Meat Market

The Boyces joined good friends, Chris & Steph, out on the town for a celebratory engagement dinner at Samba Brazilian Grill. After ten long years of "courting", after nine long years of being voted "most likely to get married next", after EACH of them having caught bridal bouquets, the two are FINALLY commiting to get married..well, sometime in their lifetime; they have yet to actually set a date!

So in celebration of a commitment to remove oneself from the figurative meat market, we went to what felt like a literal meat market, a brazilian grill. Vegetarians beware, I've included pictoral examples of our dinner down below.

You flip the marker to "green-for-go" and the meat descends on you via dark, young, goucho's (Brazilian cowboys) with huge skewers.
Flank steak? Tenderloin? Top Sirloin? Duck? Lamb? Pork?
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes and YES!
After a few rounds of meat, meat and more meat, we flipped our marker to "red-for-I-CAN'T-EAT-ANYTHING-MORE" and called it a night.

I would give this guy a tip if he worked at the birthday bar.

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OBAMA!

Today was a REALLY good day!

Goo Goo Waterfall

This is the famous Goo-Goo Waterfall. It is located on the shores of the great lake in the middle of "my train table". The falls are approximately 12 inches in height have been flowing at least 12 months now. Just look at that clear blue water! Goo-Goo Waterfall was named by Caleb Boyce in the later part of 2008 or the early days of 2009 for obvious reason. The falls are probably best known for the famous train line that flows under them TWICE! If you ever have a chance, you should really visit the falls. Caleb can give you a special guided tour... he calls it "wanna come play with you"?

 We, as a family, are officially fed up with this ridiculous weather!  We would like to here-by state, for the record, that we want summer back.  We miss picnics at the park, going without shoes, wearing only tee-shirts and shorts, going swimming, riding in boats, basking in the sun and all of that fun stuff.  

We want, no we demand an end to -40 wind-chills, shoveling twice a day and cracked finger tips.  If there is going to be snow we want to be able to enjoy it.  What is wrong with a couple 25 degree days huh?!?  Until this issue is resolved, we as a family, are going on STRIKE!  If you need us we'll be in bed under the covers with the heat CRANKED!

Lovin' life at Helen C!

I'm not sure I have the stamina for this all day studying thing!!! I found my old favorite table at Helen C. today and watched the shadows form across the lake. At least that part was nice.

Cody has officially lost his noodle. He is taking tomorrow and Wednesday as vacation days to STUDY!!! What has the world come to? Has the schemer of vacation days finally lost his mind? No, fear not. The rationale goes like this: he's on a hard (time intensive) rotation right now so taking vacation days now versus in the next few months (when he's on easy rotations) makes sense... I think?!? Still, it just doesn't feel right.

Additionally, and perhaps even more disturbing, is that he looked up the hours to Helen C. White library for tomorrow. Can't go to work or people will expect him to do something. I guess it is off to the old stomping grounds. Heidi knows where to find me :o)