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Merlin, OR ’09 Trip
Posted by jimbizzle in Family, Photo Blog, Vacation, travel on July 22nd, 2009
We took a trip down to my mom’s this weekend to go rafting. We also hit up downtown Grants Pass, Medford and the House of Mystery in Gold Hill. Good times. Enjoy the 140+ photos!
Disneyland 2009
Posted by jimbizzle in Photo Blog, Vacation, travel on March 30th, 2009
Friday morning we woke up around 4:30am to get ready for our 7:30an flight, drove to the parking lot, got on a shuttle, stood in amazingly long line, waited for our flight, and flew to John Wayne airport. Molly knew we were going to California, but she thought we were going to visit my Dad. It was hard keeping the secret. Patricia and I almost blew the surprise 50 times. On the shuttle ride from the airport to the hotel we decided to tell Molly about Disneyland because everyone on the shuttle was talking about it. She was very happy.
We had 3 day park hopper passes, but wanted to use them Sat – Mon. So, Friday we walked to Disneyland to cruse around Downtown Disneyland for some shopping. Walking there was GREAT! The hotel said there were 1.5 blocks away… Blocks my ass! It was miles, not blocks. 3 miles round trip. That night we met up with Patricia’s friends Steve and Mel. They were funny. We had a great time.
Saturday we did Disneyland. We did my favorite ride first, Space Mountain. That was a painful experience. The seats have changed, or I have grown (gotten fat), because I had to wedge myself in. My ass didn’t even touch the seat. The lap bar only did one click down, and as we started to go up the first ramp I started to panic. I pulled down as hard as I could. The lap bar clicked again. That click was wonderful and painful. My nuts got smashed even harder, but now I didn’t fear I was going to fall out. Anywho, we did all the other normal Disneyland crap that day.
Sunday we met my buddy Mike and his new GF Ali for breakfast. It was good seeing him, but it made me a little home sick. Ali was great. I approve of her. While at breakfast it poured rain. We were lucky. It didn’t rain the rest of our day. We went to California Adventure and did all the normal things there too.
Monday we did both Disneyland and California Adventure. We rode the Tower of Terror. That’s my new favorite ride. It’s not often my fat ass gets lifted out of my seat! That night we were supposed to meet up with Sandi and crew. Things happened and we weren’t able to meet her wife, and oldest son, but we got to meet Sandi and her youngest son. We went to Dave & Buster’s. Sandi kicked my ass at a basketball game, proving home much I suck at basketball. She has photo proof of her kicking my ass. Maybe she’ll send the photo so I can post it and publicly humiliate myself a little more.
Monday we had an afternoon flight home. We got breakfast, check out of the room, and hung by the pool until the shuttle came.
We had a great trip. I wish our vacation was longer. Here’s some photos. I’m not sure if the new photo blog format works well when telling a story like this. I tried to put them in order though.
Enjoy!
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- Waiting for a shuttle
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- Jimbo + Bored in the airport + Molly’s Toys = Oh dear
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- 7:30am Flight
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- Jags don’t come Jimbo Sized
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- Space Mountain
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- Fantasmic
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- Pixar Parade
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- Soarin’ Over California
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- Jumpin’ Jellyfish
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- All Aboard!
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- Tower of Terror
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- Dinner with Blogger Sandi and son.
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- Sandi’s loot.
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- Grizzly River Run
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- Molly’s Kitchen
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- Jolly Rancher Soda?!
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- Pool Signs
Operation D Land
We’re going to Disneyland! SWEET! We just booked our flights, hotel and 3 day park hoper passes. I can’t wait. We’re going to be going at the end of this month. The only sucky thing is it’ll be spring break and possibly rather busy. *shrugs* Oh well. We’ll still have fun.
Another Trip To California
Posted by jimbizzle in Photo Blog, travel on July 2nd, 2008
So I made a trip back to California for the 3rd time in a little over 2 months, but this time Patricia and Molly came with me. We were planning on going to the Grand Canyon, but with the price of airfare on the rise we thought it would be cheaper to drive somewhere… and it was. Flights for the 3 of us would have been over a grand, then we still would have rented a car and paid for gas. We ended up just renting a car and driving to California. We had the trip pretty much planned out. Something scheduled each day, but nothing with a real set time frame.
There was apparently a biker “Redwood Run” the weekend we drove down. We saw THOUSANDS or bikers camped out along a river. We were too awestruck to take a photo. Sorry. I really wish we would have. It was impressive. I couldn’t see any patches of earth under the bikes and tents. They were packed in that close.
Friday we spent at the Monterey Bay Aquarium and Cannery Row. We saw sea cretcures, ate, shopped, and looked around. It was fun.
After the jetboat ride we packed up and high tailed it home. We were tired. Patricia Mother was in from Andover, MA, and we need to meet up with her and Patricia’s sisters. We still haven’t gotten settled in. We’ve been on the go for the last week. This 3 day weekend will be nice. I need a vacation from our vacation.
Dustin & Danielle’s Wedding
Posted by jimbizzle in Photo Blog, travel on June 2nd, 2008
WOW! What a trip. I had loads of good times, and I’m not tired. I guess a 2 hours nap and 9 hours of sleep will help cure that. I took an ass load of photos this weekend. Over 120. I only have a few to share with you today, because I have some special plans for them. I wanted to do something special for Dustin so I devised the plan of the “Best Man Cam”. I’m going to get this photos printed up into a nice album for him. Sure they’re gonna have a gajillion super nice photos from the ninja of a photographer they hired (She blogs too), but my photos are more behind the scene and crapy by comparison to the before mentioned photographer. So here is how it went down.
I took friday off of work, woke up WAY too god damn early in the morning, and drove my happy ass to the airport. My flight left at 7am. I landed in Oakland about 8:30. I got my rental car and drove back to the airport to pick up Jeb who’s flight arrived about an hour after mine. Then we hit the road to Concord. We stopped at Nino’s house and hung out there for a while. We bought WAY too much food to BBQ because people were supposed to show up and kick it with us, but backed out. Just for the record. 8lbs of meat to make tacos is WAAAAAAAY too much for food 3 grown ass men to consume, but we tried… Oh did we try.
I then had to go to the mall and pick up my Tux. Good thing I tried it on. My pants we just a liiiiittle short. The dude remeasured them and they we about 3 inches short. I went back to Nino’s for a couple more hours, and then back to the mall to pick up my altered tux. I didn’t try on my pants do to time constrains, but there were still a little short. They must have been 4.5 inches short. Oh well.
I met up with Dustin and Dani, we loaded the car, and took for to Benica for the rehearsal. We walked through the cerimony about 3 times, went over details, had a Q and A session, and headed over to Pirate Pizza, who has surprisingly good pizza, for dinner. After dinner Dustin, John, and I went back to Dustin and Dani’s apartment and rocked the Wii until they early hours of the morning. We might have had a couple of drinks too. It was good times. (Note to self: Do not play John at Wii sports Boxing, or Tennis. He’ll school you like 4th grade!)
Saturday morning they boys met up at Chick’s doughnuts. MMMMM GOOD!!! They don’t just do doughnuts. They have a full on menu. 3 out of 4 of us ordered the county fried steak with gravy. Tasty! After breakfast Dustin and I went to Target. He needed some new boxer shorts. I tried to get him to buy bikini briefs to wear for the wedding night *wink wink nudge nudge*, but no dice (sissy). He just went with lavender boxers. I’m sure he looked pretty in them for Dani. Back to the apartment we went to shower and get ready.
We got to the wedding and loaded our jacket pockets with booze that John picked up. We then got some glasses of ice from the bartender (only serving beer and wine) and poured ourselves some drinks. We took some photos, greeted guests, had the mothers pin some flowers on us and got the show on the road.
The food was great, the music was good, people had a good time, and the love filled the air. Little things happened like the unity candles blew out from the Benica winds, waiter dropped a serving tray of champaign flutes on the groomsmen side of the table sending a title wave of champaign crashing down on our table and crotches, and I crushed a chair. Little things like that make a wedding rememberable. 
After all was said and done a small group of us headed to a local bar for drinks. Much to our surprise it was a karaoke bar. Most of us sang, some of us danced, and we had good times. We were there for a few hours until the bride and groom decided to spend the rest of the evening alone.Sitting at PDX v.2
Here I am again. This time I’m in the old part of the airport. It still has the faint smell of stale cigarettes. Nothing interesting is happening, which is making it feel like time is standing still. The smells here are killing me. Four old ladies walked by each with their own perfume on. The sent was so strong that my nose and back of my throat are burning. What in the hell makes old ladies put on so much perfume?!
Alrighty then, my flight boards in 10 minutes. Look out California! Here I come!
Doing My Best Man Duties
Posted by jimbizzle in Photo Blog, travel on May 16th, 2008
Last weekend I flew to California for Dustin’s Bachelor party. It wasn’t organized very well, and I feel a little bad about that. It took at while to figure out what we wanted to do. There was talk of a private striper (He’s fiance shot that down quick like), going to S.F., or going to Reno, NV. Dustin finally decided on Reno. Dustin gave me a list of 20 or something people to invite. Counting Dustin and myself… 6 people came. Well… 7 if you include one of Dustin’s old co-workers that was already there with his family. He was just able to tag along with us for several hours. Even though the only real plans were a rental car, hotel room, booze and boobs we had a great time. Here’s how the weekend unfolded.
