One time for some reason I took a personal day because I had something going on. I cant even remember why, but even though at the time I was driving every day about 120 miles from Flint to Detroit, I wanted to take newsie682 out to go ice skating at Campus Martius park right in front of Compuware. It was my first time ice skating and I picked it up like a charm. I was doing 360's and skating backwards and doing tricks in no time. It was really nice goofing off with her and it was super cheap to go ice skating. I remember also goofing off with a little kid too.



That day we had planned on going to the DIA, but it was either closed or under renovation, so we went to the Science Museum anyways. There were a few really interesting exhibits but a lot of them were for kids. newsie682 liked them because most of them I would act like I normally do (immaturely) and I would mess around and play with all of them.



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One time my brother and I really wanted to play video games in our rooms. Specifically Dan's room because he had a little larger room. We didnt have much money for new TVs in each of our rooms, and we would always have to play games downstairs. I think we didnt like it because we would overhear the Television that my parents were watching upstairs.



So one night we both did something crazy. We ended up moving this huge wooden frame 27 inch TV upstairs while my parents were sleeping. Funny thing is, is they didnt even wake up and in the morning they kind of cracked up at what we did.



I specifically remember playing Robocop on the supernintendo that we rented from video gamer. We were super stoked about the TV!

I ended up going to DCI Finals in 2002 with Elizabeth, Chris and Emily. I really liked Indianapolis. The downtown was very clean and renovated and was not thinking it would be as nice as it was. Liz and I drove seperate because we were hanging out in Valpraiso and I guess Chris and Emily drove straight from Detroit. Liz and I ate some dinner at this Bar/Restaraunt near this huge mall. There were a lot of dorky dudes walking around because there was this big gaming tournament with Magic the gathering cards or something.



Anyway, theres nothing entirely interesting about this memory. I just wanted to post one with Emily and Chris. When Liz and I got to the stadium, we ended up walking straight into the building without anyone taking our tickets (which we didnt have). So we literally could have watched it without paying the 50 bucks. But Chris had already purchased the tickets for us so I just paid him back.



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My grandpa decided he wanted to do some traveling while his health is stable and he decided to go out west. I asked him if I could tag along for a couple of weeks and then fly home from my friend's house in Calgary. Taking this trip is truly a once and a lifetime opportunity for me. My grandpa is the out west professional. He has been driving back and forth since the 1930's and all of his children have been out there with him. Now was my chance to take a really sweet trip with him.

We left on a Thursday and made it all the way up to just north of the Mackinac bridge on the first days drive. We were trying to make it to my cousin Jimmy's wedding in Minnepolis the following day. We ate at the big boy that night and slept in a hotel right next door. Great conversations we have had thus far.

It was a long hike across the Upper Penninsula and across Wisconsin and I did a lot of work on the home page of memorycrawler.

Once we arrived to our hotel, my parents greeted us at the . . . Read More..