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More experimentation with the premade settings on my new fancy camera. This one picks up colors you pre-set and only those colors. So now Dan's living in black-and-white.

Where's Waldo?

Hint: He's the transparent one

Indian Summer

Yep. It's back being warm and summer-like again. I think mother nature needs to stop PMSing and get with the program: pick a season and stick with it. Maybe I shouldn't complain though, because it's nice not to be wearing a parka in October.

Outing

Here's a slice of a picture of Dan waiting to get his pizza served up to him at Classic Slice, one of the reportedly best pizza places in Milwaukee. They serve thin-crust, East Coast-ish pizza that took me back to late nights eating Amore's and Ben's pizza in NYC. The pizza wasn't as good, but the company definitely was.

Let's Put the Cat in Things: A Reprise

This Scerpella kitten actually put himself into Dan's sweatshirt, so maybe this doesn't count. Cute never-the-less.

Dan at the Museum

Another shot of the bridge at the Art Museum that juts out over Lake Memorial Drive. I messed up the settings on my camera and caught Dan walking towards me. He looks all ghostlike and blurry like this. He thought he looked a little like a subject for an Edvard Munch painting, but I think he looks like a picture in a trendy art magazine ad.

Culinary Prowess

More food, I know. This is a shot of the Manicotti Dan and I cooked up for my Dad on Friday night...it took us a good while to figure it all out but it was a really good time. We followed it up by cooking up some cinnamon apple topping for ice cream (like delicious crustless apple pie a la mode).

The Flowers That Dan Sent

Just because I rock, Dan sent me roses. They came in a huge box, are multiple shades of yellow, pink, and white, and are altogether gorgeous.

Tasty Treats: Pork Chops and Applesauce

Dinner fixed up by me and Dan. Featuring pork chops and homemade cinnamon flavored applesauce.

Child Wrangler

Here's a picture of my favorite child wrangler: Dan knew just how to entertain the kids--invent a violent cross between baseball, drive-way kickball, and croquet. Thusly, Hammerball (so named for the hammer like shape of the croquet mallet) was born. Here, Dan points one of my younger cousins towards second base, right before his team got beaten soundly by the opposition. Leave it to a few 8 year olds to take competition seriously.

Catching Up: Cedar Point Pictures

So I know I'm a whole week behind on the pictures. First, my apologies. Second, let me make it up to you by bombarding you with a whole slew of pictures from my recent road trip with my friend Dan to Cedar Point, which is an amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio that has some of the biggest and fastest rides in the country. This first picture is of a fortune cookie my roommate got and has posted on our fridge. I didn't notice it until I was about to leave for Cedar Point. Pretty situation appropriate, if you ask me.


This below is Maverick, one of the best roller coasters I've ever ridden. It makes everything at the local Six Flags Great America look tame.


A quick pic of Snoopy, the park's mascot, and their fastest ride called Top Thrill Dragster. Themed like a dragster race car track, the damn thing goes from 0 to 125 mph in about 3 seconds. And yes, that's a 90 degree incline on the way up, and a 90 degree drop on the way down. It made me see stars in the crazy cartoon sense of the phrase and made me regret the Taco Bell I'd eaten earlier.


One more ride picture, this one of a steel coaster that does lots of nifty loop the loops and flips. It was like the Batman roller coaster at Great America, only longer and more intense.


A view of the park, which sits on a peninsula that juts out into Lake Erie. There was always a nice breeze coming off the lake, which makes those ridiculously long wait times for rides a little more bearable.


Dan, eating some of the park's famous fudge. It melts in your mouth and is some of the richest fudge I've ever had. I don't think I've ever seen this kid so happy.

All the Pretty Lights

Dan checks out the 20,000 light bulbs on the carousel at the House on the Rock.

A little catching up...

So I've been rather lax lately, as you can all tell from the last two posts where I tried to cram a bunch of pictures in to make up for my laziness. With any luck, this will be the last of those posts. However, to get the job done, I'm including pictures that were taken a few days ago and such. This first one here is one last picture out my window in New York City the morning I left (Friday, May 16th). One last look at the other apartment buildings, the other NYU dorm, the courtyard, the purple trim on my university dorm window, and the morning sky.



next picture Dan will surely kill me for posting. It's one more picture proving I now own a spiffy little convertible (albeit used, but who's asking?). My ipod recently broke down, so there was need for an epic adventure out to Mayfair Mall to take it to the Apple store there. And if I disappear in the near future, it's because Dan saw this picture of himself on the internet...



This last picture isn't horribly exciting, but I had to document this in some way. I went to the driving range yesterday to hit around a few golf balls, and let's just say it was pretty awful. I hit a fair few a good 100 yards, but for every one of those shots, there were five that bounced along the ground or went a grand total of 5 feet from the green I was standing on. I doubt serious attention to my swing would produce any better results.