Had a good Memorial Day weekend. Spent some time with family today, and went out to eat with Lydia and Joe and saw Iron Man. Baby is good and fat. Here’s a video of Luke drooling in HD.

Here are some fun pictures of the boy. He’s really become a drooling machine lately. He’s eating 6 ounces at most feedings, but he still only likes to sleep 3-4 hours at night. In one of our baby books it says at 10 weeks they “might” start to sleep through the night. HA! We shall see silly book.

This is his “I’m super fat” pose. If I was a cannibal I think his meaty thighs would look tasty. Reminds me of a good turkey leg.

This is his “I should be in a commercial” pose. I mean look at that face, it’s perfectly round, and save for the almost bald part, he could hawk some diapers or tires right?

This is his “I tried crawling and failed miserably” pose. Technically daddy made him try crawling just so he could take a picture, so I accept all the blame on this try.

This is his “look at my super cute smile” pose in front of the very popular afghan backdrop.

And Andrew, I need your help getting the pictures centered, because the way I’m doing it now is a pain! And Angelo, what you using to get vimeo vids embeded?

We got back last night from our short trip up the coast. We spent our first two nights in San Luis Obispo at the San Luis Creek Lodge. It’s a fairly new place that feels fresh and up-to-date. In San Luis Obispo we spent time walking around the downtown area, went to the farmers market and had a turkey leg, and drove to Morro Bay. A recurring theme on our trip was the wildlife we kept seeing, and this guy below was hanging out in Morro Bay. He even jumped up near a dock to let us take some good pictures.

I love these "smokestacks" in Morro Bay because they always look like a painting. They don’t look real for some reason, like they’re computer generated and my eyes are playing tricks on me.

After San Luis Obispo we headed up the coast and stopped in Cayucos on our way to Cambria, where we stayed at Moonstone Landing. I had never been to Cambria, but it reminded me very much of Poipu Beach on Kauai where we went on our honeymoon (but much closer and cheaper). While it’s not a Hawaii replacement (you can only spend a day or two in Cambria until you’re bored), it’s a very similar setup where a small street is the only thing between your hotel and a beautiful beach.

Cambria is just south of Hearst Castle, and even though we didn’t go there, we enjoyed the view of the coast and a nice drive. Something totally unexpected we found was a place along the beach that was literally crawling with Elephant Seals. Apparently male Elephant Seals have been coming to this specific spot since the early 1990′s to molt (get rid of their gross old skin). In a stretch of about 200 yards I would say there were at least 100 seals (there were two other spots similar to this one below).

It was great because they were barking and play fighting the whole time. There was also a really small pup that was getting chased by some big fat dude. That was hilarious. Another interesting site in Cambria was something called Nit Wit Ridge. It’s like Hearst Castle, but not really. Some guy did lots of funny/odd stuff to his house, and here is the result. Much like the hundreds of antique shops in these small towns, I’m not sure if it is art or crap.

Overall it was a very nice and relaxing few days. On a side note, I thoroughly enjoyed the Nikon d50 on the trip. It was great being able to snap pictures at will and have a lot of control over the pictures I was taking. My brother got me a nifty case to put it in that makes it much easier to carry around.

We leave Wednesday morning at 5 am for a Boston/NY trip with my parents and Denise/Paul. I’ll be sure to take a lot of pictures, but The Blarg will be update free for a week and a half. In the meantime, head on over to the Milkinator’s new site for some blogger goodness.

Happy One Year Anniversary to us! We’re going to San Luis Obispo to relax and eat a turkey leg at the farmers market, and then to Cambria. Be back on Sunday. Go Dodgers!