Back to the 50's Car Show

just got back from the car show down at riverside park here in GP, had a great father/son afternoon. loads of amazing cars! too hot though to spend much time admiring. still boiling hot in the afternoons near 100!!!
heres a link to some shots of my favorite cars there (LINK)

Cool Map feature on Flickr

so i have been playing around with flickr... you can link pictures to a map so you can see where they were taken...although a little time consuming i think its pretty cool...
check out the panoramics i took in New Zealand (LINK), each dot tell you how many pics at that site and if you click you can see a small preview, click in the bottom corner to open that photo page and from there click all sizes in the top left of pic and from there you can see the original... kind of long but worth it... my fav is this 360 degree shot from a top mt. iron over looking lake wanaka on the south island. (LINK) your browser might try to fit it to screen so you might need to zoom to get the full pic

oops forgot something

before heading up to portland i spent the night at my sisters in corvallis. went down to fox and firkin for a pint, one of my favorite pubs back in college. they were filming "extreme makeover home edition" in town but by the time i got to town in to was too dark. but was able to check it out in the morning. no ty sightings....katie went back later for the reveal, "MOVE THAT BUS!!" and saw ty.
a couple pics of the house (LINK)

Portland Here i come!!! (wink wink)

the weekend after the wedding i took a quick weekend trip up to portland to "talk" to a old friend from sonoma that now works at a winery in dundee. its not really a winery, its a wine company, basically clients source the grapes and arrange everything and the facility makes the wine, also called custom crush, producing about 40,000 cases a year about 8 times that of Edenvale Winery where i'm currently working and about equal to that of Valley of the Moon Winery were i was working in Sonoma California. it was exciting to be in a large winery again, and this place was high tech too, latest gadgets and tools, crossflow filtration, micro-ox, open-tops with lids ;), pulsair, and they are expanding, looked like they might be doubling in size. the coolest part was the fermentation cellar with a couple hundred open-top, jacketed, stainless steel small batch fermenters all in perfect rows, can't imagine how much that cost...each has to be at least a few thousand?
After my "visit", got a bottle of Erath '06 Pinot Noir that they were bottling when i got there...a fine vino!, went down to McMinnville for a burger at a great brew pub and headed up to portland to see if i could run into some old college roommates. Of course everyone was busy in the afternoon so i headed into town to see what i could find, randomly ended up in the pearl district, one of my favorite parts, and had a pint at the rogue ale house! later met up with matt and his girlfriend, had a burrito for dinner (best in a while) then later headed to this little french patisserie (bakery) for Bastille day, a french revolution day where they blow up the prison in paris long ago. later dan showed up and then ryan and in all of our surpise henry!!! it was great all 5 of the roommates all together!!! first time in about 4 years. had a few drink, listened to some weird bands, there was a raffle and matt won like half of the stuff, i won a wine tasting class but traded it for a bottle of pear champagne but left it there on accident. i miss those guys, i hope sometime soon i can hang out with them. ;)
heres a couple pics (LINK)

Seattle Beerfest 2007!!!!

Had a really good time up in Seattle the weekend before the wedding spending some time with my BFF Megan and her life partner Dan. took a ferry across the way from bremerton to seattle and walked to the space needle (should have took the tram or bus, too far for how hot it was, had to take a drink break, got washington apple shot thing, oh it burned, and i think the place we went into was a gay bar?)
cool fest, at the gate you get a cup and 10 coupons, beers averaged 3 coupons a taste...some more some less. also great live music, vendors, we got some cigars and a full sized beer. a fun day. and oh yea i saw an iphone!!! they just came out the day before.
flickr pics here (LINK)

The Sniffen / Jordan Wedding

First major thing that happened after i arrived home was my cousin Neil got married! it was a very exciting time. Lots of family and lots of new family. and a cool date 07-07-07...easy to remember too!
i posted about a bazillon picture on flickr (LINK)
theres pics of
- the prewedding raft trip, so many orange torpedoes, a visit by a helicopter with water bucket to put out a nearby wild fire, wild life, testing the underwater capability of my camera and of course lots of sun burns (Brian!)
-the prewedding Luau, featuring the beer trailer (3 kegs on tap to feed the masses), leis, speaches by the parents, drinking and a good ol' time!! (also the first pictures taken with my new pentax k100d dSLR camera)
- the wedding!! the reception, family pics, dancing, 1st dance, mother of the groom dance, father of the bride dance, the bouquet toss (actually she gave it to claire since she and brian (neil's brother) are up next, a jordan tradition) , drinking, cigar-ing and lots of fun
- the day after, relaxing in the shade and of course present time!!!! and panning for gold with morgan (katies Boyfriend)

i'm soo sooooo sooooo Sorry for not posting

ok so i have no excuse. so let me post a few to catch you all up on my life... i know all the world is waiting to hear about Thomas!!!