Category Archives: Travel

Game No. 1: Penn State at Wisconsin

Saturday night I went to my first football game of the year, Penn State at Wisconsin, I was able to add another notch in my BIG TEN stadium belt by visiting Camp Randal Stadium for the first time. The game was a blow out from the second quarter on as No. 6 Penn State rolled to another victory. The above picture is of Penn State’s Derrick Williams as he returned a punt for a touchdown in the third quarter.

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*After hearing bad things the last two weeks about Wisconsin fans in Madison I’d have to say it was a cake walk. The only thing (and I stress the only thing) that happed to us was a random middle finger at halftime to which I respond by asking: “Really? A middle finger?”.

** The rest of my photographs are on Flickr.

Weekend in New York.

After another shitty experience with American Airlines I made my 12 hour journey to New York on Friday. I feel like I acomplished a lot:

Pastries from Gian & Piero Bakery in Astoria.
Multiple rounds of beer at McSorley’s.
A burger at Ted’s.
Wings at Croxley’s.
Picked up a Wii Fit at the Nintendo World Store.

Friday evening I met up with Josh & Emily at the Nintendo Wold Store and then we headed down to McSorley’s where waited for the infamous Jim Wallis to arrive. Things were a little more low key this time around at McSorley’s but then again everyone’s a year older. We moved on to the Telephone Bar and then called it a night.

*Side Note: For those wondering Jim’s black eye did not occur at McSorley’s.

10 Year High School Reunion

Saturday night was my ten year high school reunion and as you can imagine it was awesome. I’m not sure how most 10 year reunions go but Franklin Heights 10 year reunions are always awesome. We had a great turnout, possibly 50 people which is more than any of us organizing the event thought was possible. we had some kickass name tags with our senior pictures, there were some pretty decent door prizes and the decorations were top notch.