Duluth 2010

Every year Gretchen and her Parents go to Duluth right around my Birthday. They spend a weekend up there and they are usually kind enough to let me tag along. Here are a few pics from this years trip.

We stayed at "The Inn on Lake Superior". It's the one with the fires and the s'more station.

Ate at one of the usual places... Pizza Luce... SO AWESOME!

A candy shop that sells all the flavors of Jelly Belly Jellybeans INDIVIDUALLY! I got a bag with very cherry, pomegranate, raspberry, and strawberry jelly.... so awesome.

Ate at a little place called BrewHouse. Very awesome and AMAZING beer. Their turkey ruben (shaved turkey, coleslaw, swiss cheese and cranberries) was THE BEST! Awesome sweet potato fries as well.

Flying monkey... I shot it at gretchen a few dozen times...

This creepy muppet looking guy was fun to play with... I dubbed him the "Creepy King" and had a blast messing with gretchen and her dad for about 10 minutes... If you haven't ever played with a muppet, I strongly suggest you do. This one even had the stick attached to his hand so you could move it around.

Look at all the trout... and he wasn't even catching very many of them.

Best sign ever... Swim, but you gunna get MESSED UP! :)

"Autobots, Roll Out"

Birthday

WELL... Another year has come and gone. So I'm 25 now. So many people sent amazing cards and gifts. I thank all of you for everything, you really didn't have to do that but I want you to know that it's MUCH APPRECIATED.

Here are a couple images of things that I got.

LOTS OF CARDS... many with much too generous amounts of money.

Cookies, Pumpkin Bread, and Pecan Pie! Yes the Cookies are half gone, NO the bread isn't half gone, Half had to be put into the fridge for later consumption.

Got a pretty awesome Text Message.

Star Wars Themed Bed Sheets...

And Cookie Cutters.

Very AWESOME Birthday. Gifts, Phone Calls, Cards... Thank You to EVERYONE who made my Birthday SO AWESOME!

More Pics

Here's a couple more pictures from random things earlier this month.

My Parents had their 32nd Wedding Anniversary, so Gretchen and I went out to dinner with them. They insisted.

We went to the Melting Pot. We all had a great time. Especially Joe who filled Gretchen's Glass with water, when she was done, so he could play music... or at least make noise.

Here's another picture from the Chelsey Ride.

Terry took this one from the back of the Trike that her and Kerri rode.

Fun times.

Chelsey Ride

This past Saturday we rode out to Atwater for a benefit ride in Chelsey's name. My dad rented a newer BMW bike and I borrowed my buddies Harley Davidson Softail. It was about 90 miles out there, a 90 mile ride broken up between the starting spot and 3 bars, and then a 90 mile ride back. It was COLD going out and COLD coming home, but the actual ride wasn't bad at all.

We had about 56 motorcycles and about twice as many people. Some people followed in cars and we even had a couple in a semi truck.

This was taken at our first stop.

Just about everyone on my mom's side of the family was there for the ride.

Byron has a new Suzuki, Mitch has a new Harley, my cousin, Kyle, borrowed a bike, my dad rented a bike, and I borrowed a bike.

Even my aunt Kerri rented a trike and Terri rode with her.

Everyone wore a little green for the ride. Gretchen and I wore green bandanas to show our support. Balloons were given out to be released at the start of the ride as well.

Here's another shot of the last bar we stopped at.

With that many bikes, we had quite the line taking up the road. It was really professional and planned perfectly. The "Iron Warriors" group helped block roads and lead the event.

We all had a great time and with a little effort, this will be a yearly get together. Now I just have to work on getting my own cruiser.

State Fair Picture

Incase anyone is wondering what happened to this picture... I have it. And now you can...

If you want the calendar on it to, send me an email and I'll shoot it over.

If you need Carrots, Onions, or Cucumbers... call me.

I have WAY TOO MANY Carrots, Onions, and Cucumbers...

And one of them is WAY TOO BIG!

The onions are awesome... and the carrots are a little gnarly looking but taste AMAZING!

Please call me if you need any of the three... free hugs with every purchase :)

Avatar EXTENDED

In other news... I saw Avatar again... This time it was the extended edition. Was as good as always but the little added things really advanced the story. There was a whole hunting scene added along with extended sex scene and little add ins here and there. But the most memorable, aside from the sex scene and hunting scene, was the Tsu'tey death scene.

Pretty awesome, even it was only an extra 8 minutes added on to 2 hours and 42 minutes.

Still good stuff.