DFW July 4th Weekend

We drove to Plano & visited my new Newphew Kia

& his parents in Plano this Fourth of July Weekend!

Saturday- 8lunch@ Kenny's Burgers - Witnessed a El Jefe Challenge ! - Jefe won - The whole burger weighs in at a massive 7 pounds — and over 7,000 calories.

Mom Chris and Lauren went to the hospital to see Kai -So Tyler and I went to the Stone Briar Mall they have EVERYTHING! & This is where I acquired my new reefs.

Sunday (8lunch@P.F. Chang's :) then the boys staked out primo spots atop parking garage in Addison to View Kaboom Town. 3rd Largest Firework Show in America

Here's a few Clips from our view!

& Aerial Show

We Had the Best spots for the show - the flush of 250,000 + spectators left us stranded on top a clogged parking garage. To pass time

we hiked over to The Mucky Duck and squeezed in

(literally, place is popular!)

The current of people flowed us through the bar to a relaxing back patio w/ fire pit

Overlooking apartment balconies,public pedestrian sideways, and views into a open parking garages make for unintentional voyeuristic late-night sights.

but Overall a Great Place to end the night-

Been There.. Done That- Sipapu/Taos, NM

Five of us packed into the truck Thursday night with our skis and boards & made 3day weekend ski trip to the land of enchantment

Sipapu/Taos, New Mexico - December 2010

Tyler wasn't to graceful on Ski's, but he did rock the Ski Bike

we Stayed @ the El Monte Sagrado

in a Global suite -The Texas Suite

2 bedroom Villa w/ private courtyard & hot tub! *aka*- Awesome!

Thanks Randy & Matt for the Marriott family discount :)

We met a few interesting people while trying to recover from falling down the mountain :)

The hotel's artsy snake bar is nice- but frowns on bringing your own wine and using their glasses. (FYI:)

The nightlife gods weren't so gracious this trip around Taos

The Concierge shuttled us to a downtown bar (the alley bar) tucked in a back corner of a pueblo shoping center,

where they wanted us to pay $15 & it was closing in 30 min.

So we bounced in the shuttle to the Taos Casino

...where they just closed the tables :(

So we went back to the hotel and enjoyed our hot tub

& sweet tea vodka :)

On the way home we cured everyone's gambling blue balls by stopping

@ The Ohkay Casino in Santa Fe

I kept it frugal @ The Ohkay Casino bar while the team brought back the big bucks

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Here are a few clips automovied from pics from the weekend

& Here's a map of our adventures

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Been There.. Done That - Telluride, CO

Vacation Flashback

**I wish I would have blog scrap booked about!

"if I could turn back time" - Cher

Telluride CO. December 2009

- Tyler's first time to go to Colorado + just graduated w/ his masters,

we loaded up the dogs (Knox and Zodi pg with puppies)- for a snow-blanketed road trip!

Stayed a couple nights in Telluride

(Contact Henry C. Lystad (henry@Telluride.com) for Great great deals on great places in Telluride! *)

& one night in Taos, NM (Adobe & Pine Inn)

** Apologies to Adobe Pines for lifting your remote & forgetting to sent it back

(I even have it wrapped in bubble wrap-ready to box)*

We snowmobiled with TSA to Alta Lake ghost Town (Amazing)

Took the dogs on the Telluride- Mountain Village Gondola

Tyler picked on a guitars @ Telluride Music Company

then rummaged through the Free Box for treasures

Found a dirty smooshed 'I love chris hat' & mailed it to him from Rico, CO

Sampled local brews @ the Smugglers Brewery & House infused Vodka's @ the Steaming Bean

& Breakfast @ the Steaming Bean

Telluride is a terrific place for a drunken stumble/ midnight town park dog walk)

*fyi* Beware sporting events in town - Local bars become exclusive list bars -

{Snowboard World Cup was going on when we went & the Bubble Lounge denied us access because we weren't on the 'list' }

Telluride is a great place for well behaved dogs

** Zodi snarled @ well behaved friendly yellow lab Labrador outside of Baked in Telluride

Which is now Destroyed since the February 2010 Fire

:

Bought the dogs $80 worth of dogs boots so their feet wouldn't freeze

{which they didn't appreciate}

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- on the way up- to Co we took a wrong turn and we found a this HUGE hole in the earth-

The Rio Grande Gorge Bridge

-** On the way back we took this portion of HWY 3 - One of my most interesting drives EVER- This is a curvey Old Border Town Shnit- BUT there was a Shabby winery , would have stopped but I felt we should keep our windows up and hands in @ all times. + I saw a tar baby tree!

.:Also

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.::.Listened to Sarah on audio-book on loan from Tyler's PaPa.:

.:+Her voice fit the mountain terrain

&then on the way home Zodi began labor & had 4 puppies by the next morning!

Sheridan Telluride Timeline:

Got Quail?

Tyler & his Boss bought 52 quail. They're hanging out in the backyard til October!

24th Birthday

Observed the wicked lazer-show of-an-acid lovers wet dream Called Ghostland Observatory

ps. Really wanted to see thier opening band nelo- but missed it ;\

the View was Sweet, "Even deep in the cheap seats"

-Conor Oberst