Sunday, November 16, 2008

A veteran's day walk

Last Tuesday I spent my day off exploring my nieghborhood. So many fun famous spots! Enjoy the pictures!

Saturday, November 8, 2008

Happy Birthday to Laura

We had a great time in AG for Laura's birthday! It is hard to believe how cold it was last weekend and this weekend it was roasting. Click here for the photos.

Thursday, October 23, 2008

BYE BYE CRANBERRIES ...ON TO THE WILD WILD WEST

The long awaited photos from the trip are here ...
CLICK HERE for pictures of Warren's Cranberry festival and other sights from my last week in WI

CLICK HERE for pictures from the trip.

Enjoy!!! We sure did! Stay tune for more updates from UCLA and Hollywood.

Friday, October 3, 2008

Plans are made to be change

So it looks like we are running a bit behind. Big surprise as I jammed so much into this trip. It looks like we will be in AG Monday night! All is well on our journey, yesterday we enjoyed the Badlands and tooks some pictures at Mount Rushmore!! This is a beautiful, barren part of the country. Today its off to Yellowstone, then on to Nevada. Salt Lake City will have to be another adventure. Looking forward to seeing everyone soon!! Stay tune for photos. Let plan on McClintoks Tuesday night!!!

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Photos from the last two weekends in WI

Click here for pictures of my bike ride through the tunnels.

Click here for pictures of my trip to Baraboo WI and the International Crane Foundation.

My time in WI is wrapping up, two four days til lift off!! Here is the itinerary for all of those inquiring minds. It is going to be a challenge wrapping up all the paperwork and saying goodbye to my new friends, but I am ready to be back and CA and can't wait to see my family and friends. Tomorrow I'll be attending the world famous Cran Fest! More pictures to come.

Last night I had "Friday Fish" with a co-worker and her husband and a friend. This is a WI /Midwest? tradition where all the restaurants serve their best fish on Fridays all you can eat style. Of course you only eat one serving as it is so big. At this particular restaurant the fish broiled or fried, is served on a slice of marble rye bread. I hate rye and asked the waitress to hold it, she replied, oh you don't really eat it, the bread soaks up the grease. This was said in a matter of fact tone as thought there were not a thing in the world wrong with needing something on the plate to soak up the grease.

Wed night: Chamberlain SD
Thurs night: Cody WY
Fri night: Salt Lake City UT
Sat night: Yosemite CA
Sun night: Paso Robles CA
Mon night: ***Please join us at Little McClintok's in AG for dinner at 6:30***
Mon-Thurs night: Arroyo Grande CA
Fri night: Hollywood
Sat night: Wicked at the Pantageous
Sun morning Aaron flies back to Ohio
Mon:relax and organize
Tues: orientation at UCLA
Wed: First day of work!!
Thurs: Work
Fri: Work
Sat: open studios SLO
Sun: Hang with Gramps and Gram!

Saturday, September 13, 2008

17 days left

I knew my time in Wi would fly, but I had no idea how fast. I have to be out of my little nest at the B & B by Tues. the 23rd because the apartment was already rented for CranFest. I guess CranFest is this areas main event, I can't wait to see it. I will be staying with a college from the VA who happens to be good friends with Suzanne who runs the B&B. She manages the kitchen at the VA so I've gotten to know her pretty well. She has an extra room and her house is within walking distance from work. I will be staying with she and her husband for about a week before leaving on the cross country treck.

The itinerary for the trip is done! CLICK HERE FOR THE MAP
I'm planning to get into SLO on Monday night. For those of you I haven't told, I'm traveling with a friend from Ohio named Aaron. I'm bringing a real-live mid westrener back for show and tell.

In other news I finally get to start doing Modified Barium Swallow Studies!! I have been waiting since day for a memory chip to make the system run, yes a memory chip that I could have bought at Walmart, just waiting for the buracratic paperwork to go through. I'm doing two a day until I leave to try and make up for the back log.

Here are some pictures from the beautiful Wisconsin country side, the leaves are already starting to change!
From Beautiful Wi Fall day

From Beautiful Wi Fall day