Clint goes to Baja

Clint headed down to Baja earlier this month with a couple buddies to ride dirt bikes through the desert. Their friend Mike lives there part-time, and stores the bikes for them at his place in Loreto. They first spent a couple days in town and hanging out at the beach before getting the bikes ready for their big ride.

I had designed some stickers for them to take, since I guess that's the cool thing to do in Mexico. Clint would then send me pics of all the places they were putting them, kinda fun to see!

delicious looking street tacos

Mike's garage in Loreto

With the bikes ready, they set out on their ride and planned to go through La Paz and all the way down to Cabo and back. Unfortunately, they had bike trouble on their first day, and ended up having to call Mike to come pick them up in town.

towing Jamey's bike to town

Mike to the rescue

local bicycle repair shop

The bikes ended up being beyond repair, at least with what they had in the little town they ended up in, so it was back to Loreto. They spent the rest of the week hanging out on the beach and on the boat drinking beer...rough life!

Seattle Rock Orchestra

A while ago, I had bought tickets for Clint and I to go see the Seattle Rock Orchestra perform a Michael Jackson set. I had forgotten all about it until the week of the show when I realized Clint would still be out of town on his San Diego road trip. Fortunately, Sarah and Heather we able to join me and we made it a girls night.

Sarah and I met for dinner, and discussed all things wedding. Clint will be happy to know once he's back from his Mexico trip that Sarah is on it and has everything covered...we just need to show up, ha! It was fun to see how excited she was for us, which makes me even more excited. Yay for being engaged!

Heather joined us for a drink, and then it was time to head to the show. They performed at the Kirkland Performance Center, which was fun since it's a smaller venue and we had great seats. There were three incredible singers that took turns singing Michael songs while the orchestra played through a bunch of Jackson 5 hits before intermission, and then all the 80s favorites afterward.

The audience sang and danced along, while shouting Michael sounds between songs. I thought it was a great show, and would definitely get tickets to another Rock Orchestra show again.

performing Black or White

viola solo - who's bad?

Cousin Michael's Birthday

A couple weeks ago now, my cousin Michael turned 25! He invited me to come celebrate with a night of bowling and dinner. My cousin Bryan was in town too, so yay family! We met at Acme Bowl in Southcenter, then headed to Joey's afterwards to grab a bite to eat.

losers (Michael and Bryan) doing pushups

It was so great to see both Micahel and Bryan, it'd been almost two years since I saw them last when we all met on Alki a couple summers ago. Michael is doing well, and even scored his first full-time position as a photographer for Zulily!

I was also able to get the (brief) story on the Tanaka/Mimi romance. Looks like things are on hold at the moment. Mariah Carey's management team thought it'd be best to break them up so Mariah can focus on Mariah...not because of Bryan's spending habits or jealousy towards her ex. He seemed pretty down, and genuinely cares about her. Here's hoping things work out for the best, poor Cousin.

dinner at Joey's

happy birthday to this guy!

I had such a fun time catching up with fam, and hope we can all get together again soon!