Monday, July 30, 2007

The full moon rises over Atwood Lake.

It is nice to know my child is not the only one that get their legs stuck in something.


Tuesday, July 17, 2007

WSOP Pictures.


Jared is enjoying his free Milwaukee's Best Light!

Ryan Elson is all smiles after winning a pot. That is Gus Hanson in the white shirt.

Humerto Brenes is leaving the poker room after busting out of the Main Event. He was at the feature table when he was eliminated.

Scotty Wynn (not the correct spelling) signs a shirt before the dinner break on Saturday.
These pictures where taking with my camera phone. No flash photography is allowed in the poker room. I was at the WSOP on Saturday July 14.
Vegas trip review:

Friday. I flew to CLT from CAK. I had a nice long layover before my flight to Vegas. I was in first class. I beat Jared to Vegas by about 45 minutes. We got to the Stratosphere, but Jared's host did not make his reservation. It was about 30 minutes before we could get into a room.

Saturday. We both were up early. We did some video poker before we headed to the Sahara for the morning poker tournament. I did really well at video poker. For a short time, I was 4 of a kind guy. I played really well for about 3 hours at the tournament. I called an all-in with pocket aces. The all-in had pocket fours. She hit a four in the flop and I was out.
After lunch we headed out to the Rio and see the World Series of Poker. B's second grade teacher's husband was in the field of 6,000+. He was still playing when we got there. Jared and I wondered around making to the seats by the ESPN feature table and the Milwaukee's Best Lounge. Watching hold'em is nothing like on TV. There is little action most of the time. Even when there is action, ESPN's camera swarm the table so the fans can't see what is going on. When we where there we saw Huck Seed, Scotty Wynn (not the correct spelling), Humberto Brenes and Gus Hanson. Gus was at Ryan Elson's table. Maybe we will be a back round shot or something when ESPN airs the WSOP. Ryan went out in 24th place and earned over $330,000.

Sunday. More video poker. I was planning on heading to the Rio to watch Ryan, but never made it. He busted out today in 24th place. Jared and I went to Marino's for dinner. It is the restaurant in Hooters. They have good food and spirits. I did some wandering around saving my last few dollars for tomorrow.

Monday. We ended up downtown at the Golden Nugget and Binions. My good video poker luck did not follow me downtown. When I made it to the airport, my reservation had been changed. I ended up flying to Denver on Ted(United) then transferring to Frontier to CAK. Kerri met me and I was home by 12:30am this morning.

I did better gambling this time than last year, but being with Jared is always a good time.

Quote of the trip: A group young 20 something get out of a car with really loud music playing, to which I saw " I don't care how loud the music is, you're still driving a KIA."
VEGAS TIME

Jared and I stay here most of our trips to Vegas.

We did spend one night here.

T and I have stayed here twice.


We might stay here with the kids. This is the new pool at the Golden Nugget. There is a fish tank in the middle of the pool. There is a waterslide that goes through the fish tank, which has sharks.

Thursday, July 12, 2007

PICTURE TIME

The front of the new Mogadore Jr/Sr High School.

It was rather windy on the bridge to the waterpark from Geauga Lake.

Rachel Scava enjoys a swing with Kent at her graduation party.

This was the funnel cake deluxe I had for dinner last night.




Monday, July 09, 2007

This is post 100!

We have been camping at Atwood since July 1st. We were only going to stay til Thursday, but we had so much fun, we stayed til today. However, we made more than the planned number of trips home.

We planned on driving home on Thursday, but I took B to Aultman North with water bumps on her hands on July 4. Then T took to ER on the evening of July 5. The bump swelled all her fingers. By Sunday, most of them either "popped" or the swelling went down. Today we saw Dr. Smith and she did not have any new resasons on what could cause the swelling or bumps.

On July 1, Christie and family can down for a picnic. Of course, Kent and Briley found new friends to play with. We made friends with Zoe and Kyle and their mom Bobbie. Then Bobbie's BIL's family came in from WV. They had kids to play with as well. We shared a fire with them last night. It would be nice if the Moores were their, but I like having Tim and Sharon to talk with.

B and I leave tomorrow for our overnight. She got all her clues and is looking forward to going to Geauga Lake on Wednesday.