Southwick Zoo

Sunday we went to Southwick Zoo with Nik, Ana and Sofia. It was a beautiful day to go to the zoo. Never heard of the Southwick Zoo before that day, but it's a pretty cool zoo. Lots of cool animals, rides for the kiddies and yummy fried food.

Sofia was a little scared at first, but she touched a giant Aldabra turtle! Sand in her shoes had some getting used to, but she had a great time. She was out like a lite when we got back in the car.

Mel's Birthday

So another year and another year older. 33 to be exact. So far so good. They say the 40's are the new 30's so the 30's have to be the new 20's! right, just agree with me! ;)

Had an excellent birthday. Mother nature gave me a beautiful day, my family and friends remembered to send me best wishes and I got to eat cake! 2 to be exact. 1 was chocolate espresso and the other strawberry mouse. Both were yummy.

My bros, Molly and Jim came over the help Baha and I celebrate. We had fancy pizza and drank 3 bottles of wine and a bottle of champagne! Good times!

The birthday festivities lasted through the weekend! Friday I treated myself to a day off from work, Sat I went strawberry picking in the am and to a club downtown, Rumor at night. We had an excellent time at the club, I partied like a 26 yr old instead of a 33 year old and felt like it the next day, but it was worth it!

Kirsten & Graham's Wedding York, PA

Kirsten Baumgartner & Graham Stetler, became Mr. & Mrs Stetler on Sat June 2nd 2007.Baha and I drove to York, PA to share in their special day.

This is a 7 hours drive with no traffic. Baha was awesome and did most of the driving. In fact he drove all the way down and most of the way back.

We rented a Mazda 3 from Zipcar for this road trip, thinking they pay for the gad and there is no mileage limit. At $72 a day for the car and gas prices they way they are, we thought excellent idea! Things that sounds to good to be true usually are, come to find out, there is a mileage limit, 125 miles a day and we went over the limit by more than 700 miles! Zipcar said ChaChing! WE said !@#@$%##$%$#%@#!@#! You know what they say, live and learn, this one was an expense lesson to learn. Sigh, now we know.

But other than that, the road trip and wedding were fun!Actually the wedding was beautiful. It took place in Graham's family home in York, in the back yard and the weather took pitty on them and didn't rain! I imagine Graham swinging on this swing as a little boy in this back yard and now he is getting married in it.

Eric and Gail also made the trip down to the wedding from NH.Here are some photos from the wedding. The ceremony wasn't too long or religious, though it was very steamy out and we were all swimming in our own sweat. The food was excellent, music good, people nice, cake awesome and their was an open bar, what else needs to be said.

Ah Yes, Kirsten was Beautiful!

I love that Graham's dad wore sandals with his suit. Why not, his son's wedding, his house, he can do what he wants!

Kirsten's mom and close family friend.

Now on the trip home, being daylight, I decided to take some photos from the car. This is some of the things you will see between New Cumberland, PA and Boston, MA:
Farms, what a surprise, scary old, empty, Bates type motels.

And towers, lots of them and all kinds.












These must be a couple of the cars from the car show that was in York, PA also that weekend and why Kirsten had to arrange for hotels for wedding guest in New Cumberland instead of York, because the hotels were already books for the car show. Worked out for the guest though, because they provided a charter bus for the guest to and from the wedding because they were far way, with and open bar this is very good. I know Baha was piss drunk! ;)