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I'm that guy now.

Rachel and I went to Joey Buona's last Saturday to do a tasting for the party we'll be hosting in a few weeks. We tried appetizers, salads, and deserts. We stuffed ourselves silly and made our choices. I was pleasantly suprised by the quality of food. Their staff is top notch. We had two bags of left overs we happily took home an munched on the next day.

Immediately after the tasting we headed out to Homestead Hollow park in Germantown to attend the wedding of a Timm and Heather Kannenberg. It had been a looong time since I had seen Timm and other people in attendance. Most of the people I caught up with live within just a few miles and I can't wait to make the rounds. Their children have absolutely no idea who I am! I tell them 'I remember when you were in your mom's stomach', so yeah I'm that guy now.

podcast test 2

This is the same podcast john and I made a few months ago. Typepad has just announced podcasting support so i dont have to figure out how to do it. If you have listened to it before, or do not care for drum and bass, please ignore. If you want to download and give it a whirl even better, you can also look to the right and drag the 'subscribe to podcast' link into the latest version of iTunes and every time one is posted, you'll know.

Download 30_minute_rollout_test_run.mp3 (test run)

..on a stick.

Thats pretty much the theme at state fairs around the country. Everything you can eat, you can eat on a stick. I was particularly pleased to see and consume, five different sausages all on one stick at this years Wisconsin State Fair. My very first job at the age of 15 was working for State Fair Saltwater Taffy. I had a number of friends that manned booths around the grounds and I worked at the main stand where the fresh taffy was cranked out all day. If the wrapping machine did'nt wrap the taffy completely, you got to eat it! Mmmm warm fresh taffy, can't be beat.

So this year was nephew Niel's first state fair. He was a bit scared at first but really got into the animals, especially the baby birds.

Check out the day in the State Fair 2005 photo album.

Thanks to Bill for dropping us off and saving us the parking hassle :)

Scratching the surface.

I have put some of the professional photos of our wedding in the Dallas_Wedding album. They were huge files, think 6 - 7 mb a piece, so they needed to be resized before realistically posting them.

Also here is the album of our wedding at the courthouse if you have not stumbled across it already. We took an excursion along the lakefront to take some pics after the ceremony.

More coming soon!

Wedding Wrap Up

So Sunday (July 24th) was the big day. I dropped off my car at the B&B Rachel and I were staying for the next two days since we were taking a limo from the Dallas Women's Forum to the B&B. Pete, Chris, and I took some time to relax in the pool and the hot tub before getting into the tuxes. We got ready and headed over the site. I greeted folks as they arrived and waited for the ceremony to start. Once it was go time the guys and I took our places.

Uncle Mikw greeted everyone with performace of The Rose in memory of Rachel's mother. The ceremony started and Rachel was an absolutely beautiful bride. Rev. Daniel Kantor gave a great ceremony that touched some humorous points about us. The parents had a birds eye view of the action and my mother had to keep the fathers from getting too emotional. After the ceremony things were a blur of picture taking and hugs. We got some food and headed upstairs to sit and listen to some toasts. Rachel's father, Christine, Peter, my mother, and I spoke (with Bill serving as the MC). Everyone had something very touching to say. It was great having such a collection of friends and family. We next cut the cake and took some more pictures outside. Before we know realized it, it was time to go. We ran out the site with everyone blowing bubbles. When we reached out limo, my uncles Mark and Mike jumped out at us! People wished up off, especially the kids.

We cruised around a really fancy area of Dallas and made our way to the B&B. After a yummy breakfast the next day we had some lunch with the Milwaukee folks before they got on their planes. Rachel and I returned to Uptown Dallas and did some exploring on the Trolley and grabbed some lunch at Hook, Line, and Sinker a nifty seafood restaurant that is really basic but has quality food. We walked back to the B&B and stopped to get a drink at Quarters a French Quarter themed bar.

Tuesday was time to head to Shreveport where we hung with family. Especially nice was the time spent in the nieghborhood pool with Rajul and her boys Mahil and Druuv. They are good swimmers! After some yummt indian food and a round of goodbyes we headed to Samstown Casino where dad had a room (comped) waiting for us. We watched a little Law and Order SVU and turned in early in preparation of our 5am wake up call.

The trip home was status quo and the cats were really happy to see us 16 hours later.

We got our pics back from the photographer, Jim Miller (our pics are on the home page!), and I'll be posting them this week.

Thanks to everyone who came and for the generous presents. Everyone means a whole lot to us.

Lots of good stuff in the pipeline.

More on the wedding coming. Getting back into the swing of things at home has been a bit draining, especially with the heat! Have wedding photos, stories, wakeboarding photos, and the ever elusive Peter Rampson complete set of photos from the last two summers! I have set up a flickr account where I will also be posting pics.

Speaking of water activities. Shame on this guy. He is successfull enough to BUILD HIS OWN LAKE, but has to rig the competitions to win? I'd consider retracting this statement if he lets me wakeboard on his lake.

Here is a vintage wakeboarding photo from last summer, taken by me with Peter's Sony camera. Oh and speaking of Sony's we got a new gadget here at home, a Sony Handycam :)