Monday July 11th, 2016. Woo Hoo! We made it! Rachel and I celebrated our one Month of Marriage by eating tacos, sipping PBRs, and watching the movie Dead Pool. This is how you Anniversary people! Plus we heard this is the hardest month of marriage, so it is only up from here!
July 12, a Tuesday involved me working late, hung out at my parents and caught some pokemon while playing the new app Pokemon Go. So far I am not that good since I don't leave the place I am playing at. Basically only catching Ratatas and Pigeys.
On Wednesday July 13, I had 6am practice with the cats. Not a bad showing as 16 guys showed up for our first practice of summer. Reminds me of my college days waking up and going to 6am practices. Not fun until you get going, work hard, and then realize you have the whole day ahead of you. Good group.
That evening at home we were blessed with a double rainbow that was going right into the skyline, pretty neat.
I became lazy on Thursday July 14, caught more pokemon, and slept at my parents again with lax camp going on in the mornings this week. Nothing too crazy.
Friday July 15th was a sad day for our family as we celebrated the life of Auntie Lottie. It was a beautiful day out and the service was absolutely perfect, with family leading the readings and prayers. It was great to see so much family and to celebrate such an amazing woman! We will miss you dearly and love you always Auntie Lottie!
Here is a photo of her, my great grandma, and Auntie Wanda from 1994 at the Trailer. 22 years ago! Wow how time flies!
That evening John and Melissa came by Rachel and I's apartment and we had some chicken for dinner before walking over to the Tallest Man on Earth Show at the VIC Theatre. Before entering the theatre, we had to split into gender separated lines for a pat down, woah this is getting serious! It was our first time at the Theatre and Lady Lamb was opening up for TTMOE once again as she had last summer when we saw Tallest Man twice! She played a few new songs, which were enjoyable, and we stood near the back on the first level. It was surprisingly packed right when we got there just as Lady Lamb was starting up. In between sets, Rachel headed out to see if we can somehow get into this side balcony seating that we can see is empty, but looks sweet. I am super glad she did because she found the seats of the night. Even though we couldn't get to the side balcony seating, there was an entire balcony on the 2nd level with seats and we were able to enjoy the show sitting down, a little off to the right of stage center, but second row of the balcony. Thanks Rach for finding those perfect seats! The show was amazing, I was able to record the audio and get some decent video of my favorite song Where Do My Bluebird Fly... See above if you aren't already playing it. Once my editing program stops sucking (click to find out more about how it sucks), I will release the audio from this show as well as those great Deer Tick shows I attended back in April. Dumb computer. Gummies were in full effect for the walk home, making it quite enjoyable. We hit the hay once we got back and John and Melissa slept over, all of us having early mornings the next day.
The morning of July 16th, Rachel and I headed out to New Lenox to meet up with Beth, and then headed out to Michigan. After a quick little drive, we set up in the Trailer and started to blow up our new best friend, Francine the Floatmingo. My boy Nolan biked 150 miles from Lansing and met us there after 8 hours of riding. He literally left at 4am to get there at Noon. What a boss. Once Nolan is there we pack some sandwiches and head down to the beach. Cam drove up too and met us at the beach. There is almost no actual beach, but the water is great. It was calm and warm, so we took Francine out for many rides. She really was the hit of the beach, as everyone who wasn't us, was mad jealous of our float. Nice work Rachie! After spending some hours at the beach, we headed back up for dinner. Rachel and Beth put together chicken foil packets and I threw them on the grill. After eating a delicious dinner, we got a bonfire going and enjoyed staying warm around it all night while eating s'mores and drinkings brews. Fun night with great friends!
When we woke up on Sunday July 17, the log that we were burning from the night before, which was literally a tree stump that was at least 15 inches wide, was still going strong. I used the chimney to start the grill and grilled burgers for lunch while everyone watched step bros. Such a great movie. Nolan and I watched it in college probably at least 50 times. Cracks me up. After eating a scrumptious lunch of tasty burgers grilled by yours truly, we headed back down to the beach, but it was super windy, resulting in huge waves, so we couldn't take Francine out. Although Nolan did jump on her immediately and was pushed literally 150 yards down the shore. After a couple of hours, I took Nolan and Cam back to the trailer to say goodbye, Cam was giving Nolan a ride back luckily, then headed back to the beach for a little with Beth and Rach. Did I mention there was almost no beach again this year? Check it out below. Not much to work with but we made the most of it. Finally we headed out and drove back to Rach's parents to get Beth to her car. After Beth left, we stuck around to hang out with our "Favorite Couple Friends," Mom and Dad, and had some pizza with them for dinner. We were pretty tired and went to sleep right when we got back to the city.
What a weekend!
Video of the Week: Melissa put together this amazing video from our Wedding! Cannot believe it has already been a month of marriage! I Love It! Thank you Melissa! This is so awesome! Wish I could go back to the best day of my life (link coming soon..)
Let us not forget another video of Beth dancing to JT! Glorious!
Until Next time,
Josh
