HE’S SO TALL—Corie and Melanie Rosen of Westlake Village makfriends with a giraffe at the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in Glen RoseTexas. FUN AT SEA—John and Marie Thaler of Thousand Oaks enjoy the amenities aboard the Princess Cruise through the Panama Canal. BIG ROCKS ON BIG ISLAND—Thousand Oaks resident Bruce Rudman displays his Thousand Oaks Acorn at a crater filled with volcanic rock on the Big Island, Hawaii. THEY LEFT THEIR HEARTS—Sarah Firouz celebrates her 16th birthday with her grandmother, Sharon Lopatka, with a week’s stay in San Francisco that included walking the Golden Gate Bridge. Both ladies are from Thousand Oaks. ‘THE CAISSONS GO ROLLING ALONG’—The Platz family of Thousand Oaks learn about the military at the Army Education Center at Fort Eustis, Virginia. MOBY DICK MEETS HIS MATCH—Fisherwomen Gloria Leckman and Ruth Diehl of Westlake Village show off the salmon they caught near Campbell River, Vancouver Island, British Columbia. AS HIGH AS AN ELEPHANT’S EYE— Luke and Kori Groenveld of Thousand Oaks feel sure they won’t get lost among the corn stalks in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. ‘TOP OF THE WORLD, MA’—Lucy and Don Frokjer of Thousand Oaks stop here because they can’t go any farther. They’re above the Arctic Circle at Welcoming House aBarrow, Alaska, the most northern city in the United States.