Key West

This was a cool tourist area. This is the Southern most point of the Continental U.S.
Cuba is 90 Miles! Very neat. Some of the following pictures are blurry, each bar got
harder to focus!

My friend Jeff. We stopped by a few of the Keys to take pictures and swim. The water was very neat although it doesn't show much in this picture. I didn't step in the water here as shortly after I took the picture, I saw a snake in the water. No thanks!

Check out the sign. This was an interesting bar to say the least. Unfortunately, the people

that took their clothes off should of kept them on, and the ones that kept them on, should

of took them off! Lots of times my pics get rejected when loading so maybe they are too

big. I just saw the option in the download to change their size so maybe that worked. I also

seem to have to do one pic at a time and not several as I get an error. Maybe they are too big

so this smaller option may work? Any tips would be great.

Notice the name of the bar. I think it was Ricks! haha

This is the first of several Margs. This one is Key Lime. I believe I had 4 Margs, 2 7&7s, and at least 8 Rum and Cokes!

We took pics of all the bars we hit. I believe we hit them all. But not all of them came out clearly!

One of many drinks.

I didnt want to get too close to the lizard. It gave me the creeps!

That lizard on the skateboard is real!

Sloppy Joe's

Here is the famous Sloppy Joe's Bar. They are a live webcam where you can get on the cam and wave to friends if they know you are there at that time. There was a fun musician there this night from Put n Bay near Sandusky Ohio. He had quite the following as half of the room was from Mi and the other half OH. He was hilarious!

Trying to look like a Bad Ass-Stay tuned for Key West Pics!

As much as I tried to look mean, I just couldn't.

More Florida Pics

Those are kite surfers in the background and thought they were so cool! I went over to talk to some of them to get an idea of what it is like. Looks pretty cool and they really get some air when they hit the waves. I plan to try that for a day next year.

The bottom picture is a Man O War. When I first got to Juno Beach I thought they were a sandwich baggie from a distance. Then got a closer look and asked someone. Their was a purple flag flying at the lifeguard station which I found out meant "Dangerous Marine Life". My first day there, they were all over the beach. Needless to say I didn't go in the water that day. They are filled with a blue substance of some sort with tentacles (not testicles!) stretching out from them. They were very cool to look at.

Florida Vacation

This is Juno Beach in Palm Beach Gardens. I went to 3 or 4 beaches and this was the best. Very pretty water, not many people, free parking across the street with very clean rest rooms! It was so relaxing. I did a lot of reading here.

Hard Rock Casino

This is the Hard Rock Casino near Fort Lauderdale. This is where Anna Nicole Smith died, so of course I had to take a picture. I spent the afternoon here at the pool while my friend and his friends had to do some work stuff, actually Code Camp! I did spend the morning at Code Camp. (This was an 8 hour day of various computer coding for softwared, etc) I keeping telling people, "This one time at Code Camp...." haha. Oh, I created next years Code Camp t-shirt. "I got laid at Code Camp 2008".
Hard Rock Casino is a huge hotel and casino with about 20 bars, shops and restuarants around it outside along with a lighted laser display of fountains sycronized to music. Very cool. I almost rode a mechanical bull here but I wasn't drunk enough.
Stay tuned for more pics to come and stories.

Finally getting around to posting some pics from Florida. I went to West Palm Beach for 10 days to visit a friend that use to live in Billings. It was a great time and will write more later. The pic at the restaruant was Hooters at the beach in Fort Launderdale. We came right from the airport to get a bite to eat.

First Snow!

This past week ago I had my first accumulating snow at my house, about 4-5 inches. It was a wet snow and stuck to everything. So I took a walk down to the river and sat on a rock for awhile to watch the sunset and to take some pictures.

Devner & Colorado Springs Weekend

A little late getting a post out but thought I would show some pics of my birthday weekend to Denver Nov 2-5. On the way down, I had a good visit with Scott and Kelly and their boys as we went to Chillis for lunch. Once in Denver, I stayed at The Homewood Suites in Lakewood. My very good friend and former boss from Key Bank, Donna and her husband Jim drove up from Colorado Springs Saturday evening. Also, my good friend Linda, from the bank, and her husband Lewis drove down from Fort Collins. Plus, my former roommate in Fort Collins back in 1994, Brook drove down as well. We all went to Old Chicago's for dinner. Of course, Donna and I had a few margaritas!

Then after dinner, I met up with a friend from my Fort Collins days in 1993-1996 and we went to some clubs in downtown Denver. Very fun! Although, I can't dance as long or stay out till closing like I use to! On my birthday Sunday, I drove down to Donna and Jim's in Colorado Springs for lunch at a very good Mexican restaurant, then came back after lunch and went to a beer bust with my friend in Denver starting at 4pm. All you can drink for 7 bucks! Very cool because he and his tennis team were the servers walking around with pitchers of beer. Every time your glass was going empty they filled it up. You never had to go get your beer! It was a fun weekend!

Same Ole Same Ole

Just a quick update since my trip to MI. Hmmm, no updates necessary! I did take a trip to Denver for my birthday weekend Nov 2-5 . On the way down, I stopped and met Scott, Kelly and their boys at their house and we went to Chillis for lunch. I didnt really take any pictures during the weekend but I did take a few and may post them later. It is just too much of a hassle to take a camera around to restaturants and clubs, etc. Sort of been in a big rut the past couple of months. The time change and darkness are not helping. Will try to get a post of the weekend soon.

Trip to Petosky, Michigan

We took a few family photos before my sister had to head south to Detroit. Very rare when everyone is together. The first pic is my sister, mom, and brother and me. The second is my sister, sister-in-law and brother...and the third is all of us with my brothers family, 1 niece and 3 nephews.