Blimey Wee Leprechauns

This year for St. Patrick’s Day we were finally able to join in on the Finnegan’s Pub Crawl. The good thing about Finnegan’s is that ALL of their proceeds go towards charitable causes; the bad thing is I don’t really like it. It’s not a light beer, which is what I like, it’s darker and seems heavier to me. I know I’m very picky. But regardless, I downed my fair share of it over the course of the pub crawl. After all, free beer is good beer, right? (Well, if by free I mean free after you paid $40 to get a t-shirt and go on the pub crawl anyway)… Regardless, a great time was had by all. I think you’ll be able to tell by the pictures. Good times with good people. And then the following day I came down with the WORST sickness. I think it was a flu/cold combo. Totally knocked me on my ass for 5 days. I still have a stuffy nose, but at least I’m back up and going. (Unfortunately it now seems like Wade is coming down with it… oops).

Happy late St. Patrick’s day little leprechauns! (I love green people!) Cheerio!

I don't think I could have anything more green on me! I'm such a tool.

Yes, Wade has 4 popped collars. That is b/c he is "4-popped collars cool".

On the bus doing our pub crawl

The cutest little coasters, mine are horney leprechauns, Kara's is virginal. :)

Travis hanging by the bus hand rails brings down drunk Amanda! Too funny! :)

Josh is having such a good time he didn't even stop partying to use the bathroom. :)
Kara's turn to look like a tool.

God help me...

I did it. I registered for the 2008 MS 150 bike ride.

Now please, God, be gentle with me and help me instead of giving me 25+mph head winds and 90+ degree heat like last year... Please...

And for those of you who want to support me and join the fight against MS here is my donations page (I'll be sending out a "fun" mass email later):
http://main.nationalmssociety.org/site/TR/Bike/MNMBikeEvents?pg=personal&fr_id=7100&fr_id=7100&px=4521285

For those of you who do not know, I rode this for the first time ever last year. It is actually over 150 miles, approximately from Duluth to Blaine. I wrote previously about it in an earlier post, so read that if you're interested in details. It was NOT a fun ride for me. But I guess determination and the want to feel like I was contributing to my friends battle won out in the end... Dang it.

Ahhh... Mexico

What more can be said about Mexico other than in the dead of winter it is the greatest place to escape to. We just returned from a 6-day trip to Riviera Maya, Mexico for Brad & Erika’s wedding. One word sums it up: Perfection. Perfect weather, perfect wedding, perfect friends, and all that tallied up to a PERFECT time! Erika was a stunning bride and Brad was a handsome groom. Wade was the best man and I must say he was muy guapo. There is my extent of Spanish for ya’ll.

We mostly relaxed by the ocean, drank lots of tropical slushy drinks, played some water volleyball and enjoyed ourselves.

My new favorite drink is the Miami Vice which is ½ pina colada and ½ strawberry daiquiri. Absolutely delicious! Too bad they are too much of a pain in the ass to make for me to bother w/ now that we are home.
Who bought tickets to the gun show? :)Wade and Brad enjoy their big gay swing time. :)

Kristin I have no clue as to what is going on in this picture, but that is what makes it funny. :)

We also had the opportunity to take an excursion and visited the Mayan ruins of Tulum and went to Xel-Ha which is an ocean inlet that has been turned into a tourist attraction.

Gretchen and I are about to be a snack for that hungry iguana!

We snorkeled, tubed, cliff jumped and just marveled at the beautiful nature. And E ran into a tree. Too funny not to share, although at the time she had a nasty headache. Poor E, those dang trees always jump out at you.

So now the question comes, when can we go back!?!?! (And more importantly, when is spring going to get here? I’m freezing my ass off!)