Sunday, March 27, 2011

Blinked and Woke Up in March; Where oh Where did the time go?

Gang, I hit a dryspell. It took me 4 months to come up with new material, and this material is a bit of a cop out.  No nifty stories, no funny anecdotes, just pure facts and photos.  You may be asking yourself, "Well Kraig, why the change, why the delay?" I would like to blame it on someone other than myself, but frankly, the last 4 months brought me on a hiatus to become one with myself.  Well, to be honest, that lines is full of (fill in blank here).  I look back and think of the different areas of blame, but ultimately, numero uno points back to mua. 

Because the writing has been minimal, non existent, doesn’t necessarily mean  that I haven’t been busy.  You factor in weddings, interisland trips, visitors 3-4x per month, trips back to Minnesota, a demanding job/client, another longer run (no, not another marathon), and you find yourself in the midst of a whirlwind and time warp.  So, what have we / I been doing, in detail? Here is a bit of a breakdown:
·         Kristin Married / Kari Announces Pregnancy
·         Viking outdoor football game / Favre’s last performance
·         Kristina’s Birthday / Christmas with K-Gals Family
·         Maui
·         Date Night (Less impressive than Carrell and Fey’s, but fun nonetheless)
·         North Shore Ginormous Waves
·         ProBowl
·         Visitors
o   Stockampers Galore
o   Ms. Waterman
o   Mike and Carly
o   K-Gal Family / Kaui
o   Kaley / Tommy / Sam / Malia
o   Vince and Tyler (Beasts)
o   Janelle, Chris, Phil
·         Great Aloha Run (8.2 miles)
·         Tsunami


Metrodome collapsed and so did Brett Favre.  Old Man River made it through the first part of the first quarter, but had a heart attack putting the lid on our Pandora's Box of a season. 



Perfect weekend in Perfect Maui featured great sites, whales, and time with the K-gal (top row); Bottom left (big waves roll into O'ahu and yours truly attempts to swim; can you see me? Kristina is swimming out to save me); Bottom Middle (Date night!!! woot woot! this photo should be used for sales), Bottom Right (pro bowl)


K-Gals family brought nerves (week with the GFs family, of course this is nervewracking), humor, and good times to both O'ahu and Kaui.  Top Left (Napali coastline), Top Middle (view from Condo), top right (Pat trying on Kristina's hat; This image will never be deleted), Middle Left (It was not a dry viewing of this coast, but still spectacular), Middle ($5 if you can guess the Non-K-Gal Family Member), Middle Right (The camera caught it, seems as though there is always a glow about K-Gals Dad...Oh, there is, her name is Rosie), Bottom right (K-Gals Family), Bottom Middle (Steven filming himself ziplining; He was too engrossed in the film to realize he was zipling over a 100 foot canyon); Bottom Left (the ladies)



As the beasts (jared hokenson and tyler kramer, picture bottom right) ventured to Hawaii, they climbed rainbows (bottom middle, they are up there somewhere), looked everywhere for their long lost hawaiian loves (top middle and bottom right), realized they were not on land and jumped into the ocean in search of mermans (top left)
*On another note, the golf out here is difficult; Yes, there are holes cut back into the jungle; I never found them (Bottom left and top Right)