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The Golden Dirty Thirty (Saturday May8th)

Posted on 04. May, 2010 by Derrick.

This party is to celebrate Derrick’s and Annika’s golden birthdays. Derrick will be 30 on the 30th and Annika will be 27 on the 27th.

The party is “Dress like a catholic school girl”. It is not mandatory, but your hosts Floyd, Derrick, and Will will be dressed up in skirts. Please dress up, because if you don’t, you’ll make us look like idiots.

As always, the party is at our house aka “the man cave”. If you have never been to my house, you can RSVP on our Facebook events page or just comment at the bottom of the page and I’ll email you our address (make sure to fill in your email when you do comment)

We will have several good beers on tap. Since Sierra Nevada is turning 30 this year, and so am I, we are going with a beer theme. Sierra Nevada Summerfest, and Sierra Nevada’s “Old ale”. Old ale is so rare that only 35 people have reviewed it on Ratebeer.com and beeradvocate.com (Don’t ask me how I got it, cause if I told you, I’d have to kill you). I’ll even get a 1/4 barrel of Coors light to satisfy the non craft beer idiots (I mean that in the nicest way)

Summerfest is a delightfully refreshing example of a traditional style lager beer. While lighter in body than our ales, Summerfest displays significant hop aroma and a tangy hop bite. The long lagering period adds a smoothness that makes this beer a great summertime treat.

Old Ale is a blend of Imperial Stout aged eleven-months in oak bourbon barrels, and our malty Scotch Ale. This black beer has an intense aroma of roasted malt with pronounced vanilla and toasted coconut notes from wood aging. The flavor is smooth and bittersweet, with hints of caramel, toffee, and mocha. This full-bodied beer is filled with deep, rich and warming flavors.

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Wednesday night mayhem.

Posted on 13. Aug, 2009 by Derrick.

In what has become our weekly ritual, Hyon, Floyd and I rode to the top of lookout mountain and as usual we timed ourselves.

The more I do this ride the more fun I have doing it.

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German Baseball

Posted on 09. Jul, 2009 by Derrick.

My Mom doesn’t know squat about baseball. Only that we all like going to games. So she took us all out to a Rockies game. Beautiful mid summer night with good company.

I was starving and we ended up with super cheap hotdogs…. $1!

We finally brought the gloves with us, The black one is from my little league days. It fits summer perfect. The other one is my Fathers from when he was a teenager. Together they are about 60 years old. That’s some old leather.

Thanks mom! She was  a trooper. With two artificial hips, my mom sat in the bleachers at Coors field all the way through the 9th inning. I could tell she wanted to leave sometime in the 6th, but she didn’t say a thing about wanting to leave.

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Do we get wetsuits?

Posted on 28. Jun, 2009 by Derrick.

A couple of weeks ago my little sister called me and asked simply “do you want to go white water rafting down clear creek”. She should have just stopped at “do you” cause I’m always down for anything. Summer on the other hand took a couple of days of convincing to get her to agree to go.

We woke up and fittle farted around this morning. Finally getting in gear at about 9:15. We needed to be out of the house at 9:30 and up to our destination by 10:30. Hustling along and right before we head out the front door, my underwater housing for my camera broke. I was furious because the sumbitch cost $250. Going out the front door I glanced at my watch and it was 9:40. No biggie, Mile Hi Rafting’s web site said it would only take 30 minutes to cruse up the mountain. I should know better, I’ve made this same drive up 1-70 hundreds of times. As we were about to hit the highway, I swung into McD’s for some breakfast. It took 10 minutes in the drive thru. Summer said as we were heading out of the drive thru “Can we stop at the gas station to get energy drinks” I thought, no prob. I took a wrong turn and found myself in old town Arvada (which by the way is super cool), 15 minutes of taking one way streets to find my way back to Wadsworth and get to the gas station. I pulled in to the gas station and Summer made her way in, 5 minutes later. Apparently some chick was making a ruckus in the conoco. At this time it was 10:20 and we hadn’t even started driving up the mountain!

We eventually got there after my best impression of Mario Andreti in my 4 banger Honda. 10:55 am! whoooo. Then we waited till  12 to get started! After about another 30 minute tutorial the guide Keith ask who wants to sit in the two “splash” spots. Or other words sit in the front. Back in the day, my mother used to have to regulate Annika and I on who sat in the front of the car. This time both of us got to sit in the front.

Summer forgot that she wasn’t supposed to take her hand of the “T” on her paddle, but at least during the trip we all kinda forgot to do one thing or another. At one point our guide asked us if we would rather do it on our own since we weren’t listening to him. Ooops.

Our first Class IV on Nomad. By this time Annika and I were suffeciently splashed.

Our next class IV was called Phoenix…. Notice my dedication to paddling, 40 degree water or not!

SPLASH!

Our Final class IV rapids was called Outer Limits. I’ve compiled a photo sequence that is really fun to look at. click on the picture and view it in the full size and watch all of our faces.

But my two favorite are these, Notice the dunking, then the face afterwards.

We had a good day. I can say that the “Splash spot” isn’t all that its cracked up to be. And if you ever go rafting with Annika, you have to remind her to not have so much fun. Her laughing so loud makes it so you can’t hear your guide. Todays also happened to be the boys day, in that only the boys went into the drink. I made it about halfway in (head only). Kit went full monty and decided that a quick swim would do. His face turned white when his nether regions hit melted snow water. I couldn’t let another man suffer, so I promptly pulled him out.

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Gregory Canyon Trail

Posted on 27. Jun, 2009 by Derrick.

A while ago, Annika and I tried Gregory Canyon Trail. At the time I had just move to Colorado and was out of shape from the horrendous Arizona summer. In our brilliance we ate lunch right before we started to hike, and we both almost threw up.

Not letting the mountain get me down. I decided to tackle the trail again. Summer and I found a easy way to get over there without paying for their parking. We simply parked at Chautauqua and walked about a mile up baseline trail.

It was a warm day and luckily found a couple spots to get the dog wet at.

Once we got to the top we broke out the hammock and chilled for a couple of hours. Though Summer was making it difficult to read my book. She likes to talk (annoy) to me.

I finally got summer and Guinness to occupy themselves

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Father's Day

Posted on 21. Jun, 2009 by Derrick.

This is my first fathers day since my Dad died, so instead of bummin around the house we all went to a ball game. Oddly enough, days like today aren’t the tough ones. I’m able to hang out with lots of cool people and my little sister.

We went to another rockies game. I’m still a D-backs fan, but I was cought with a rockies hat on today(they were free). It was a beautifull day in the 80′s with typical colorado thunderheads floating around.

There were over 200 pictures taken, and I took the top 35 and put them into a photo montoge.

We started our day out by accidentally going to the wrong “food” station and instead of cashing in on our “free” hotdog we got the larger hotdog and coke (for a little more than free)

The Rockies were totally winning, and it was a great game to watch.

We didn’t do that much watching as much as we did socializing with Kits Fam. Thanks Kits fam for taking in these homeless D-backs fans!

We spent a good portion of our day guessing what was on this guys shirt. Someone had asked him to tape over the offensive part. I think it was fuzzy bunny!

The legend is, if you have a lady bug land on you, its good luck. However! I think you are cheating if you have a decoy tattooed to you. Like going duck hunting with decoys in the water.

It was a good relaxing day!

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