ITALY FUTBOL: EURO CUP 2008

I HATE PENALTY KICKS!!

GUATEMALA VIDEOS!!

Here I am taking off to paraglide over Lake Atitlan. As you can see its pretty hard running while pulling a huge parachute behind you and your instructor strapped to your back!



And this is what it looked like from my view. This particular video is of Cory taking off.



Here's Cory and I playing soccer with the kids.

GUATEMALA PICS UPDATED

So here's some pics I promised to post of my trip to Guatemala up above. I'll post more as soon as I download the rest though so keep checking.

Its amazing how much we got to see and experience in just 11 days there all thanks to Jake the Snakes exausting yet absolutely fulfilling tour guiding. We experienced and learned so much especially about the wide spread poverty Guatemala experiences. Yet I've never met such kind and genuinely happy people who make you realize how petty and small our problems here really are.

From paragliding off a cliff over looking lake Atitlan, visiting and spending the night in a remote village without electricity, seeing the ancient Mayan ruins of Tikal, flipping on my head while mountain biking, having one of the most interesting conversations with an Israeli, a South African, and a dutchmen, to getting sick to my bones in Semuc Champey, this was definitely the most eye opening and fullfilling trip I've had by far.

Anyways, so much to tell which would be impossible on here. Hopefully I'll be able to speak to whomever is reading this in person someday.

NICKELDOPOLOUS' BABY SHOWER

Went camping and fishing this weekend in the San Juan's for my greek exchange student Nickel's "baby shower." Actually turned out to be good weather compared to the Seattle area which was nice. It's amazing how much you will dick around when you have all guys filled with beer in the middle of nowhere and what games (not gay games) you'll come up with. We actually spent about a couple of hours competing in punting skills while making elaborate rules along with beer to make it much more entertaining. I don't think the other campers were too happy with us. And by the way, we're all horrible at punting especially after a few beers in us. Not that we're any good when we're sober.

But the highlight of the whole weekend was definitely Fartin Martin jumping into the 46 degree water at night in just his skibbies because of a bet made to him. I don't think he could feel his limbs for about 30 minutes afterwards. Who knew such a big WNBA fan would have such kahuna's to pull that off?

A close second was the boat ride back to Anacortes. It got pretty choppy in the straight and Fartin Martin was definitely in the wrong seat because he got about 200 gallons of water splashed on him for 45 mins straight while Nickel was laughing like a little school girl at the sight of it the entire time.

Good times.

EURO CUP 2008!!

Thinking about this summer's Euro Cup I found this old video that my Uncle made from pics and video shots he took after Italy won the 2006 World Cup where we watched most of the games in the Italian neighborhood of Vancouver on Commercial Drive. The opening shot is at an Italian Cafe just as they won and then the celebration that spilled out onto the streets. All traffic was stopped because of it but people more or less understood that this was a big moment. I changed the second video to the highlights of the Italy vs. Germany game which I thought was the most exciting by far. The first goal especially is beautiful. 2 more years until the next World Cup, can't wait. But I'll definitely be up there a lot this summer for the Euro Cup when Italy is playing.

Gumbo Shrimp, Cocktail Shrimp, Fried Shrimp, Ebi Sushi.....

Went Shrimping on saturday with a couple of buddies out in the Sound. Caught 54 Shrimp in all but that isn't that much between 3 hungry guys. The weather sucked all day but it was still fun and I look forward to stripping the sea of its bounty again. Here's a picture of the shrimp we caught.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOJO!! I BOUGHT YOU 3 INTENSIVE WEEKS WORTH OF ROMANIAN BREAD MAKING CLASSES!! NOW YOU CAN FINALLY FOLLOW YOUR DREAM!! ONLY THE BEST FOR YOU BUDDY!