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i flew in from green bay on the thursday before the 4th, and after a cancellation or two (thx a lot delta) we got into west palm by around 2. the good news is, we made it out on ronnie’s boat

by around 3:30 or so.

after much practice last weekend with ski (and life) coach john hoover, i was ready to shred. the video will be at the bottom, as i’ll just combine the videos from two days worth of shredding. we found some beautiful blue water that first day, though.

saturday we headed out to the beach.

i picked up a hottie at the beach, so i was pretty pleased (that kept me from having to put lotion on my own back – if i had known how much better having a girlfriend was than putting lotion on your own back i would have looked into this a long time ago).

here jeremy gets amorous in the water. note, my camera survived a trip into the ocean – yea me!!

you know what i didn’t get a picture of is katrina’s (my cousin ronnie’s wife’s) stomach. normally i don’t put belly porn on the web, but this would be a special exception as she is pregnant with their first child…..it’s a girl.

this is a girl, but bigger than the one in katrina’s belly.

this is just a picture of some umbrellas (explaining that in case any of my blog readers are blind and can’t see the pictures).

here’s a picture of emily. she’s sporting her trademark “why are you taking a picture of me?” look.

that night we went out on chlamydia street in west palm. it was a pretty good time. i think the highlight for me was either the free liquor at the first place (except for the jack daniels which one member of our party insisted on drinking) or the second place where a bartender when asked if she had any dark beer said, “i have amstel light.” if you had been there, that would be funny to you.

the next day we were back out on the boat. we set up camp on a sand bar, where we played some football and drank beer, while some people went out wakeboarding.

i’ll include the wakeboarding video here.

that’s ronnie getting major air, and cory driving the boat around giving good wake.

on the way home i snapped a photo of the hottie from the beach (she dug me so she decided to hang out with us all weekend).

on the way out, ronnie was delighted to find the rope swing open. here i got a photo of ronnnie jeremy and cory just in case one of them died jumping out of the tree.

we’re really gonna miss cory. just kidding. btw, cory was REALLY drunk that day. regardless he still gave good wake.

anyway, that night we had a cookout featuring my special recipe jalapeno burgers and then watched ronnie’s fantasy team lose.

the next day em and i headed back to atlanta, and we had two hours to pick up my suit for a wedding, grab my birthday present from my brother (an ipod mini) ((what you ask, wasn’t my birthday a blog-documented april? why yes, you are correct it was. at least the gift is nice. i’m listening to music on it now even as i mock jeremy)) and wash some clothes before heading to the braves game.

we got there just in time to see these guys arrive.

apparently andruw jones was influential in the battle of lexington

after the game we stayed for the fireworks.

and got to see dudes fall from the sky. an exhausting weekend, but a good time. thx to ronnie and jeremy for gettin the places in jupiter.