HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRI!

Happy birthday to the best husband EVER! 27 here we go! Where will we be for 28??? Love you honey! Old pictures of the band in high school I found. !

Whole lotta Pictures

Wow, it's been a month! Woops... Well, we ended up taking a trip to New York, Lindsey finished her insane summer semester, and we went hiking and camping on the drive back down to New Orleans. Lindsey's last semester is about to start and I'm just getting started on my last year.

This was Lindsey's last day of Statistics class. She had a really busy and crazy summer semester, but now it's all done! We left for New York the day after she finished. She also got a 4.0 for the semester, good job babe!

Classroom

Lindz and her class

This is Lindsey and her buddy Mandy, whose heading off to India in a few weeks for a short study abroad trip

Well, we drove up to New York after Lindsey finished and we camped at the halfway point in Virginia...not the best campground but it sure was nice to see stars again.

Here's my whole family! Well, mothers side at least. Everyone hasn't been all together in a long time, it was great to see everyone.

Chillin with the fam.

Also had some time to dust off the old whiffle ball bat with the ol' man.

I crushed this one.

We also played cards a couple of times, which is always really fun. Somehow, my ol' man is really good at the one game we play.

Got to see Brady!, whose now in Japan visiting with Cimino. Can't believe that hammock held...

Me, Lindz, and Caitlin at Sylvan Beach, a small beach and amusement park near our house...not nearly as glorious as it was in my memory, but it was fun.

Beach time!...central NY style. Its pretty crazy there because people just pull their boats right up and blast music...pretty classy

Momma B and the girls went out for pedicures, I just went and chopped down some trees, ate beef jerky, and shopped for steel toe boots

nice feet.

The best pizza in the world from this small place a town over from mine, NY style pizza is the only style!

Went to the local Syracuse brewery for a quick tasting session, really neat place.

Another beach! This one is called Green Lakes and Lindsey and I biked over there from my parents place down the Historic Erie Canal.

This is my favorite spot at Green Lakes, really neat limestone formation.

Here is the canal museum that I use to work at, right on the Erie Canal where Lindsey and I biked down.

The canal path, oh, and Lindsey saw this huge black snack that she also ran over with the bike, I think it might have been a Massasagua (if you are so inclined to google search for an image).

My buddies from college came over for a day and spent the night, Caleb, Nate, and his wife Kelly. Good times playing video games and just goofing around.

My Mom ran a 'duck derby' down at the nursing home and dragged everyone down to help and watch, it was cute, but I didn't win.

My buddies Chris and Cathy from college, Chris was my roomie for two years.

On the drive home we stopped in the Smokey Mountains of North Carolina for two nights. We camped and hiked, it was really nice.

Here is a shot from our 12 mile day hike.

Little sweaty in this one...


We ended up hiking along the Appalachian Trail for a little ways. I thought it would be somewhat busy or a little wider, but it's just a regular old trail.


Lindsey right near the top...


There was a really neat old fire tower located at the top. So, we sat on that and had lunch before we started back down.


Here's the fire tower...or was it a lookout...

Coldest water ever...but it felt so good after the long hike.


So nice.


The most dissapointing part of the whole trip. I think I spent an hour trying to search the woods for wood! There was literally nothing, and it was all wet anyway. So, then we both tried in vain to start a fire...and failed. A scoutmaster stopped by a few minutes later and tore my cub scout patches off my back pack.

July in New Orleans

Happy B-Day Shelley!!!



Whew! It's been awhile. Here are some photos from over the past month, a bit of stuff has happened.


We dog/house sat in Old Metairie, a suburb of New Orleans this past week. It was like staying at a spa! It was the home of one of Lindsey's co-workers and it sure was nice. Here is one of the dogs we were watching, Wesley, and he just stayed in the closet most of the time...poor guy.


We had a big pasta dinner on the patio our last night while the neighbors had a party with a live jazz band, pretty nice.


We went to a training this past weekend to help people evacuate from the city if there is another evacuation. We were even served MRE's for lunch, which are standard army/evacuee dining.

It wasn't too bad having a hot tub and a pool for the week.


I don't know why my shirt is off in every photo...but here's the inside of the house. In the back corner they had a huge big screen TV that was built into a cabinet and mechanically rose out with a remote...best part of the house.

Some day...

This is the other dog that we watched for the week, Wenis... He was a little more lively and pretty funny. We had a good time with him but he was pretty mishieivous.

Our old Peace Corps sitemate Amanda came to visit for a couple days and we took her all over the city. It was a lot of fun to see her, just too bad that it was only for three days! We took her to Jean Laffitte National Park and only saw this one little alligator.


Amanda and Lindsey at the park, and then we rewarded ourselves with some sweet drinks from Sonic.


Here's Lindsey and a bunch of her social work buddies.

Binzer's B-Day and Phish Road Trip

Happy B-Day hon! Most of you probably know by now that Flag Day is known as Binzer Day in most circles. So, this past weekend we did some celebrating for the best wife on this side of the Mississippi. This past week we also drove up to Tennesee to see Phish, one of my favorite bands who I haven't seen in years.

This was at the W Hotel in the French Quarter, where they opened the hotel up to the public for movies on Sundays in the courtyard. We basically went to swim because it's so darn hot! At 8 o'clock at night, it was still 90 degrees. So, we had Lindsey's B-day party at the hotel with some friends, it was a lot of fun.

Woohoo! Free pool! Wish we had one in the backyard, but this sure worked.

There were these outdoor beds and lounge chairs set up as well, pretty nice.

For Lindsey's B-day dinner I picked up some snow crab legs and her favorite vegtable, spicy corn. She was pretty pumped, happy B-day honey.


Our friend Christian made Lindsey a t-shirt for her B-day, her made his own screen printer and is starting to design t-shirts.

This is the Ramada at Ft. Walton Beach Florida where we stayed for one night after our camping trip failed. The beach sure was nice...too bad it was super expensive and we could only afford one night!

Here is the lot scene at venue in Knoxville. It's really fun to see the carnival atmosphere and just walk around to see what the slews of entrepreneurs are up to. We bought a couple t-shirts and also had some great french bread pizza, all courtesy of other fans who are trying to make some money.

The show was a lot of fun, and it was Lindsey's first Phish show!

While we were in Tennessee we ended up driving past Chickamauga, which was one of the first millitary parks in the US. This was one of the biggest loses for the Union army during the Civil War and it was neat to see the canons and fields all preserved.

Tennessee BBQ, this was really good, but Lindsey's belly wasn't too happy later.