PGA tour, watch out

Brittney is encouraging me to drop out of school and pursue a new career as a pro golfer. She thinks golfers are sexy. She thinks bikers are sexy too. Good for me, I do both.

I played the best golf I have ever played today. I shot an even 80. My new TaylorMade irons are sweet.

Days don't get much better than today, Bike ride at noon, fajitas for lunch, golf from 3:30 to dark(27 holes). I even managed to clean the kitchen, sweep, mop, and vacume, get the oil changed in my car and do some grocery shopping at the dreaded wal-mart. Got to get all I can in before I am a slave to school again next week.

Here are some more photos of our Florida trip.

Adventures in gatorville, didn't see a gator

We are back from our Florida vacation.

This sign sums up Florida's land scape, nice and flat.

We had a lot of fun. As you can see from the photos we played at the beach, rode bikes, worked on our bunker game and relaxed.


Ella loved playing in the sand and especially like swimming at the pool at the condo. Once our pool is up and running next week I am sure she will be there everyday.

Ella woke up one morning screaming "My golf balls, My golf balls", being in the golf capital of the world must have rubbed off on her a little. It is too bad I did not make it out to the golf course while I was down there, every time I went past a golf course I drooled (those courses are sweet), but I just couldn't justify the $60-$125 green fees with summer tuition breathing down my neck. I did get in a lot of bunker action on the beach though.The bike riding was pretty good, there were bike paths everywhere. I tried riding my mountain bike on the beach and that was fun for about 30 seconds, then I figured the sand and salt was going to mess my bike up.Here are my bike tracks on the beach.

Heading to Gatorville

I am 26 now. A few people remembered my birthday:

Anne and Dug- 72 holes of golf and all you can eat catfish
Janie and Rog- round of Golf, cookies and stans no tubes sause
Karin and Matt- Dinner and an awesome alligator card
Jake and Karen- round of Golf and a funny golf card
Grandma Colleen- round of Golf and a nice card
Grandpa Jay- Answering machine message
Bryan- Good conversation
Bart- Day late email (said he tried to call me)
Kirk- Signed my b-day card
Todd and Gina- Dinner and a sweet cake
Self- Multiple iron sets (cant make up my mind)
Brittney- Condo on the beach, leaving tommorrow. spring tuition and a donation for my irons
Ella- swim trunks and 2 golf shirts and she blew out b-day cake candles

Heading for Seagove beach Florida tommorrow, hope we don't run into a gator. Taking our bikes to ride the 20 mile bike path along the beach, sand wedge to work on my bunker game and lots of sunscreen.

Guy gets arm bit while retrieving golf balls:
http://diver.net/bbs/posts001/63307.shtml
3 people killed by gators:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,195447,00.html
and for a whole list of alligator attacks, check this:
http://www.underwatertimes.com/crocsgators/crocsgators.php

My new TaylorMade irons came today, hit a bucket at the range and they are sweet.

Brittney is catching the bug (golf)

Brittney, Ella and I got in some evening dirt golf today after we had the missionaries and our friends the Pages over for dinner. Brittney had some sweet shots, I was really impressed and out of the blue she said she wanted to go to the driving range again, I was shocked. Dirt golfing is the new rage, get a beater club and go hit balls off the dirt where ever you can find open space.

I rode today for about and hour and it was hot and I was tired.

I hurt my back today running from a wasp hive. I was taking down Ella's play house when I felt a wasp nest with my finger and saw one out of the corner of my eye and I turned picked up Ella and ran as fast as I could. Some how I mannaged to hurt my lower back and now it is sore. I have only been stung twice in my life, once on the ankle and once on the lip and it was not a pretty site, the one on my lip I swole up like elephant man.

I am back to being super husband 3000 now that finals are over. I went on a date with my two gals yesterday we saw Over the Hedge. Ok movie, Ella liked it and the main character a racoon carries golf clubs everywhere he goes, sounds kind of like me.

124 questions between me and freedom, golf, and the beach

I spent most at school studying for a final, I took a photo from the third floor of my school, looking toward downtown Birmingham. Don't mind the nuclear plant next door, I've only grown another eye and got cancer.

After my final I went for a mountain bike ride through the trails around my house, that is if you call power line roads trails. There are a couple of cool trails branching off the power lines but the problem is I can ride them in 10 minutes and I have to deal with a lot of puddles covering the whole trail as well as huge spiders and webs traversing the trail. I guess that is why I have only ridden my mtb once since the Alabama state cyclocross championship last fall. Not to mention the trash everywhere, some stupid people are ruining this beautiful state with their trash.

My last final tommorrow is ocular pharmocolgy, 124 questions and then I am free.

Finals stink

Aced another final today (well I hope so) then hit the driving range for a jumbo bucket. My new callaway fusion irons are sweet but their shafts are too stiff so I put them up on ebay tonight. I have been studying most of the day, but I did find a chance to buy a new set of Taylor Made LT-2 irons on ebay. These have a little lighter flex shaft, hope I like them.

Ella is a crazy gal, she has not been wanting to go to bed lately and I think it caught up to her today, she fell asleep at 6:00pm and she was down for the count.

2 finals down 4 to go

I've got one final each day for the next 4 days, and then we are heading for the beach for some fun and golf.

After my finals, I went out for a ride, athough I should have been studying. I rode by the golf course and filled my jersey pockets full of golf balls. I found so many golf balls I had to stuff about six in my shorts leg. I can hold about 35-40 balls in my jersey pockets before they spill out.

Here are some cute photos of Ella and her friend Lana having a good time.