Epic Friday

I bought a new camera, the Cannon S90. So I expect to be taking many more pictures now.





So I took it out when I went to the USA world cup game Friday at 7am. In the first five minutes it was useful because I saw this truck that had been repainted by what I assume was someone's ex-girlfriend.





We enjoyed the game and glad it was a tie, but were looking for the win. Lost that bet...





From there, Tara, Matt and I had the day off work so we decided to kill some time and watch the 11am england game. So we stopped by a casino, because it was the only bar open at 10am, then headed for the ballpark.





Tara works for the Aces so people started joining us for lunch. The game itself was pretty boring, but we had a lot of fun. Pitchers of beer kept coming, and they messed up our brawt order, so we got two extras for free. We couldn't help but laugh when we saw our bill was 16 dollars.





From there we decided to go on a tour of the ball park. We checked out the suites and the seats behind home plate. Then stopped by Tara's office and hung out in the locker room. We were pretty stoked when we found the eye black strips.





From there Matt left and Tara and I went and hung out in the dugout. Certainly a different perspective on the ball field. We hung out drinking a growler that Tara's coworker had brewed. It was a great way to spend the afternoon and pace ourselves for the rest of the night.





We left to go grab dinner when we heard music coming from the bars and remembered the Bare Naked Ladies were playing a small acoustic set at the bar. We dropped in and sat in were sitting about 40 feet from the stage. We only saw a few songs, but it was entertaining to happen in on.





We went downstairs to eat at the new Mexican food place and it didn't quite live up to the hype. But it was pretty nice at the end of the meal when our waiter said our bill had been taken care of. From there we headed back downtown to see the Tour de Nez critirum bike race. It has been years since I've seen a bike race and it was as exciting as I remembered. We got a beer from Jungle Vino and a to-go cup to watch the race.





While we were watching the race we saw two guys we met during the NCAA championship, Kyle and Colby. After the race we met up with them at a Imperial, then went down to the Tap House. Matt came back and rejoined us and we went to the Old Bridge Pub and then over to the St. James Infirmary. By this point it was midnight and time to go to bed.






I never thought when I left my house I'd be gone for so long, but I'm glad I grabbed my camera on the way out.


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Reno Odyssey

The Reno Tahoe Odyssey is a 12 person, 178 mile race that starts in Reno, goes up to Lake Tahoe, down into Carson City, up and out to Virgina City and back down into Reno.




My friends Austin and Kerry put together a team, and I was the 11 leg. We split up into two cars, so we could get breaks between the legs. We spent a lot of time decorating the car, on our first set of legs. Our first section went from Truckee around up to Lake Tahoe. I ran along the river to where it comes out of the lake, which was very pretty.






After that we went to Jill's in South Lake Tahoe and slept for about an hour, before packing up and meeting the other car at the top of Kingsbury Grade. It was neat to see all the people running through town with lights on, and the course was mostly empty except for us. I had a flat night run that felt great. Our section took us from the pass, down through Genoa and out to Carson City.




After Carson, we had to pick up an extra leg because Austin had injured himself. Laura and I split it, but worst was we didn't really get to sleep. After the leg we drove to Virgina City and cat napped in the car. Fortunately the bar, Bucket of Blood, opened special at 5am. I had a delicious bloody mary.





In Virgina City we got to see the Battle Born team go by. It's all elite distance runners from Nevada who are in it to win it. They did the whole thing in under 18 hours. That means they averaged under 6 min. miles for the entire thing. Going downhill, I'm sure they were doing 4.5 min. Unfortunately there are not pictures, because as some one said, it's like a meteor going by.

Our last leg was the longest, hardest and hottest. We picked it up just out of Virgina City and back into Reno. I walked a lot of my segment, but so were a lot of other people. At the end we were glad to be done, took an amazing shower and passed out. I might just be up to do it again next year.

Runnamuck

Mom came out to help with the house and celebrate Mothers Day. She picked a great weekend. We won our softball game, ran the runnamuck and worked on my house. Pictures of the house to come later.

Ski Jumping

It took awhile to get these up here, but I'm catching up.

At the end of the season, Mt. Rose was putting on some games. Matt an I went skiing and to watch the pond skim. For it being april, it was a little chilly, and the water was pretty cold too. The reaction on peoples face when they went in was pretty intense. You could see shock almost instantly set in. Fortunately there were life guards to pull people out.




Matt and I took the time to hit a few jumps and take a few pictures.







The guy with this car was exactly what you'd expect.










A great day for skiing.

Recent Activities

I have been busy recently. But unfortunately don't have good pictures of any of it. I blame the stress of the house (see previous post).

Alex and Casey stopped by to visit for a night 10 days ago. I took them on a tour of Reno. We saw a tournament at the bowling stadium, sad people in casinos, disturbing hula hoopers and other wonderful things of Reno. We came back to my place and had steaks and a long night of telling stories. I have no pictures of any of this, and I regret that, but I fully enjoyed the moment.

I've been skiing more regularly. It started over beers with friends of friends at a bar and now we've been skiing the past four weeks in a row. The season is coming to a close in the next couple of weeks and the conditions are getting gross, but it's been fun. I did get a picture of Matt, Tara and I at Sugarbowl last weekend, since it was probably Tara's last weekend. And Tara took some pictures of Matt and I hitting some jumps.





The Humboldt Boaters had an event in Reno. I led the bar tour on Friday night for Vince and Justin. Then on Saturday morning we went out for breakfast at Pegs Glorified Ham and Eggs. I wish I could eat there every day.



We also had our first softball practice of the year. A group put together by a network of friends where no one knows everyone. The weather was perfect, and it'll be a great way to bring in summer. I hope to have more photos of games during the summer.

I have a feeling it's going to be a good summer!