Aloha!!!

Again, I have have had a stellar couple of weeks!

Dan & I left on October 15th for Maui! This was our third time there and it gets better every time we go! Some good friends got married on October 18th and asked me to photograph the event, I was more than happy to oblige!

I tried two new things while I was on vacation; paddle surfing and sushi. I LOVED surfing , sushi not so much.
I fell off the surf board a lot! I even got a little injury, which is a little bad ass. A friend of the brides family, Scott, lives and tests surf boards for Robbi Nash on Maui, and he offered to give us all a lesson. Scott was great at what he does!
He made us all feel at home in the water and on the boards. The brides mom, Marge, who is 78, was the only one of us to get up and not fall off! The next day she got up on a regular surf board, Go Gidget!

I got to run on the beach one morning, which was like running on the edge of heaven. The other days I walked and took tons of pictures. My running shoes were caked with sand and I gave them the proper send off down the garbage shute.

I came back recharged and ready to focus on training again.
Missy

Eins, Zwei, Drei, Ziggy, Zaggy, Hoi, Hoi, Hoi!!!

What a week it has been!!!

First and foremost congratulations to Chris and Jill for completing the Twin Cities Marathon last week in 5 hours and 30 minutes! Mother Nature was not on any one's side, it rained for the first two hours, then was pretty cold. Sarah and I saw more bloody nipples than we care to speak of. Chris also told us some pretty disgusting poop stories that I will let him retell on KFAN. Despite that our little group of running chicks and roosters have decided to run the Fargo Half Marathon in May. It should give us all plenty of time to train, at least that is what I am telling myself this week.

On Thursday our friends in the local band, Quietdrive, released their second CD,"Deliverance" at a show at First Avenue. Quietdrive and First Avenue donated a portion of the ticket sales to the TS Alliance, which is so awesome! Sarah and I pushed our way through the crowd and had a blast at the show. I made a slide show of the pictures I took, turn up the volume and you can hear the title track from the new album. The guys headed off on their first International Tour yesterday.

Make an on-line slideshow at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Last night I got to celebrate my birthday with some very good friends at their very authentic Oktoberfest party. I drank more than my fair share of delicious German beer, consumed bratwurst, German potato salad and soft pretzels. I did the chicken dance and partook in zwei das boot. Das boot is a boot shaped glass that holds 6 bottles of beer and there are rules that go with drinking from it they are as follows;

1. You must keep the toe up (pointing away from you)
2. You can not set the boot down
3. The beer can not splash in your face
4. You must flick the glass with your finger before you pass it on to the next drinker

Breaking any of these rules and you have to drink again. Sounds crazy, but is super fun!
Hope this week is as fun as the last!