosaur experience.

It was a little ehhh, but I took some shots of the Dinosaurs with the neat lighting. They even made sounds and moved when we walked by helped by senors letting the models known when someone was in front of them.



Above is a little valasorapter (Hope I spelled that good enough), but I didn't know the "hands" were like wings. Like I told James I was basing it off the movies "Jurassic park."

This one was still alive and moving...

What to come.....
* Exhibits
* Motocross
* Animals

Friday, July 30, 2010

California State Fiar 2010

James and I went to the State Fair the other day and here are just some of the general shots from the day.

I plan on doing different blogs for some of the things we did while we were at the fair. Think the different blogs for the Twilight convention back in Feb. and March.

This is a real steal beam from the North tower of the twin towers from the September 11 disaster.
According to the Cal Expo website 125,000 pounds of the wreckage was donated from the City of New York. During the 2002 State Fair more than one million people were able to see the beam.

These are a replica of the Carillon Bell Tower.

Many different bush cut-outs were around that fair. James got a shot of the bear with the purple heart, which is the logo for the State Fair.

Just one of the rooms, which was covered in these blue banners.

WHAT'S TO COME:
More blogs from the State Fair
* Animals
* Dinosours
* Exhibits
* Motorcross

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Fairytale Town with Jewels

After the Sacramento Zoo I took Jewels to Fairytale Town which is just across the street from the zoo. It has most of the well-known from the story books we love as a kid.

Here are the shots from the day:

Wizard of Oz
I was able to multiply her four times to fit in each hole.

I don't know about this face, but this was the little house at the end of the crooked mile, which she loved and had fun with other little girls in the little house. She also made me pancakes in the little house.

Behind Jewels is the J from the alphabet garden, where the children can learn vegetables with the letters.

Playing on a turtle outside of the alphabet garden.

I don't remember the name of the farmer, but there was farmers barn and animals. Here is the bull from the farm.


Sitting in Little John's seat in Sherwood Forest.

Riding a horse attached to Cinderella's coach.

Sliding down Alice's rabbit hole. She kept running back up the hill to go down the hole about four times.
She loved all the slides -- did each one about four to five times each.

Atop of Cinderella's coach.

And inside Cinderella's coach.

Here's one of the slides she loved going on. We went to it first and again later on in the day. It's the old women who lived in a shoe.

King Arthur's round table.
Walking the crooked mile. I went with her once, but she did the second time with some kids since I had the stroller -- it was a little hard to do it with the stroller.

Some flowers within the park.


Monday, July 26, 2010

Sacramento Zoo

I took my niece to the Sacramento Zoo today (since I've never been) and we had a blast.

I have some pictures of her and some of the animals we saw during the day.

The lemurs -- These guys were mainly sleeping, but this little guy was playing around on the ground and when I started taking some shots he looked right at me when he heard the shutter.

Didn't think I was gonna get anything good from the giraffe, but then this guy came over to us and picked some greens from the ground and ate right in front of us.

Here is a mama Sumatran tiger with her newborn baby Jingga, who was born on March 18. The guests of the zoo picked the cubs name with more than half of the 43,000 votes.

Right outside the Red Panda exhibit (which was empty) stood a huge koi pond with koi fish.

Here are the three newcomers to the zoo, which is the first in its 83 years. The red river hog piglets. Two females and one male were born on July 16. The three were playful while Jewels and I watched on.

Again the giraffe looking right at us with its tongue out.

Jewels playing in a construction truck.

One of the frogs in the reptile habitat. It's called a Colorado river toad.

The three siblings again.

Jewels has been wanting to see a hippo since we went to the San Francisco Zoo last month and there wasn't any in the Sacramento Zoo either. She got to make a hippo masks though with the "red panda."

The koi again.

The zebra "taking a shower."

The snow leopard is sure enjoying that box. Must be tasty.

The hyena "stocking it's pray." It had just come out from the back and went up these blocks and preceded to fall asleep.

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Evening of Elegance at the Vizcaya Pavilion

Two bridal shows in one week.

This was had a great incentives. The first 150 brides to register and attend received free Tungsten wedding bands, hand-rolled cigar, chocolate, and much more.

Here are some shots from the day.

This cake was made by Sweet Sensations Custom Cakes.

This would be a neat idea for a grooms cake. River City Cake Co. put a plastic bottle inside so booze can be used if the groom wanted.

Page saw this set-up and liked the fact her colors were used (chocolate and sage) and was thinking about setting up a candy bar for her weddings. The set-up was designed by Capital Confections.

This entire table could have been made for my wedding with the purple coloring. The table was designed by A Dazzling Day...by Darcie.

One of the photographers at the show who does weddings and boudoir had this tree which I've heard up again called a "Wish Tree." It's decorated with mini photos of the wedding pair and on the back side.....

The Secret to marriage is.....
For the quests to answer in hope to help the bride and broom in the years ahead of them.

Enchanted Bridal Shoppe had models changing into the gowns they offer and look at this one with the cape.
One of the first flowers tables we came to had these crystals in the middle of the roses.