"Update"

Well you read most of what is happening on Emily's blog, by the way, I am not that bad, I do ask a lot of questions but I am getting back into parenthood but now that is brought to my attention I am not asking questions anymore and I did get the bottle ready for the misters and put him to sleep but I am not here to complain or vent about my better half because who wants to read that. I am really happy with how the house is turning out. I really like the basement and the set up and everything else. It is a lot of fun going to pick things out for the house and it is very nice not having peoples houses attached to ours so we don't here them and we don't have to worry about them hearing us so we can crank the sub woofer up on the surround sound a little more and stuff like that plus no damn dogs barking up a storm from horrible owners not shutting them up. I love it. My trip home went really well, it was a little long but worth the free admission to everything. The boat ride was great, the scenery was amazing. The second boat ride from Juneau to Bellingham was awesome because for the first time I saw dolphins. I was ridding in the forward lounge listening to my ipod when I noticed a whole bunch of stuff jumping out of the water and I realized pretty quickly from a distance that it was a whole bunch of dolphins so I immediately jumped up and ran outside on the left side of the boat. I kind of took a risk because the dolphins started out on the right side of the boat and I figured that they might end up on the other side of the boat as they were coming up at an angle. I always had my camera with me because you never know and it proved to be a good idea. I got some pretty good video posted, you may have to watch it several times to see it all, try to get the size bigger if you can but look towards the back of the boat and you will see them jumping out of the water and just all around the water. Here it is:

I am craving some hockey but we are waiting for income to go to a hockey game. It helps that the St. Louis Blues are on T.V. pretty much every game on FSN. So I finally get to watch the Blues play. But it sounds like the Flames are starting to get there act together and winning some games. They were on a 6 game winning streak but lost there last one. There is talk right now that the Flames might be leaving town after this season but no one "knows" for sure yet. Here is the article: http://www.qctimes.com/articles/2009/02/20/sports/hockey/doc499e30690bdc4409174887.txt

So we will see what happens. There will be a Picture Thursday Special Edition this week so watch out for that.

SNOW!!!

Well the wind had died down after that first day I was here in Juneau but now the snow has come in and it has only snowed about 20 billion inches since then. I went out to rearrange my truck to make room for dads stuff (which I hope is enough, it should be) and I had to find my truck. They plowed around it so there was about a foot of snow all around my truck and on my truck was about 7-8 inches of wet snow. So with my little snow brush I had to remove all the snow off the hood and windshield and top of the cab and on top of my truck bed cover. Finally I got all that done and made room for dads stuff and also put some of my stuff in there since I leave Juneau tonight. Its about 954 pm right now and I think I am going to check out of the hotel at about 100 am and head over to the terminal. I will check in then wait a little for cars to accumulate in the holding area then I will go park in the holding area and wait. The boat is suppose to leave at 445 am so I should be on the boat around 400 am I think, then I will get settled in and probably slip into bed. I might go wonder around the boat but I have 3 days to do that so I will probably wait. I kind of hit me yesterday that I am almost home but for some odd reason it hit me today that I am going to Walt Disney World in about 9 months. So I am now excited to get and the fact that Disney is creeping up. And this trip I am the host. Emily has been there a couple of times so she will be a good help for me but I am the ultimate host on this trip and I am excited for that. I get to make all the reservations and everything, I am ready to that. I cant wait for Bonnie and Lysle and hopefully Amanda to experience Disney because it is the best way to escape reality and the food is addictive. Ooh the food. Holy cow I am writing a novel of nothing here. And it is still snowing out. Well, soon I will be home and not living in hotel rooms which I don't mind, if I had my family with me. For some reason I like to stay in hotels, I don't know why but I do. Anyway, next time I post, I will be in america again.

Juneau, AK. The Windy City?

So I am here in the state capital of Alaska. I was hoping to go out to a glacier and see some Juneau stuff. But to my surprise, it is blowing about 30 to 40 mph out and raining. This does not want to make Matthew go outside. So luckily I have enough stuff to keep myself entertained in my room. The boat ride was ok. It was very choppy and rocky because we were in the open water. I talked to the lady at the counter there and she said usually it is worse than this, I then said well thank goodness it is not. I have never slept so much in my life. I slept all night the first night (because we left at 9 pm) then slept a good portion of the next day. I think I was only up for 4 maybe 5 hours. I took some motion sickness pills not because I was feeling sick but because I was feeling weird. I think I was just frustrated with the constant up and down and side to side of the boat and just wanted to couple of minutes of a break. But anyway I slept the whole night of the next night too. Then last night in the hotel room, I did not get to sleep until 3 am and woke up at 9 am, I am surprised I slept that long. The next boat ride is in between land so the water will be calmer, they say the boat wont even rock that much at all. The weather, or at least the wind, is suppose to get better tomorrow so I well go explore Juneau then, but for right now, today, I am fine with staying inside. I am very excited to get home and mainly I need to give Emily a break. I am more than willing and ready to take over for a while. Unfortunately I will be all over the place as we need to go to St. Louis to pick up her car, then I need to do a lot of stuff at Rock Island Arsenal, then are stuff gets here, then March 2nd I need to go back to Rock Island Arsenal, plus get a job. But I am ready to do that as long as I am with my family. Plus I miss the kitties. So in just a short week or so, I will be home and ready to make another road trip to St. Louis.