Daily Picture Project

Dec 26th Pic!

"Pork!!"

Leftovers from my dinner on the 24th for lunch, Pork with cranberries and string beans. We had initially planned on hitiching our bikes onto our car and driving up to Sedona, but the weather forecast in Sedona forced us to change our plans. In the end we stayed in town and cleaned the mess we created on Christmas day. After about 4-5 hours of hard labor we finally managed to get the place back to normal.

Dec 25th Pic!

"Gift time!"

Christmas Morning! We opened the presents at a fast pace so we could go for a bike ride into the city from South Mountain. Sonoran Bike Path, a bike path that goes into downtown Phoenix and beyond. The plan was to ride into Downtown, have a Bloody Mary at one of the Hotel restaurant’s, relax and ride back. The problem with the plan was that tying down bikes to the car takes a lot of effort; it’s one of those rare instances besides when moving residences where I wished I had a truck.

Dec 24th Pic!

"Menu Review"

X-Mas Eve! Since Eva and I had no real plans for Christmas, and therefore the Eve we decided to celebrate our holidays with a nice meal at Café Zuzu at the Valley Ho Hotel. Somehow every time we’ve been there we manage to get free food along with outstanding service. This time Eva found hair in the pasta dish (could’ve been hers) before she touched it, so we got it for free!! That’s drinks on the house!

"Russian 4 Russian"

After a great dinner we went to a local dive bar to knock down a few refreshments, the main reason we went there was to see the Christmas lights, apparently the “Coach House” packs the entire place with lights…evidenced by the picture and the lady looking at us, since we were the only ones at the bar with big ass cameras!

"Lights around"

Dec 23rd Pic!

"Stuck in Cork"

Uncorked! No not the wine bar, but rather the cork itself, which as you can see by the pic above has been put to a good use (reuse?). As any Prius driving dolt will tell you, recycling is a good thing, and after seeing a similar frame at a Winery in Tucson, I decided to make two. Lined up approximately 6 corks…best part is having to drink ALL that wine ;) …then I hot glued them, once that settles, glue a piece of cardboard on the bottom, then use a big kitchen knife to saw, for 3-5mins, finally insert pic! Done! …oh if you happened to drink all 6 bottles of wine at once, +10 points. If I help you drink that wine +20 points.

"To the roses"

Eva's Badgers ornament, I need one for UofA, too bad they aren't going to the Rose Bowl! :(

Dec 22nd Pic!

"Toting Gunz"

Bang Bang! Drove to the Scottsdale Gun Club to pick up a gift card for my Arm’s toting Boss for Christmas. He’ll get to unload some of that stress I’m sure I placed on him. This was a random Wednesday both Eva and I happened to have off from work, so I decided to make a quick run up to the Gun Club in my Jeans and a hoodie, figuring I’d be dressed up for that sort of crowd. When I got there I saw nothing but sparkling new Benzes, Porches, Hummers etc etc…as I’m walking towards the door in my ratty Jeans in a Hoodie that’s a size too big, and flip flops that are a few miles past their prime, two impeccably dressed men walk past me with a pistol tucked in the back of their jeans, the scene inside the club didn’t differ much. The store area, where I got my gift card, had 100’s of crazy looking guns which it seems like almost anyone can buy! Even Pink ones for the girls!

Later that day Eva and I made a day out of checking out downtown Gilbert, where we found some of the odds and end’s you see below. Yes that’s a Packer car! and a town’s old water tower…and random little Window decorations in downtown Scottsdale. Oh yeah we saw the Black Swan that night, and it was ok, the ending was good, but the whole time you had this feeling inside your stomach that this wasn’t going to end well.