Monday, July 6, 2009

Renaissance Festival - Sep 2008
















Some friends of ours, Charles & Stephanie were in the cities last Fall (they live in Washington state so we only see them about once a year). Here are some fun pictures Charles just sent within the last week or two. Stephanie grew up in Brazil so we took them to a Brazilian churrascaria steakhouse called Fogo de Chao and afterwards went to a dueling piano bar called the Shout House. The following day, we suggested they go to the Renaissance Festival and they invited us along so we hung out at the festival for the day. It was a really fun visit. Charles was on a 4 day pass from Ft. McCoy, WI where he was getting ready to ship out to Iraq and Stephanie had flown in to see him before he left. I believe Charles' deployment is over either this month or next.

Epoxy Paint


Kevin put Dad to work over this past 4th of July weekend helping to paint the garage floor using an epoxy paint kit. Half of the garage is done and the other half is prepped and just needs to be painted. Kevin & I will finish the project at some point this week. The finished floor looks great - not sure the photo here does it justice.













4th of July






















Here are some photos from the 4th of July. We headed over to Eva's house (my sister) and spent the day with family. Everyone participated in some of the following activities: badminton, polish horseshoes, cards (pinochle). In the evening we went to the Edina fireworks show.