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P.S.

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Here is a picture of the truck. Unfortunatly he did not send a picture of bottom part. (In case you dont know, my bike is red/yellow/black)

A Happy Anniversary?

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Greetings All! First, if you haven't already, check out the last post from when Steph and I visited my parents for the weekend. Some pretty cool stuff there. Alright! So Tuesday the 5 th was Steph and I's second anniversary. We went to Big Bear and spent the night at a bed and breakfast called Knickerbockers. For those who may not be too familiar with Big Bear, it is a lake high up in the mountains that's fairly famous for its skiing but is a fun place any time of the year with plenty of hiking, biking, wildlife and water sports . Below is a picture of Big Bear. The next picture is a picture of the Knickerbocker mansion. This was a rustic cabin built in the 20's by one of the first people to live in Big Bear. He maintained the dam that supplied the orange groves in Redlands with water. After Steph and I arrived and settled into our room, the first adventure we undertook was a mountain biking excursion. The Knickerbocker boarders a national forest, and there wer...

Account of a Weekend

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Steph and I went down to my parents place in Oceanside for the weekend because my sister is leaving for Wisconsin on Thursday to go to law school and we wont have a chance to see her again for a while. First thing we did was go to the beach. It was sunny and warm at my parents place, but there was a pretty nasty marine layer at the beach, so it wasn't all that sunny (as you can see). I went in the water for a bit and did some body surfing, but I was the only one to really go in. In case you're curious, that is the pier with Ruby's at the end. Excellent restaurant . My parents took us out for dinner for our anniversary (on the 5 th ...aka tomorrow), and on the way back from the restaurant we stopped at a little automotive museum they had on Camp Pendelton . This place is only about 2 miles from my parents house, but we had never stopped there. It was pretty interesting. Even the girls who didn't really want to stop got rather excited when we found out the hatch was o...