Indiana Memories Part 2

At one of the cabins we had rented while we were in Brown County, yes this one actually had a Port-A-Potty. There was an actual bathroom in the cabin so we never actually had to use this, but humorous nonetheless. Clearly my dad and Jen were amused.
Me and Chris, not sure where we are here, I think this was one of Manda's Pre-Graduation parties which we had a good time at.
Chris at one of the Cabin's on the back porch looking out into Brown County Indiana.
Haha just love the expressions in this picture. This is again at one of Manda's Pre-Graduation parties.
Mom and Dad walking up to the Cabin.

Indiana Memories Part 1

Ok Indiana will have to be broken into a few sections here, first off me and Jen got in a little sooner than Chris and Dave and we joined Manda on campus to try and find her cords. A hilarious trek across 90% of the campus to a building Manda should have known ensued. Including asking some poor Asian girl for directions and the girl asking Manda if she was a new student to which Manda had to reply "no I'm actually graduating" and the Asian girl was a first year student with a map and clearly dissappointed in the whole sitation.
We went down to a place called Bean Blossom Bridge in Brown County, and saw this awesome barn and lake farm house down in the woods some. It was just the coolest place ever!
Me and Jen at a trail on campus at IU and in the pouring rain, again part of the continued pursuit of Manda's cords.
Bean Blossom Bridge, and the 12th picture take because Mom and Dad weren't quite positive how to work the camera, so me and Jen were starting to get a little goofy, figuring the pictures may never be taken at all.
Just a building on IU campus, really cool old buildings like this were all over campus.


Ok so this post is quite a bit delayed, but just needed to get the pictures up and some thoughts.

Really loved Indiana. Was out there for Manda's graduation from Indiana University in Bloomington Indiana. Was really good to see the family again, and even better that Jen came with and we met Dave and Chris there! Made for a really fun time!

North Carolina Departure the remix

First off, Happy Mother's Day!!

Sooo, finally wrapping up my great week of vacation.
I'll refer back to the vacation as a whole in more detail throughout the week with color commentary and pictures for references, so stay tuned.
Anyhow, I write this blog sitting in a Hotel room in a Marriott in 'Cincinnati' even though I'm technically in Kentucky right now, something about Cincinnati's airport is not even in Ohio, strange, the Midwest can be nutty like that sometimes.
Soo, was due to fly out of North Carolina this even @ 6:30 to make it to San Diego by 10:00pm tonight (Mother's Day) and then from there I was going to drive through the night to be in Salt Lake by Monday morning, do some work, attend some training classes and visit all the friends and fam back home.
But all this changes, first off we were under severe Tornado watch in Raleigh/Durham where the airport is in North Carolina, as Riley is taking us to the airport, we're driving through pouring sideways rain, just looking at the looming black clouds, hoping that a funnel just doesn't start right over head. Finally end up making it to the airport, me and Nick fly out at about the same time, just on different airlines, but thankfully we're in the same terminal so we do the whole checkin and everything together. First off it must be noted, at check-in I was checked in by one of the most gorgeous women I've ever seen, she asks about Salt Lake, funn conversation ensues...anyhow, I digress, she assures me no flights are delayed or cancelled.
Get up to the gates, everything there appears to be in order, Nick takes off just fine, walk over to my gate and there is a huge line, everyone standing looking frustrated waiting for the people behind the counter to fix them. Evidently our plane had some problems getting into Raleigh and had to head back to its original starting place, but now was headed back. Only it would be coming a good 4 hours late, which was bad news for my flight taking off from Cincinnati toward San Diego...
So get up to the counter finally they change me up, I fly to Cincinnati, and am flying out to Salt Lake City first thing in the morning. Perks in this whole debacle: They were sold out of coach seats on the flight from Cincinnati to Salt Lake in the morning, so they unfortunately had to upgrade me to First Class, so I'll be riding in style. Secondly, they sent everyone else who had fliht problems to the Country Inn, here in Cincinnati, but by the time I got to the counter they had given away their last room, so I had to go to this gorgeous Marriott here instead, tough break :) Sat by people who also attended the Kanye West concert we saw in Raleigh, and chatted about the show for a couple hours, good times! Kanye is amazing.
Best Kanye quote right now:
"To whom much is given, much is tested" Trruuuuue that! :)

Another week in paradise

Actually, it was just beautiful this past week, but nothing really too exciting.
Just getting ready to head to Indiana and Raleigh for the week. Going to Indiana to see my baby sister's Graduation! I'm so proud of her it's awesome and she will be heading to Penn State next Fall! Out there with Pitino and she'll be a proud Nitny Lion.
Then heading to Raleigh N.C. to visit Riley up at his school in Henderson to watch him teach one of his last classes. Riley does this program called "Teach for America" and it is seriously one of the best concepts ever, I really love it, and I honestly tell anyone I can about what Riley does, it's truly comendable and he is the man for sure. On Friday night the 9th in Raleigh we will be heading to see Kanye West which should be an awesome time. So really looking forward to this upcoming week! I will have pictures to follow, sorry I don't have more, busy week trying to prepare to head out!

Miracle League

So here are a bunch of pictures from this league I have been volunteering for, it seriously is one of the best things I have ever done, I really love it.

This is me with Brennan and his 'Buddy' Zack. Every player has a buddy who is with them to support them, and me Ted and Kristina are coaches who basically sub in as necessary and help get the batting lineups and help wherever we are missing 'buddies' but you'll also notice that some of the buddies are young kids to, so the kids need a lot of support.

You can just see how much fun they all have out there, and it is seriously the best to help them out and give them all the opportunity to play baseball it's amazing.

Life in my Cube

This hilarious You Tube spoof pretty much personifies my daily life.
My Cubicle
So we've had a pretty busy week trying to get ready for the Board Reviews at the offices. Happy to say our big boss came in and said all of our reports went over very well and they were very pleased with the progress of the new web page we are developing. Note, I thought that creating a web page wasn't that big of a deal before...Developing new pages for 16 new hotels plus corporate sites, and getting SEO (Search engine optimization) into all of the pages and copy for every different site within there, like Meetings, Best Rate Guarantee, Local Guides, etc. etc. turns out to be quite a project really. But apparently it went over well, so we're pretty happy today.
Thursday night had a basketball game back in my Co-Ed league in balboa park, It went really well, I think I only made a layup or two, but dished out the rock some and beat the team by 10 or so and held a 20 point lead most of the game. The other team was actually playing 3 girls and 2 guys most of the game too, their girls were far superior to their guy talent on their team. So that was a good time, followed that up by heading to a party with some friends from the hotel. It was pretty retro really, reminded me of the college days. Watched all 22 innings of the Padres Rockies game which dragged out to a 3-2 loss for the Pads fun game to watch though, great pitching battles.
Not too much else the rest of the week happened, Jen came home, filed my taxes, cleaned the house the luxuries in life really. We do have a new The Office on the Tivo to watch so I will be looking forward to that! Talked to sister a couple times this week was really good to hear from her! So proud of her graduating and getting honors and recognized for really how great she is! I'm so excited to get out to Indiana and visit her in a couple weeks!

Events since Vegas!

Ahh where to even start, been keeping busy and having a lot of fun lately!
Soo, have a good friend coming to hang out this weekend, which should be really fun. Will probably go to Torrey Pines and Coronado Island, neither of which I have been to yet really so it will be fun to see and explore.

Since I've last updated, Lets see what I've done.
Saturday's I've been coaching my little Miracle League baseball kids, it is seriously the best experience ever. The parents the kids, all the volunteers it is soo fun. And it was cooking out there last week about 85 degrees probably. Also have been playing a lot of Softball, I'm in a league which is really fun and after last week I got recruited by 3 teams so I've been getting quite a bit of ball in, it's so nice. Jen went to visit Dave last weekend so had the house to myself, didn't really do too much, hung out with Paul on Friday night and on Saturday we went to Lori's housewarming party which was a fun night too. I will post some pictures of my kids from the team, and just finally got new batteries for the camera so will get some more photos up!