Whenever I was asked the happiest event happening to me in 2007, I would say with hesitation, "Being employed as an Avian Apprentice by Ocean Park."

I reported my first day's duty on Dec 1 bright and early. As I remember the weather that day was wonderful and encouraging, the kind of sunny day that warmed the heart and freshened the mind of everyone in the sun. Before passing through the entrance gate of the adminstrative building, I looked up and proffered a heartful greeting to the slope on the hill with a landscape artificalized as a seahorse, the remarkable, impressive logo of Ocean Park used for many years. As I had said, I would be right back. And I did eventually.