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TransAmerica

Hi everyone! No, this post is not about the movie starring felicity huffman as a tranny (i never saw it honest). It's about The Great Cross-Country Road Trip starring me, Patrick, and America. Here are just some of the places we went. Overall we crossed 11 states.

Here is the car all packed up- Hertz upgraded us to a Corolla...what what. Patrick making sure that June the bike is secure. Saying goodbye to the old block.


Our first stop was upstate New York. A little out of the way, but we thought it would be a great place to enjoy the fall leaves. This is Watkins Glen. It's by the finger lakes and is a nice hike to all sorts of waterfalls. It's also where they shot some of Last of the Mohicans. Pure beauty.
Is that Daniel Day Lewis behind that waterfall there? Nope, just patrick.

Next we went to Niagara Falls. At night they have a laser light show on the water. Here we are in our slickers for the Maid of the Mist boat tour. Cold, wet and windy= struggling with our picture faces. But it was really awesome and they take you right up to the base of the falls. Once a little boy fell in the river and went over the falls and survived. He was rescued by the Maid of the Mist. Once a woman went over the falls in a barrel with her cat. She survived too.
Then we hit up Kirtland for some church history. We went to the temple and got to sing the Spirit of God inside the chapel where they did the dedication. It was awesome. We also went to old Kirtland to see where the prophet used to live (above the Newell K. Whitney store) and where he received a lot of revelations like the Word of Wisdom.
South Dakota could quite possible be the most random place on earth, but it was highly enjoyable. It takes forever to drive across and is basically just straight corn fields, so they have to make it seem exciting by advertising strange attractions on the highway for hundreds of miles, till you get so excited about it that you have to pull off and see the biggest drugstore in America! Take the Corn Palace for example, which is just a basketball court, but the whole outside of it is decorated with corn husks. Look closely. Now you've seen it- so don't ever go.
What's this? Oh just a giant gorilla playing piano in his hat and boots at a gas station (advertised as an original cowboy town). His name is Singing Sam. He doesn't sing or anything.
South Dakota does however have some wonderful things to offer. I give you Mount Rushmore.
I loved it. It's amazing when you start to think about the guys up there carving the faces in the early 1900s, basically dangling by a rope. And they came out looking so accurate.

There's Crazy Horse in the distance. You can see his arm pointing out. He's not done yet, and they've been working on him for over 60 years.
And plenty of buffalo to spare. They get so close you can reach out and touch them, but that's probably not a good idea. We ended our trip with a couple of days in Yellowstone, but sadly all of those pictures are on Patrick's camera so that will have to be another post. All in all it was a great trip and we didn't have any problems. Anyone wanna drive across the South?

Beau Update

Hey Everyone,

Here are some recent pics. I'm just finishing up the yoga program and loving all the body therapies that I'm still enrolled in. Been doing a lot of Zen Shiatsu treatments. Just at the end of that program and then starting up the Release Point program next week. Release Points a combination of Shiatsu like thumb and palm pressure, skin and fascia rolling and some mild stretches. This really helps open up the healing channels in the body, the person is also super relaxed due to some cool head and nerve holds we do. You can also use your insurance and so we'll be working hospitals and doctors.

Me and Astara as a Greek God and Goddess. She made everything from sheets and stuff from Savers, even the hair leaves and jewerly. Luckily I had purchased a sweet mullit a week earlier that just happened to work out perfect.
Our pumpkins, Astara's three eyed monster and mine
Just being goofy
We did some partner yoga the other day, it was pretty much chaos but a good time. Everyone's expressions in the background are the best part :)

The Caterpillar
Me and Astara
Astara in a cool pose.
Different angle

Me trying to hold up our teacher.
Me holding up someone a little bit lighter :)
Astara and Danielle blowing each other kiss, pretty talented!!

Happy Halloween

For Halloween Axel was a Laker. This costume worked well because it also doubles as a Florida Retiree. Here are some pics. 

He was a Laker, and his cousin max was an Angel.

He got fouled going up for a rebound.
He likes to sit on pumpkins.

He was also a sailor for part of the day.

Ahoy!

A few more pics

Here are a few more pics so you can see Axel's first haircut. He looks cute, but we want it to grow back. Here he is in the bathtub with his cousin max. The water was deeper, but Max's thighs displaced all the water.

Here he is playing the piano.
Here he is with his Hawaii cousins at the Apple Trail last weekend.
Here he is picking out his first pumpkin.
And here he is on his new favorite toy. I can't wait until he figures out how to use it so we can fire our gardener. 

The Latest

Here are some pics from the last couple weeks. Mom and dad came down one week for Alison's wedding, and then made the drive again the next weekend for Sharon's funeral. The morning after the funeral, in memory of Sharon, we (Me, Shalaine, Shalaine's brothers and sister and spouses, and mom and dad) did Sharon's favorite hike - the bump and grind. As you can see, mom was having a tough time but we made it to the top and all struck a Sharon pose. We did the hike much later in the day, (around 9am). She would do it at 4:30am and get up to the top in time to see the sunrise. 

Dad and I took Axel on a little ride on our beach cruisers around the golf course behind our house. Perfect weather and ride, except Axel didn't like riding through the sprinklers.

This is the aceman all dressed up for the wedding. 

I'm too sexy for my shirt...

Turns out Axel is quite the exhibitionist. The last few times we've gone to get him in the morning or after his naps, this is what we've found...