Foundation

So here we are pouring the foundation a couple of days ago. On all our slabs we use stress cables. So running throughout the foundation are these long red plastic tubes that encase the stress cables. They are then attached to one side of the foundation. After the slab dries for 8 days they come and tighten the cables to 8000 PSI. Well we also use pump trucks to pump the concrete to all the sites. It is pretty cool. The black guy in the picture is controlling the pump hose with this remote control thing. Kinda like a toy race car or something.

Dallas Mavericks

The Mavericks at this point were pretty much beating the crap out of the Chicago Bulls.

This was the first home game with the newly reacquired Jason Kidd. He is pretty smooth with the passes. All these pictures were taken with my phone because I forgot my camera. When were leaving I snapped a quick photo of the open huge tv plaza area. By this time the temperature had dropped like 30 degrees and the wind was like 35 mph. Good game though.

Guitar Hero Dad

Dad was pretty focused on "Schools Out" by Alice Cooper.
Look elderly people can enjoy video games.
The best part is the next morning he woke up all excited about the game and felt like he was playing the guitar when he woke up. See everyone now there is something to do in Palestine.

Texas State Railroad

This last weekend we went to the Texas State Railroad to ride the train from Rusk to Palestine and back. It was really cool to see all the old stuff. However there definately was an age group that this was designed for: Either young kids or more elderly people. 24 is not really the age of focus. However it was fun and relaxing, a little slow but it got up to 25 mph. It was cool to have finally gone eventhough it has been there my whole life.

4-Wheelin & Skeet

Lets just say when I get on four-wheelers, I like to get wet and muddy. Also I spent a ton of time getting them all started for everyone. In the end we had four of them going on the trails. So as we are out muddin, I happen to go through a extremely deep puddle of at least three feet. The four-wheeler pulled through as it was almost completely under water. Shortly after that, it died. You can see in the background that we had to tow it back like 2 miles. As we were waiting for the others to return with a tow rope, Matt, Liz, Andrea, and I started to mud wrestle. Let's talk about muddy. But it was a blast. The rest of the night was filled with Angie's dad try to diagnose the broken four-wheeler over the phone. We also got some good skeet shooting in before the game wardens kicked us out of there. Apparently we were in a wildlife management area and need hunting licenses to skeet shoot. All in all it was a fun trip.

Broken Bow, OK

So here we are in the cabin up in Broken Bow, Oklahoma. It is pretty much the most random place to go but it was a lot of fun up there. The casino was just on the way to the cabin. The stairs went up to the infamous loft where Tanner and I had to sleep. It was great except the fact that if anyone talked in the living room it echoed on up the stairs so that got pretty annoying when I was trying to go to bed at 3:00 in the morning. Then on Saturday night I happened to stumble upon some lincoln logs. It started out as a small one room house and soon there were expansions going up left and right. This was the finished project, my ranch "La Hacienda." Yeah I know that is the name of restaurant but whatever. This is what I learned so far from Texas A&M with thousands of dollars and like six years of my life.

Casino

So as we are driving to Broken Bow Oklahoma to meet up with some friends at a cabin we happen to see the Choctaw Casino. Well in anyone knows Tanner he is super gay about poker and blackjack and gambling in general. Since I had never been and since Tanner's friends were already there we stopped in for like maybe an hour. So officially, slots suck. I left -20$, Andrea -10$, and Tanner +23$. It was fun eventhough we left smelling like a Marlboro factory.