Cooler Crew Pictures

Nice boat Zeph :smile:

I'll be happy to pull it round in our new truck if you like :wink:

Did you have to pay extra for the little kids?

naw... they were too little, so I left them on the curb.

 We may have a new truck as soon as tomorrow night.

 The boat didn't want to start right away, as the batteries were dead. The guy who owned it was a real brain-surgeon and bought car batteries for it instead of deep-cycle batteries. No, really. He is a neurosurgeon. So... guess what is on my shopping list. After we jumped it with a Jeep, it started right off, and idled down real quick. Better than I expected for a 1976! I am really impressed for basically buying it sight-unseen (eBay)... It has an electric winch, oar, spare tire, new batteries :chagrin: , a trolling motor mount, a depth finder (old flicker style), 2 covers and a ratty old bimini top. Pretty good, as all I expected was a boat motor and trailer.

Overall happiness rating ... 9!

thats really cool- I would love to watch the fireworks ON the river down by Harriet some year.

That'd be cool... :smile:

Fireworks seen over a lake are the best. I am going to my brothers this year, but maybe next year we can have a boat festival in the middle of a big lake... taking turns firing stuff off...

 :cool:

I plan on looking down at fireworks this year. :confused:

I got some bottle rockets to light off. Found em while caching, heh, couldn't just leave em in the woods for some kid to stumble across, and it'd be a shame to toss em... Tried on the other day, those things shoot up quite a ways before going off.

I don't think your getting into Heaven anytime soon. :eyeroll:

I may not be in Heaven but I plan on being real high. :cool:

:pbpt:

Sounds nice Zeph. Right now we just have my Grandpas Old Jon boat. It works good for our lake but there are plans in the works for something much much better in the next year :smile:

YAY!!

chirp chirp chirp chirp....

So... I'm taking a couple of downtown shots out of my sun roof on my way home looking backwards. I didn't realize that I would capture my first critic on film.

HAHA! :eyeroll: :smile:

Did you have one of those "How's my driving?" stickers on your car?

Ha

I can't tell if he's smiling or not.

Oh, and check out that wax job. :cool:

Thats cool CM lucky he didn't shoot you.

that is classic....

Here's a close up. I don't think he was smiling. :neutral: :eyeroll:

I still laugh when I see that. HA

So I pick up some chow with the fam and get to the bluffs 2 hours early to get a good spot to catch the fireworks on both my camera and camcorder. We were getting crowded all around us because it was such a perfect view. Then they finally started. Everybody moved away from us in a hurry. Here's why:

....They moved the launch site this year!!

 :angry: :frown: :angry: :frown:

All of us who were there way early were pissed but still enjoyed them anyway because after that first pause a bunch of people left thinking it was over and we got to slide over. Still not far enough. :chagrin:

Good show though.

At least that last one didn't have a damn tree in the way. :chagrin: :wink: :smile:

It looked like they lit them off from where they do the New Years fireworks for Rice Park up on top.

It was a fun filled day except for a carload of drunk teens yelling at all of us on the Awada's patio saying we suck and wanted to fight all of us. Sheesh! :eyeroll:

I had a great view from my office on the 16th floor at Wells!

That's cool Bear!

I used to watch them from the top of SPC next door to you. Great view indeed. :cool:

I'm still debating if we should have stayed on top of my building in downtown Mpls to see all the shows and not be stuck looking at a tree instead. :eyeroll:

I never left my house, drove up about 10pm from caching, thought about goign down to catch part of the taste's display, but the neighbor was lighting off a very nice display. Totally illegal, probably really expensive, but hey, I didn't have to fight with traffic, and they were up close and personal :cool:

watched my drunk bro-in-law shot some off....

really cool when one is put in upside down....

geez.... :chagrin:

nice...

serves yah all for not coming to MY house :angry: :frown:

:frown:

we had a house full- lots of food - bonfire and nice company .... started out with a DDR competition :smile:

Harriet Island as we walk in ----packed!

It was over $3.00 for a 20 oz pop.

$5.00 for a corn dog- thank goodness we had corn on the cob and food back up the bluff! WOW!

the only thing cheap enough was the tatoos

$6 bucks!

who's that on your left???

'cuz she looks ....excited...

note the guy in the background --heh

thats Daiquiri (Jackie) ---yah, from poker.

I'll post fireworks later- need to clean them up a bit. Got pics of Becksie and the clowns and some monkey in our palm tree :wink: :neutral: :eek: :sillygrin: --we even threw glowsticks in the firepit--- cool!

thats what I thought....

...hmmm....chumming with her now????

:frown: :eek: :eyeroll: :coolfrown: :frown: :chagrin: :confused: :worried: :worried: :eyeroll:

she needed a friend and someone to give a damn and I stepped up to the plate and invited her over ---just like I invited everyone else over.

theres something to say for lonliness and compassion- don't kick someone when their down...lend them your hand ...and sometimes an ear.

ummm....OK....

huggs for kitch ---alls good

:wink:

I was just wondering...is all....I found it extremely strange....I just didn't expect that....

:cool:

please tell me somebody tried the Deep Fried Smores

I didn't spend a dime down there.