Medieval Times

A few weeks ago a group of us all when to the dinner and a show restaurant Medieval Times. We were there supporting the Green Knight - who turned out to be the villain of the evening who tried to kill the prince - for shame. Anyways the show was entertaining: there was jousting, sword fighting (the kind were you say-someone just die already!), over dramatic princesses, and dancing horses. I think we had the loudest most competitive group there, it was kinda funny to watch the guys reactions everytime the green knight came out.

Anyways, I think the most entertaining part of the night was the food. To give you a little background, everytime Doug watches a cartoon where the king is eating a feast or an old Greek movie or something-he always says he wants to make a whole chicken or turkey because they make the food look sooo good. With that said, at medieval times they serve you medieval style food so you eat these huge chicken breasts and legs with your hands. Its a mess, but its fun. Doug's plate was covered with chicken skin and bones and I don't know when I have ever seen him this happy.

Although parts of the show were corny, it was really fun and entertaining sharing it with our friends and watching Doug enjoy his medieval food.

4th of July

This 4Th of July, although we didn't go to the D.C firework show with everyone else due to being tired bums by the end of the day, still turned out fun with lots of laughs. A day or two before the 4Th Doug visited a firework stand and came home with hoards of what we THOUGHT were fireworks that actually launched in the air, that he of course "got a deal" on.

So on the 4Th, after going to dinner with our good friends Nicky and Kyle, we came back to our apartments and planned to launch these amazing fireworks from the roof of the garage...After much excitement and a runaway plan I might add - Doug lit the first/biggest firework and it turned out to be one of those ground like sparkler noise makers, and so did the next one and the next one.

Oh Doug was disappointed but he didn't let that ruin his night, he ended the night with a finale with 2 little gas bombs and like 10 noise makers...then to make the night thrilling still - he decided to jump through it all. If only I had a picture of that, well I don't because the last thing I expected was for my husband to go running through the bursting pile of fireworks sparks - but you never know, I should know by now to always have my camera ready with him. Anyways we all had a blast and a bunch of laughs with the puny display of our little firework show.

D.C. Pics

The second Sunday we got here, Doug and I went with our friends Rob and Jessie to go site-seeing in D.C. After getting on the wrong metro train, we finally stepped off into our nation's capitol to find that it was pouring down rain, and didn't calm down anytime soon. So we dashed into the National Air and Space Museum and watched an IMAX on Jet fighter pilots - guys choice, but it was really cool. We then bought ponchos and umbrellas and made our way to the Museum of natural history. The rain didn't stop us. We had a blast and even ended the day running through the metro stop up and down the stairs to try to catch our train home so we didn't have to wait another 20 minutes. Jessie and I were running after the boys laughing and yelling that there was no way we were going to make it...and we didn't. It just proves yet again, that patience truly is a virtue. But really it added to the hilarity of the entire day.

Wedding Pics

I realized that Doug and I never posted any picture of our wedding since we started this months after, so I decided better late then never...actually its quite typical for our style, we are quite the procrastinators. So here are a few of our favorite wedding photos. To see the whole bunch of them you can go to: www.weddingimagesonline.com, type Cassie Baze into Search Box. Then type in weddings into the login. Yep that's it. Tada!

Doug's Kite Surfing Day

Oh what a day this was. This was such sweet vindication to me that Doug was not automatically perfect at everything he attempted to do...that even for him, some things take practice to get right. I think the pictures pretty much paint a picture, but just to give you a little background, Doug asked his friend to let him borrow his kite and surf board to go kite surfing. He asked his friends to give him some pointers since this was his first time, but was convinced he'd catch on pretty quickly -like always. Well here is the way it actually went down: Doug got all harnessed up, watched his friend fly the kite, then he got behind it, a woman walked awkwardly around the kite strings almost tripping over them, which distracted Doug and led to him flying the huge kite into a tree! When the kite was retrieved, there was a huge tear down the center of the kite. It was funny but sad at the same time, funny for me, but sad because you could tell he was embarrassed that he ripped his friends kite and disappointed that he didn't even get out to the water. All in all it was still a fun day, and provided for a good story if nothing else!

My Brother's Hawaii Vacation

Last week, my brother, Gable came out to visit Doug and I in Hawaii for his Spring Break. It was an action packed week. He got in on Friday, and we took most of that day to relax, eat, get Hawaii necessities (snorkel, air mattress, groceries, fishing wire, etc.). Saturday morning we went snorkeling, and then took the afternoon to go surfing, My brother has been once in Santa Cruz, and I have never been, so to say the least, it was an entertaining afternoon for Doug to teach us. Sunday morning we left at 5 am to make it at the Shark Dive by 5:30. Gable really enjoyed that, and we are still waiting on our underwater camera pictures for that and surfing. Later that afternoon we went hiking at Maunawili Falls, which is like hiking through a jungle to end up at waterfall with multiple different cliffs to jump off of. Monday we went on another, easier waterfall hike in Waimea Valley, and finished the day at the beach Waimea, where Doug and Gable jumped off the Waimea rock. Tuesday morning, Doug and Gable went surfing and spear fishing, took a boys day away from me. And finally on Wednesday, we finished off the vacation with another full day of surfing, since that was Gabe's number 1 objective for his vacation. Anyways, we all had a blast and took lots of pictures to document all of the fun times.

Utah

Last week, Doug and I had the opportunity to spend the week in Utah while he did some pre-season sells for Platinum Alarms. We had such a fun time, we got to stay at his sister's, Camille's house, and hang out with all her children. Despite the eldest, Mackenzie breaking her wrist on our watch, we all had a blast. She was a trooper though, she didn't even cry and seemed more concerned about what activities she would be unable to participate in for a month instead of the pain. Along with hanging out with our nieces and nephews, we also went to dinner at Sundance with some of Doug's co-workers, which was fun, beautiful, and delicious. We did all of this and more, and still the only pictures we managed to take were of us on the way to and in the airport at our connecting flight in Las Vegas gambling a dollar each on the nickle slots. So typical, we actually had our camera with us the whole trip, but we just kept forgetting to take pictures until our trip was over. Oh well, I guess that is a memory in and of itself.