Off With His Head!

Ok, the Burger King has always given me the creeps. So has Sponge Bob. I know, I know, Sponge Bob you say? It must be a generational thing cuz the guy is a sponge! That's not right. Anyway, the new Burger King commercial with the King rapping and Sponge Bob there too, I just don't know. It keeps me up at night!

Thanks Gabe!

First listen to this:


Then watch this:

Dayton

Ok, I'm finally ready to post about my trip to beautiful downtown Dayton. It's in Ohio for those of you that don't know. Actually, Pretty Teacher and I drove through it last June on our way to Connecticut. Remember that post?

So the Pretty Guard had their finals (and Pretty Girl's final Winter Guard show, sniff, sniff) at the University of Dayton Arena. Pretty Girl wanted me to go so I did. The Pretty Guard's show was called Shattered. Their floor (if you don't know, a floor is what they perform on, it's about the size of a full basketball court and weighs at least 300 pounds, it's vinyl and measured 60' x 90'!) and was painted like a windshield that was hit with a golf ball with the entire windshield cracking.Their uniforms were black jumpsuits with a blue seat belt used as a belt.

The Pretty Guard did some traveling by air and every time they did they would help the flight attendants out with the demo:















The flight attendants loved it! So did the other passengers.















So, feeding the Pretty Guard was quite a task. We cooked in the hotel room (with the help of Diana, Holly and Lesa), much to the chagrin of the hotel staff. We blew the breakers 3 times during the very first meal. Because of that, we ended up spreading out our cooking duties, including the hall way:















What always amazes me about this group is the staff is constantly changing stuff up. Either what they wear, what they toss (flags, sabres or rifles) or the choreography. Here, they are changing up the flags while the Pretty Guard rehearses:
















Here they are rehearsing:














Pretty Girl celebrated her 21st Birthday while we were in Dayton:














Bianca and Parris also celebrated their birthday:














After the Pretty Guard performed, and finals were over, they participated in a dance class with Mia Michaels. For those of you who don't know who she is, she choreographs for So You Think You Can Dance, Vegas shows like Celine Dion and many other things.















Gabe and Pretty Girl really liked the class:














Then we drove to the airport, Cori ate a scorpion and we flew home. Good times!

Can't Catch Up

I'm still trying to catch up from last weekend with the stars. I'll post about our trip this weekend. In the meantime enjoy a video. Thanks to Michelle for this.

Pretty in Sin City

The Bellagio...






































































The Bellagio Lobby ceiling...










































It's hard to tell in the picture but the white is a wall of water...

In Vegas we stayed at the MGM. This was the view from the room. That's the New York Casino, you can kind of see the roller coaster. I watched it until the cars went upside down. I can't watch roller coasters go upside down. If I ride a roller coaster that goes upside down I throw up. Watching it makes me want to throw up, so I look away.














Here are the lions. We went to see them a couple of times and this is what they looked like every time. I'm not sure if they are real. The handlers looked really bored. I'm not sure they even needed to be there.














This is a picture of either a bride or a bridesmaid. We weren't sure because it was St. Patrick's Day and she could have been the bride. The dress was actually pretty but you can't tell from the picture because I had to stalk her to get a picture of her. This was as close as I was willing to get. I didn't want her to punch me. She kept talking to some old man sitting at a slot machine. We wondered if he was her father. We couldn't figure out where the rest of the bridal party was. They never showed up.













Bride in the Bar! She was having her first marital spat. We had a ring side seat. Note to all of you not yet married: It's probably not a good idea to go get wasted in a casino bar right after you tie the knot. She spent a good deal of the night without her man. He left shortly after this and didn't return until much later. Yeah, yeah, I was in the bar for a long, long time! Hey, I wasn't getting married so I could get wasted!













The rest of my pictures are of the strip and I'm sure most of you know what that looks like. There are other pictures that I can't show you so I won't. I do have pictures of the Bellagio, Wynn and Encore, but that's for another post.

The Road to Riches

So, if you go to Vegas via the dam you have to endure a lot of traffic. Those motorhomes only go so fast up and down the ess curves of the dam.

If you are unemployed you may want to consider this line of work (get it, line?).

This is what you see, which is risky because you can't take your eyes off of it yet, you have to dodge the pedestrians at the same time. This is the work that is being done for the bypass road so you don't have to snake up and down the dam. I mention that you may want to apply because I can't imagine anyone doing this job for very long. You either can't take the heights, or you fall.



May I just say that this work is sick and wrong and the person who decided that this expansion bridge was a good idea was either drunk or mentally insane! The crew has to be both.















There's a guy on that tower that just unhooked a piece of equipment from the helicopter. YIKES!














Anyone who grew up in California can only think of one word:

EARTHQUAKE!!!!!!

Next post: The Vegas trip (or what I can share of it)!