Its Always Sunny in California
The last month has been pretty entertaining. Lots of happenings and last week I just got back from a week long trip out to California. Its hard to believe that the summer is almost over, and I've made it through my first six months of home ownership relativity uneventful (up until my range stopped working last week). Some highlights:
I made the second trip to the hospital in the last six years due to kidney stones. How fun. This time was a bit less traumatic, as I actually knew what was causing the extreme pain I was experiencing. Well six hours later and a nice morphine drip and most of the drama was over. Its amazing that these little things can cause your body to feel this much pain. The spec on the left is only a bit larger than a grain of sand. Back to drinking lots more water I guess.
My buddy Kevin had an absolutely amazing luau party with plenty of props ands everything. He really 
goes all out on these things and his Christmas party is also up there with the best of them. The guy even rented a real karaoke machine, and I was able to get my groove on with a classic rendition of Guns N Roses Knock Knock Knocking on Heavens Door. You should of been there, I was amazing!
I attended my first mud bog last month too, which was quite the experience. Kyle and I rode our motorbikes up to some land his uncle owns and once a month everybody in the area gets a bunch of 4x4's together and creates this huge pit of mud to run them through. It was pretty interesting, and 
I can only describe it as the most hillbilly type event I have ever been to in my life. Very entertaining though. They took a bit of a break and all the kids (along with a few adults), starting having a good ol time in in the mud. 
This stuff was waist deep in some places. Sunday of that same weekend I took another bike trip with some guys from work. We did the 2 hour ride over to Hell, MI which is quite an interesting place. Not really much of a town, 4 buildings or so, but there is a restaurant along with an ice cream shop. It is a serious motorcycle destination on the weekends.
Last week I went out to Los Angeles to visit my friend Meghan who was an intern for GM a few years ago. I had an absolute amazing time and the trip changed my entire viewpoint of LA. I had always taken the typical Midwestern viewpoint of the area as too noisy, too crowded, etc, but I really became a fan of the place after experiencing it though the eyes of a local. Also mid to upper 70's everyday with low humidity is really tough to beat! Plus she lived about six blocks off the beach! Some pictures:
Universal Studios Hollywood was pretty impressive, I enjoyed the sites more than the rides.
The War Of The Worlds movie set in which a jet plane crashes: they took a real plane and ripped it apart.
The wonderful town of Whoville from the move How The Grinch Stole Christmas. It was funny because this is directly behind the Bates Motel.
There was a volleyball tournament on the weekend that was quite unusual. Thousands and thousands of people and all the teams in it had themes. Even thought the whole purpose was to come up with the most outrageous theme you could, the volleyball players themselves were very talented.
This team had authentic Masters caddie uniforms. They even used golf props when they played.
Attended my first Dodgers game. Thank you very much to Meghan's parents for the seats. I even came back with a Dodgers cap.
The setting for the stadium was absolutely beautiful. Another interesting fact was that Doc Brown (character only) from the movie Back To The Future threw out the first pitch. Only in LA.
Also managed to stop off in Anaheim on my way down to San Diego to see the Red Sox play the Angels. I even scored a free ticket in line out of the kindness of some stranger.
See what happens when a rental car agency screws up a reservation. You end up with a Jeep Wrangler for the week. This was a pretty sweet vehicle for cruising the beach, but you absolutely can't feel safe with anything locked up in them. All it takes is unzipping a zipper to get inside.
The famous Hotel Coronado.
Went into Tijuana for an afternoon. I can only describe it as much safer than I had thought, but absolutely 10 times seedier than anything I could have imagined. There were street walkers everywhere!
Walking back across the border it was quite the site to see all of these people selling things in the long line of traffic waiting to go back across into the US.
I made the second trip to the hospital in the last six years due to kidney stones. How fun. This time was a bit less traumatic, as I actually knew what was causing the extreme pain I was experiencing. Well six hours later and a nice morphine drip and most of the drama was over. Its amazing that these little things can cause your body to feel this much pain. The spec on the left is only a bit larger than a grain of sand. Back to drinking lots more water I guess.
My buddy Kevin had an absolutely amazing luau party with plenty of props ands everything. He really 
goes all out on these things and his Christmas party is also up there with the best of them. The guy even rented a real karaoke machine, and I was able to get my groove on with a classic rendition of Guns N Roses Knock Knock Knocking on Heavens Door. You should of been there, I was amazing!
I attended my first mud bog last month too, which was quite the experience. Kyle and I rode our motorbikes up to some land his uncle owns and once a month everybody in the area gets a bunch of 4x4's together and creates this huge pit of mud to run them through. It was pretty interesting, and 
I can only describe it as the most hillbilly type event I have ever been to in my life. Very entertaining though. They took a bit of a break and all the kids (along with a few adults), starting having a good ol time in in the mud. 
This stuff was waist deep in some places. Sunday of that same weekend I took another bike trip with some guys from work. We did the 2 hour ride over to Hell, MI which is quite an interesting place. Not really much of a town, 4 buildings or so, but there is a restaurant along with an ice cream shop. It is a serious motorcycle destination on the weekends.Last week I went out to Los Angeles to visit my friend Meghan who was an intern for GM a few years ago. I had an absolute amazing time and the trip changed my entire viewpoint of LA. I had always taken the typical Midwestern viewpoint of the area as too noisy, too crowded, etc, but I really became a fan of the place after experiencing it though the eyes of a local. Also mid to upper 70's everyday with low humidity is really tough to beat! Plus she lived about six blocks off the beach! Some pictures:
Universal Studios Hollywood was pretty impressive, I enjoyed the sites more than the rides.
The War Of The Worlds movie set in which a jet plane crashes: they took a real plane and ripped it apart.
The wonderful town of Whoville from the move How The Grinch Stole Christmas. It was funny because this is directly behind the Bates Motel.
There was a volleyball tournament on the weekend that was quite unusual. Thousands and thousands of people and all the teams in it had themes. Even thought the whole purpose was to come up with the most outrageous theme you could, the volleyball players themselves were very talented.
This team had authentic Masters caddie uniforms. They even used golf props when they played.
Attended my first Dodgers game. Thank you very much to Meghan's parents for the seats. I even came back with a Dodgers cap.
The setting for the stadium was absolutely beautiful. Another interesting fact was that Doc Brown (character only) from the movie Back To The Future threw out the first pitch. Only in LA.
Also managed to stop off in Anaheim on my way down to San Diego to see the Red Sox play the Angels. I even scored a free ticket in line out of the kindness of some stranger.
See what happens when a rental car agency screws up a reservation. You end up with a Jeep Wrangler for the week. This was a pretty sweet vehicle for cruising the beach, but you absolutely can't feel safe with anything locked up in them. All it takes is unzipping a zipper to get inside.
The famous Hotel Coronado.
Went into Tijuana for an afternoon. I can only describe it as much safer than I had thought, but absolutely 10 times seedier than anything I could have imagined. There were street walkers everywhere!
Walking back across the border it was quite the site to see all of these people selling things in the long line of traffic waiting to go back across into the US.
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