Beautiful site with tons of cute games!

http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/

My new favorite thing...

So many wall decals to choose from...which one should I get!

http://www.whatisblik.com/walldecals.html

What a vacation!

Here's some pictures for the time being...will update later.

It's HALLOWEEN...My favorite Holiday!

The effects of Tropical Storm Noel make this evening even more spooky with the wind, rain, and flickering lights. It feels oh so like Halloween should. Not going to do anything tonight because of the weather. We've decided to just stay in and 'Rock Out' while playing Guitar Hero. Hope you all have ghoulish evening.

Picture from our Halloween Luncheon today:
From Left to Right:
Andy = Grim Reaper
Ian = Link from Zelda and costume WINNER (Props to his wife for the detail in this costume)
Christopher = Plastic Surgeon (he's been watching to much Nip/Tuck)
Tony = This speaks for itself.
Nicole = A Punk Rock Girl

Epcot Food and Wine Festival

Frank and I headed up to Orlando this past weekend to attend Epcot's Food and Wine Festival. Let me tell you...its wayyyyy too expensive for what you get! In addition to the cost of the park entrance, each of the speciality restaurants from the countries of the world had featured menu items including wine/beer, priced from $3.50 - $5.00 for a bite size or 1/2 glass portion. It wasn't much the cultural experience as it included typical foods from each of the countries, but we still got our 'PIG ON'. We headed home early, saving the Cirque Du Soleil show till our next trip.

Here's pics..Enjoy!

What does Sunday, Scavenger hunt, and Sunburn have in common?

Answer: The 2007 Miami Herald "Herald Hunt", held this year in Miami Beach!!

Continuing the blossoming tradition, this would have been the 3rd year Frank and I partnered to win this event. HA! Who are we kidding, rocket scientists and programmer dorks win, but we always have fun trying.

For those of you not familiar, two local Newspaper writers (Dave Barry and Tom Shroder) have been organizing and conceiving the clues for this event for over 20 years.
This event encompasses a bunch of little brain teasers that are scattered throughout different coordinates on a map of the area they are holding the hunt. Some of the clues will consist of ridiculous props, drag performers, stuff on/around buildings, music, hand outs. All of which, should result in a number. It’s your job to walk to these sites and solve the clues, which lead you to other clues, and other decoy sites. Eventually your mind is spinning from either the HUMIDITY or the frustration, that and all you want to do is go eat because that is definitely something you can get right!

Answering all the clues right from your morning quest will result in five numbers that correspond to additional clues printed in the newspaper handout. It’s not until 3:00PM, when your brain is shutting down and you're suffering from heat exhaustion, when they announced the final clue. We usually give up at this point and accept our defeat.

Found this online, this guy words it much better…

“The premise is fairly simple: take a South Florida city on a cruelly humid day, place several stupefyingly difficult brain teasers throughout the location’s streets, print a special section of the newspaper filled to the brim with red herrings, false leads, and a cartoony map exploding with distracting puns. All that’s missing is several thousand irritable and sunburned people with absolutely no idea what they’re supposed to be looking for.”

This year we had an adequate amount of brain power with a team consisting of Frank, a bunch of his buds from work and myself (6 in all). We did surprising well, and nailed 3 clues, had a lucky guess on a 4th, and plain out could not get a 5th. Within half an hour of them announcing the final clue, there were some winners (cough *NERDS*) and they reveled the answers to all the clues thereafter. All in all, we had a great time looking just as confused as our fellow hunters and I can’t wait to do it again next year!

Interested? Check out the solutions here:

Additional Info:
A true fanatic, and a colleague of mine, Andy runs this site in his spare time and chronicals all the past and future events to come. Check it out!

Where does the time go?

I’m really bad at keeping in touch with family and friends. This is a fact! Maybe its laziness on my part or lack of time, but this is not to say I don’t love and think about all of you! I just get wrapped up in the day to day, it’s so difficult to detach myself from it and follow up on the lives of those I love.
Since I often feel guilty about how I become so distant from everyone, I’m creating (and will try my very best to maintain) this blog site. Ah yes! I’ll use technology to my advantage!! I aim in keeping everyone informed as to what has been going on in my life, so those who wish, may share in my life’s experiences. I also want to make this as interactive as possible, so feel free to contribute and keep me up-to-date with you! :)