SKIPAPALOOZA 3

My wife and I went to Skipapalooza 3 on Saturday night.
I work with a guy who is one talented dude and although I know him by another name, all his friends call him Skip.

Skip plays the Bass guitar and apparently has quite a few very musically inclined friends.

Skip is also in a band called the MTN Dukes.
And man, can they rock.

Here is lead singer, Luke and his dad, who sat in for one number.

"Luke, I AM your father!"

It was also Skip's birthday.

Which was the reason for Skipapalooza 3
By all accounts, a rocking good time.

Green Day at the ACC

We went to see Green Day at the ACC last Thursday night.

The show was originally scheduled for January, to promote the release of their 3 new albums but was delayed until April so that lead singer Billy Joe Armstrong could get his shit together in rehab. Thankfully, it was well worth the wait.

I'm not really sure what the deal was with the 3 album release, but it would of made one good album. Thankfully they waded through the crap and only played a selection of the better stuff off the new albums, while mixing in a lot of their old crowd favorites.

This was the third time that I have seen Green Day and the other two shows before this, were better.

That being said, Green Day puts on one of the best live shows that I have ever seen and they remain in my top 5 concerts of all time. 

Great show.  

Ready For My Close Up

Straight from the groomers, all ready for spring.

 

Now all we have to do is get the weather to cooperate.

First Day of Spring

Skiing at Blue

Ski day at Blue Mountain.

As you can see, conditions were perfect.

The bra tree.

A break for lunch. 

First patio of the season!

Cheers!

Frostbitten

On the insistance of my friend Tony and against my better judgnment, I entered The Frostbite Mountiain Bike Race in Port Coulburn this past weekend.
"Come on dude, it's only a 10km loop and there's chili at the end!"
How could I refuse an offer like that?

So we bought some studded tires for our bikes, got dressed up for the -10 degree weather and went for a mountain bike ride along the Welland Canal in Febuary.
File this under, what the hell was I thinking?!?

Here's what it looked like from my persepective.



Out of the 100 people that entered, I had the honour of finishing dead last.
I'm getting too old for this shit...

Vacation Mashup