Happy Ocho De Mayo!!

CB 8 May, 2008
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Monday May 5th (Cinco de Mayo) is a prime example of why living on a boat is far more fun than living in a house/apt./condo. Me and Tawn were unloading something out of the back of my Jeep on Monday morning as a friend of ours walks up and tells us they are having a Cinco de Mayo dock party on their boat at around 6pm.

Awesome!

We go about our daily goofing off and hop in the dinghy and head down to D dock where Mike and Amy keep thier boat “Peregrin” docked. We brought a bunch of Tamales and beer. Mike is cooking up a big batch of Enchaladas, we are introduced to a couple friends of theirs and start talking boats….

Within an hour there are 15 people from up and down the dock and marina adding food to the pot luck and beer to the cooler. I spot another friend of mine a few docks over working on his boat and zip over and invite him.

An hour after that and there are easily 30+ people at the Monday night Cinco de Mayo dock party, having a great time, eating awesome food. One guy rolled up a dock cart with a small grill in it and is cooking up an awesome batch of tortilla soup. We all hung out well into the night, probably way to loud for a Monday night. But no one complained or if they did, they ended up grabbing a drink and a plate of food and hanging out for awhile.

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Oops, been awhile since I posted anything. (CB)

CB 16 April, 2008
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Ok, snowboarding season is over. Good thing too, since I sorta tweaked my left knee a little bit the last time we went up. The upside of this for you, the readers of this lame little website is you no longer have to watch stupid video of me or Tawn snowboarding like this anymore:

The downside, you now have to look at picture of me and tawn doing boating stuff.

Let’s see, what have we been up to since that last video was taken? Hrmmm, lets see. I think that video was taken up at Crystal Mountain around the first of March. So that would mean that the weekend or two after that would have been the 8th annual St. Paddy’s Day Pub Crawl/Death March.

That if the name does’nt clue you in, is an annual event that takes place on….St. Paddy’s day. Where starting at 10am we hit one bar an hour for 12 hours on a planned out walking route through downtown Seattle. It is hell on earth but fun as hell!! :)

I took a look through the pictures from this night…..Not alot worth posting in there. :) But there was this one, that I really like:

Tawn & CB riding the S.L.U.T

This was taken about 3/4 of the way through the crawl. Apparent by the fact that Tawn is swinging from the hand rails on the S.L.U.T. (South Lake Union Trolley). And sadly the odd folks in the background are friends of ours. Not so much Ti & Luke, but I’m not sure what the hell Eric is up to back there??

Other than that, we took a few weekend boat trips….hang on a sec and let me see if I can dig up a picture or two…………

Ahh here we go. Later in March we took off at night right after work and sailed over to Blake Island and met up with our very good friends Scott and Angie on Ghost as well as a few other friends. I’ve written about Blake Island before. It is a small island which the entire thing is a State Park. The only way to get there, obviously is by boat. So it is very chill and relaxed and rustic, even though it is only 8 miles from Downtown Seattle:

Seattle Skyline at night

We took a few other trips, but to be honest, nothing very exciting or noteworth. And what few pictures we did take, are sort crappy.

Oh and I almost forgot. As if we did’nt have enough boats or spend too much time sailing, we bought a little 10 foot sailing dinghy. Mostly for goofing around on in and around the marina, check it out:

New Dink

That last picture is mostly for Tawn’s dad, so he can get an idea of what the boat looks like.

Other than a few scuba diving trips, and unfortunatly work, that is about all we have been up to. I’ll try to update the site more often.

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CB 9 February, 2008
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In case you haven’t noticed, we do a lot more snowboarding than sailing in the wintertime. And here in the PNW we have been getting dumped on snow wise. Almost everyday has been powder days. Yesterday was no exception. Tawn was sick as hell and had to stay home. So up to the mountain (Crystal Mountain) I went.

While I was up there I decided to see if I could film while I was snowboarding. Turns out I could, it also turns out I cannot do it very well. It’s alot harder than you would think to hold a small camera reletively still while sliding down the side of a mountain at 30 miles an hour and dodging trees at the same time.

Actually, it did’nt turn out to bad for a first attempt. Don’t make fun of the way I’m talking…it was cold as hell and my lips were frozen. Or maybe that’s the way I always sound and just never realized it.

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Ok, now we are even. (CB)

CB 6 February, 2008
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Tawn, my buddy Dan and I were up at Stevens Pass ski resort on Super bowl Sunday and Monday. The video below was taken on Monday February 4th.

And just to be clear, I am not posting this video to display my incredible snowboarding skills, or Tawn’s talent for filming (and defenitly not for her color commentary). The main reason is to level the playing field. A couple weeks ago, I posted a video of Tawn, in which she wipes out. I may or may not have also aluded to her sobriety at the time, I don’t honestly recall right now.

In the following video you will see me wipe out at the end of it. While I was definetly sober, if you look closely right before I wipe out, you can see a small woodland creature scurry across my path. I had to resort to desperate measures to ensure the little guy escaped unharmed. I am nothing if not a friend of all creatures, both great and small. Enjoy the video:

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