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Baltimore Trip in phone photos

Our trip began at 3:30 am. That’s important to note when you see this first photo (waiting for the shuttle in the Pike’s Peak lot at the Denver airport…IMAG5516_edit_resized IMAG5518_edit_resized

Somewhere near Dallas TX…
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The next morning in Hampden…
IMAG5541_edit_resized IMAG5542_edit_resized First breakfast was at the Golden West.

Then off to the Ridge…IMAG5544_edit_resized IMAG5545_edit_resized IMAG5547_edit_resized Joey was there.IMAG5549_edit_resized

We skated a street spot, then off to Frederick for Katie’s wedding…
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Then next day we ended up at the Pirate/Privateer festival…

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We did a little shopping, and I added this next photo because (if I’m correct) my parents ski with Art Blakey’s son…
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Later we checked out the Boston Street rails…IMAG5572_edit_resized IMAG5578_edit_resized

Brewer’s hill..
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And got to skate Tide Point in between security guard rounds…
IMAG5587_edit_resized IMAG5588_edit_resized Jack put in some effort. And broke two boards. Woo!

Next up was Johnny Rad’s with Joey and Christie…

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And finally some more Natty Boh’s…IMAG5596_edit_resized IMAG5597_edit_resized

Back in Hampden…IMAG5598_edit_resized

Then to Style’s neighborhood to meet up with her and Carl to skate the Ridge…
IMAG5599_edit_resized IMAG5600_edit_resized IMAG5601_edit_resized … and a quick stop at Carroll park too.

Then back to the airport for the trip home…

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And around 1am, we arrived to my car…
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Yay for spring in Colorado!!

Mini Hike in Fort Collins and a Squirrel

Awhile back, Jack and I made a trip up to Fort Collins to drop of some Null boards. On the way up we found this…

jack and the giant ramp thinghad to see it from the topWe fantasized about the truck being closer and skating from the top of the truck into this giant ramp thing. Unfortunately it was meant for a car dealership to display cars and was built purposely to not allow wheels to roll down it.

Jack wasn’t feeling like skating and I wasn’t too keen on driving straight up and back, so we ended up going on a mini hike before heading back to Boulder…

 

jack!

 

texting. woo

 

nature

 

about to start the hike

 

more nature

 

got some view

 

jack and the view

 

jumping on the rock

 

horsetooth reservoir

 

checking it out

 

i'm following

 

reservoir lookout

 

my turn for the photo op

 

making moves

 

yeap

 

crazy crazy.. on the ice in 50 degree weather

 

and not falling through

 

so crazy

 

and for the final rock

 

we needed a big one..

 

to leave our mark of course

 

i think it worked out

 

up close haha

 

last one from the hike

 

 

Fun times. Then a little while later, a squirrel came to visit…

the squirrel

 

jack fed him some bread

 

so funny

 

 

My real camera died, but there are many more pictures from my phone…

posing for the camera and wallace

yup

haha

 

pointing

 

he (or she?) really really wanted in the apartment

 

getting a treat

 

with both the cats

 

And that’s all for today’s postings.

and another of brigus

home to RI, dogs, RCB party, beach visit

Time to head home for the holidays! I was really happy that Chip and I were on the same flight. After going out to breakfast with Anna and her mom, we finished up our laundry, drank a mimosa, handed off my apartment key to Jack (thank you!) and caught the bus to the airport…

My brother Clay picked us up at T.F. Greene airport around 11:30 or so (thanks Clay!!) and drove us straight to the Ocean Mist. Ahhhh. It was super windy and raining a little, but I still made my way onto the back deck to watch the waves crash and taste the salty air. Then back in to take some cell phone photos…

 

We ended up getting kicked out after closing time and heading back to the farm to go to sleep for the night. The next morning I was happy to pull out my real camera to take some photos of the dogs, Beau and Brigus…

 

That day a lobsterman friend dropped off a bucket of lobsters for the Christmas lobster bisque. Time for cooking…

While we hung around the farm, Liz worked on her dish for the RCB party that would be happening later that night.

It was essentially bread slices with italian seasoned cream cheese wrapped in bacon. I’m not a huge fan bacon (unlike pretty much everyone else in the country), but I image that recipe couldn’t steer you wrong.

I also took a photo of a piece of the photo wall in the hallway at the farm…

Years of memories!

That night my Aunt Marcia and Uncle Bill took my brother and I, as well as some of Bill’s nephews and one niece, out to dinner. I went with a delicious pasta and seafood dish…

 

After the delicious dinner, it was off to the RCB Christmas Party. This year it was hosted by Luke and Molly at the Hawksley’s beach house in Matunuck. Such a blast…

As hosts of the party, Luke and Molly gave a speech…

 

After the party wound down and we did a little cleanup, people claimed sleeping spots. Chip and I ended up on the blow up mattress on the floor. He later told me that someone asked who he spent the night with on the floor… that person was probably surprised to find out it was, in fact, his sister (and not in some weird West Virginia/Kentucky type way!). Ha.

Anyways, we got up early and took a quick look at the beach. It was the first time I had seen our beach house after Hurricane Sandy…

Back home to the farm to get ready for Christmas Eve/Christmas. My dad does all the prep work for our Christmas dinner. So, here’s my dad in the kitchen…

 

And one last photo for this post… my mom recovered one copy of this year’s Christmas card so that she had one to keep (I believe she swapped out this one for a different version)…

So awesome… and Glen even got some photo credit (well, minus the credit) with the 180 nose grind picture!

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A few skate sessions in late November

Here’s three days of skate sessions to begin my attempt at catching this blog up to speed…

Starting with a session in downtown Denver with Glen, Skelly and Mike.

Skelly’s line went like this:

 

Pretty awesome! Then there was this dude…

This session happened to be the same day as the Pretty Sweet premier. I took a few photos in the theater before the no-cell phone ban began…

The day before Thanksgiving it was seriously 80 degrees, sunny and beautiful. I met up with Ashlyn and friends for a bit and went to this spot…

Of course this happened:

Then on the Saturday (or Sunday?) after Thanksgiving it was down to about 25-30 degrees. But I braved the cold to have a little Southern Hills session with Glen, Ollie and Bernie.

 

Glen and Ollie worked on a father-son line…

… until Ollie decided Glen was taking too long to land his tricks, that is. Ha.

 

Jack and I headed up to Breckenridge a few weeks ago… a Saturday in mid October. We had a pretty mellow Saturday night, involving Empire Burger and chilling in the hot tub.

Sunday we started the day with a scoping skate spots. I don’t have any photos of the first spot (well three or four spots in one type of spot), because I did a little filming with Jack’s camera when I wasn’t the one skating. The next two photos are my only evidence…

But after a second trip to Empire Burger, I got a few photos…

We returned to spot lurking and came upon this massive gap. I think it deserves a few photos… (no skating photos, though, because filming took precedence)

After some filming fun at that gap, we went back to spot searching and found a nice little gap for me (ha!) that Jack still had some fun with. As soon as we were done, a fox randomly popped up and started roaming around…

 

We left the fox… or really, I think the fox left us. So we roamed around a bit more, then snapped some photos before going back to chill…

We hung out for a bit, playing dice and waiting for Matt Warner and his friend Nate to arrive.

Then we went to some bar that during the “off-season” had free pool and pinball.

That was about if for the night… minus the 3am trip to 7-eleven because we waited far too late to get food and that was the only option we came up with after starting to look around 12:30am.

The next day we headed out to Frisco to skate a spot Jack had unfinished business with. First the “warm-up section”:

Then the real deal:

Chip showed up and cruised around on my board…

Once we finished at this spot, I brought up the idea to search for the full pipe in Leadville, yet again. This time we had a little bit more direction because Matt hit up Skelly who told us which lake it was at. A little google map action and we were on our way.

First we just scoped out Leadville and found an awesome pizza place to eat…

Next up, full pipe searching once again…

Regardless, another unsuccessful yet fun adventure searching for a full pipe.

The next morning we took a ton of photos on the way out of Breckenridge and back towards Boulder…

Then home to Boulder!

hi jack!

cell phone dump (Denver Art Museum, skee ball, dice, darts and more)

The cell phone pics I took at the Denver Art Museum trip I took with Odessa on Free First Saturday in October…

At the Mile High Horror Film Festival later that night…

We saw a Canadian comedy… it was awesome. Funny, a little gory… perfect.

Back at home with this guy…

The day Jack, Xander and I went to play mini golf. Oh yea. We drank a bunch and then took the SKIP to North Boulder…

Mini golf was worth photographing… although it was awesome, but I did get some skee ball pics after we finished our put put game.

Jack and I made a Null delivery to Crisis one Tuesday night…

Glen usually wants a photo of the delivery, so I tried to see if I could get all three of us and the Null swag in one photo. Ha. Didn’t work too well…

Then we went on a mission to get pool coping for rampy and then met Glen and Jake to skate downtown Denver. We ended up at 18th and Welton the whole time (not much for cruisin around) but I had so much fun. And Fuzz, well, he ended up at the bar…

After that skate mission, Jack and I ended up back at Crisis for some beers, dice, and welcoming in Jack’s birthday once the midnight hour struck.

Killing time in Target, taking photos of this ridiculous book…

Friday night, hanging with the newly weds…

And then, about to leave on an adventure…

off came the stockings

Cell phone dump – Ashlyn’s birthday, Black Dots show, the movies and much more

Photos ranging starting around mid-September…

Starting with Ashlyn’s birthday. Woo. I met up with everyone at place with dollar tacos that night. We were sitting outside which became rough when it started to rain. There was time to kill before Voodoo comedy so the party moved to Ashlyn’s place.

Voodoo Comedy was our next mission, but without any of us realizing until the show started that we there on a burlesque night. Oops. There was much confusion on whether it was comedy… whether we should be laughing… and just what was going on.


What a show! Super fun night.

Chip got back to town super late that night and we got some breakfast the next morning at the Village.

Glad to have you back in Colorado, bro.

Went to see a Black Dots show at the Hi Hat a few nights before Fuzz and Leslie’s wedding…

Fun times!

The night before Fuzz and Leslie’s wedding, I got my hair flat ironed (always fun) and met Brian and Denise for a bit of trivia at Ralphies. This is my “messy self portrait” I took…Ha!

Then I headed back to Boulder and met up with Chip and crew for a bit.

Saw so many people at the Pub that were all visiting Boulder for the weekend, and then snuck home early to avoid the end of the night Attic mission everyone else seemed to be on…

Next morning it was wedding time! Another self portrait on the way to pick up Jack…

Not sure why that photo had really low resolution. Ahh well.

So, I already posted my wedding pics, so next was the day after. I left my car at Glen’s house the day before, so this is on the lovely walk to go get it…

That was about it for that day if I remember correctly.

Here’s some more randomness…

And some photos from a little field trip… Fuzz took Connor, Chris and I to the movies to see a live airing of the Maloof Money Cup taking place in South Africa I believe. 

There were about 8 people total in the full-sized movie theater, yet we still managed to really piss off a mom there with her two young kids. She kept shussshing us, as if talking while watching a “sporting event” isn’t the norm. So eventually she got up and told us she was going have to get someone to “deal with us”. When she marched back in proudly she just said “I told you at first nicely”. Anyways the dude working at the movie theater definitely did not care at all, but he did his duty to tell us to quiet down and so we just moved to a different section of seats. So dumb. At least I could get some decent screen shots from our new seats…

In the parking lot, we found a lovely Hello Kitty croc. We all know Fuzz loves crocs, so we left it for him on his back bumper.

Now more randomness…

the front row

Rhode Island in september – day 5 sunday the 16th

After my butterfly hunting adventure, I headed back to the beach house for some breakfast.

Chip was there

And Clay and Liz……having cheese, crackers and red wine for breakfast. Ha.

Then Liz went home to get some stuff for the day. I went to pick her up and stopped by the bathroom by her house…

Liz and I took a trip down to the Umbrella Factory… so happy I fit this in before my vacation was over!

Saw another one of these at the gas station:

Then some photos driving back to the beach…

After stopping by the beach quickly, Liz and I made the trip out to the farm for football and dinner…We made the dinner using eggplants, squash, onions, garlic, peppers, tomatoes, (and maybe more?) from the garden…Marcia made the delicious eggplant parmesan and roasted squash. I made the salad and garlic bread/almost bruschetta-type bread. So good.

Then back to the beach for some beers by the citronella candle on the deck…

Eventually we decided to move inside and start up a card game…

Awesome game of asshole. And in the end I was the asshole because I had to finally kick my friends out sometime after midnight, because I had to wake up the next morning at 4am to pack and leave for the airport.

I did see some of the sunrise from T.F. Greene airport…

And then back to ColoRADo.

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Rhode Island in september – day 4 saturday the 15th

I woke up at a little after 6:30am and remember Sue had told me the sunrises had been so beautiful right around 6:30. It was overcast, though, on Saturday morning, and I was a little late, so this is what I saw…

All well. At least I had one more morning in the Rhode Island coming up.

Anyways, it was Meagan’s birthday! 30th birthday! Happy Birthday!!!

So naturally I met up with her first thing (and her house is about 50 yards away from my house… or less? I’m so terrible at estimating distance).


Meagan wanted breakfast at the Mist, so we waiting until a few minutes before 9am and then headed over. I will say, this was the first time I’ve ever arrived at a bar and had to wait for someone working to unlock the door for me because it was just opening up. Yikes. Ha.  It was a little cold at this point, so we stuck with a table inside, but right next to the windows.

We each got my favorite breakfast at the Mist – Something on a Bagel with a Bloody Mary. Doesn’t get much better than that.

While we were there, the sun started to poke through the clouds…

… so beautiful.

After we ate, we stayed for more drinks because a  few people said they’d come and meet us. Sara and Tim both showed up, to name a few…

After my second Bloody Mary, I was set and ready to get out of the Mist before it sucked me in any further (this can happen there on the weekends) So I took off before the rest of the crew and decided to walk back home along the beach.

This is the first interesting thing I came across…

That day we invited the family down for a day on the beach and a bbq. The weather ended up coming around enough that sitting on the beach worked out. It started with just Marcia and I……but eventually we had a big crew. Can’t believe I didn’t get a picture of the full line of chairs and people. Oh well!

After a bit, we made our way of the beach for a some steamers (clams), burgers, corn, potato salad, tomato salad, and more…and desserts…

Then some sunset photos on the beach…