eye-rland

this place was the sweetest cafe i’ve ever seen.

ok, this one’s preeeetty good…

oh o’neill’s!  i shall never forget thine buttery guiness!

it was a VERY windy day as we drove around ireland.

soooo zen.

we cracked up when ryan bought this.  yes, it is a bear-giraffe.

fun!

london baby! home of the the eye.

one tourist thing that i totally recommend checking out is the tower of london.  terribly impressive!

this is paul sebastian.  we ran into him coming up from the tube.  the beauty and heart of his music are beyond words.  we watched him play for about a half hour before making our way to the next stop.

and he didn’t appreciate me taking pictures of him.

hello oxford!

one last note… for three days we carted around eight people and their luggage in a car designed for 5.  

well for now, that’s pretty much it.  we had a great time, thanks for tuning in!

stay close, stay alive!

nellie and i decided to grab some fondue when a drumline paraded it’s way down the street. “why” you might ask… well, because it’s sunday ( of course. )

so, the euro cup ‘08 is kinda a big deal. such a big deal that when we got to the zurich train station we were greeted by a massive replica of a team huddle…

just how big you ask…

this pictures needs no explanation but that are now in france.

my beautiful bride…

our fearless leader

that ryan’s sooooo hot right now…

notre dame’s buttress is better than your buttress

stop drinking guinness from a can. buy it in ireland. ;)

we spent a lo of time on the train today and seeing “sights” i’d rather look at the wikipedia picture of but here are a few of us enjoying swiss transit.

ryan and i began a little wager regarding the hit single he is going to right by next year.  he’s not at all discouraged by the fact that he hasn’t seriously played an instrument since he was 12.  this is him writing a terminologically accurate song about child birth, i wouldn’t be surprised if this turned out to be “that” song ;)  ( tangent : check out flowbots if you haven’t. )

HURRAY???

either something got lost in translation or this is a refreshingly honest lotto advert.

lot’s of the love-birds…

seriously - come to switzerland.  it’s amazing!

funny story, we had quite a few celebrity run ins.  not a-list celebrity sightings but c-listers, you know the kind you can barely recognize hiding behind a wall of ashtrays and european beers — much more fun.

remember the “INCONTHEVABLE” sicilian pirate in the 80’s classic “the princes bride?”  yah, stood by him in line.  how bout Job from the cult classic “arrested development?”  yah, ’bout near took his foot off with my luggage.  and to top it all off, our plain was delayed on the runway for 45 minutes while air force one made a “secure” take-off from heathrow airport.  read into that what you will…

with all the advancements they are making in compost processing, along with the sharp decline of the us dollar, i wouldn’t be surprised if pure cow feces made a run on the dollar soon.

like picking a favorite child… but harder.

breakfast. can you spot the nutella?

poor kid…

in other news, i’ve tried posting “europe : two” 3 times now and have developed an increasing hated toward wordpress. i’ll keep you posted.

killer shop.  this is beer soap!

this coffe shop rocked my world and the mead kicked my but

as i mentioned in the ( yet to be seen ) post before, we ended up coming at a very unique time.  the euro 2008, european soccer cup is in full swing.  we got to watch a game in old town prague with about 300 screaming russians.  RU-SSI-A, RU-SSI-A!!!

airport fun…

oh the swiss and they’re dramatic irony.

and i thought we had it bad ( btw… swiss francs are just about 1 to 1 one the declining dollar )

this is our new backyard.

’till next time…

we’re in the throws of packing for europe and, after two weeks wheezing our way out of the “ignorance bomb” that seems to have blown up around us, the trip can’t come soon enough. of course, i’m sure that europe will deliver a fair share of nescient delights.

in other news… no laptop. which means no pictures — making this a text-only blog until further notice.  maybe i’ll take my thesaurus along to spice things up… then again, maybe not.

till then… stay alive.

i digress… i’ve been under a mountain of paperwork and decided to trip back through time.

a couple weeks back nellie and i got to spend a few days in vegas with of few of our closest friends… here’s the frames.

breakfast…

and lunch…

on our way up, we were trying to determine if this was a poor coincidence or a prophetic warning.

little stretch break portrait session. here’s one that nellie got of me.

and one i got of my hotness.

mmm… this image is sooo right, i can’t describe it with words!

in an attempt to stretch every penny as far as we could, we spent a good portion of time prowling for $5 blackjack. i try to stick away from “posey-posey” pics like this, but john looked so dirty, i could barely resist.

yah, we hit vegas hard…

we had a great trip, and i’d drop anything to go again. can’t wait ’till next year ;)

a couple months back, my family picked up a maltese-poodle mix and i have to say that he’s one of the cutest dogs i’ve ever seen. and while they teach him how to sit, lie-down, and roll-over, i’ve enjoyed the higher calling addressing values of fight, bite, and how to still feel like a man after the snippety-snip.

in any case, his name is P.J. Barely and he’s somethin’ else ;)