Had a great time with the guys up north. Did miss the ones who were not able to make it, I had a drink for ya ;) Friday, the golf course was great, but my golf game was not. Everyone was basically swinging the clubs for the first time this season. With about a half a small bucket of balls on the range as practice we were off. If was definitely hot and sticky but it beats a day at the office. After a couple of rounds of hot tub, steam room, hot tub, pool I was completely relaxed. So much so I pretty much was asleep the rest of the evening and night. Saturday was wakeboarding and some entertainment. Sunday was clean up and travel home. Pete took many a cool photo that will be posted soon. Some of the highlights include some very intimidating spiders and his 11ft fire. I did pull a bonehead move that will stick with me for a while. The Klugs have a older Bronco at the cabin that does not get run too often. Billy resurrected it and we headed to town to get some petrol for the boat. His only words to me were "do not shut the truck off because it will not start again." So I get to the gas station and jump out the truck. Little did I know I turned the truck off out of habit. 4 vehicles tried to jump us, finally Bill and John came to the rescue. Luckily it was kind of my weekend so nobody got on my case. That does not mean I did not escape abuse. I will not mention the profanities that wound up written all over my body, but I am sure the guys will show you the pics when there are some get togethers. To reinforce my decision to marry Rachel, she scrubbed the foul language off of me and razzed me a bit. It turns out her bachelorette party was one helluva time cos she called me at 3:15am just rolling in the house(my weekend out of town and her bachellorette party coincided)! I was also presented with a Nalgene bottle full of Johnny Walker Black label that I was to finish before the weekend was out. But alas I am no alchoholic and with the help of Kacz and some social rounds about half of it was disposed of. And as we are not jocks in a fraternity I was not forced to drink any if I did not want to. I'd just like to thank the guys again for showing me a good time.
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Obey Family Guy
So I missed the lastest Family Guy episode cos I was out, and I was too dumb to record it with the DVR so I had to <whistpers> get it via itbay orrentay. During the episode Peter referenced the fact that he helped restore the Sistine Chapel and they cut to him during the screenshot below. He told the priests he made some improvements and added Obey's Andre the Giant has a Posse (2nd pic is one I took, guess where?). Thanks to Peter Rampson I knew the behind the scenes connection immediately. Its a tribute really. Both Family Guy's creator Seth McFarland and Obey's Sheppard Fairey attended RISD, as did 'Sneaky' Pete Ramspon.
Walkers in Back!!!
So I have to say I pulled a rather bonehead move the other day. In a ploy to get Rachel out of the house I suggested we go to the lakefront festival of the arts. I bought some advanced tickets and we headed out in the morning. Get down there early, like a week too early. For some reason I didn't look at the tickets or the website all that closely and jumped the gun by a week. While we were down there we had brunch and the Milwaukee dish bistro then walked over to the Cathedral Square farmers market. We each picked up some cool prints and headed over to TJ Max in Grand Avenue for some bargain clothes hunting. I feigned illness and we went home where Rachel's surprise party took place. Thanks to Christine for putting it together!
Saturday after a shrub busting session at Chris's building Kacz scooped me up and we did the Locust St Beer Run. The T-shirts had a better design that last year and we checked in early. We are going to try to get a couple of people to dress up and run, we were thinking lifeguards cos most of us still have gear. A tactical mistake on our part was to start in the middle of the pack. It took way to much energy to snake through people to get into a comfortable running pace. Kacz suffered from poor hydration from the day before and eased up his pace. I forged on. The first three beer stops were in pretty quick succession. I had to walk after the third one and burp a few times. I finished in about 13:15 for a 1.8 mi run with people holding me up in the beginning.
We enjoyed some BBQ pork sandwiches and bummed around. Billy joined and we went on food hunt with him. BBQ, funnel cake, corn...all the good stuff. I ran into my next door neighbors, you never know who you'll see out and about. Then came a great set by King Solomon, the festival crowd gave them a lot of love. They did not disappoint.
