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We’re not in Bozeman anymore. Going back to my childhood sumer vacation roots with a few days in Ocean City, NJ. Visiting family, eating caramel corn, doing a little surfing. It is a rough life.

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Hot off the presses folks. These are chronological and the ones at the end were taken mere hours ago . I am burning the midnight oil in the lounge of Davy’s building as I attempt to deprive myself of sleep in order to gain it back on the flight back to the states tomorrow. Apparently there was a substantial earthquake today north of Tokyo, Davy says he felt it in his class but I think I was still sleeping. There was also supposed to be a typhoon yesterday but the only thing I noticed was that it almost seemed less rainy than usual. I better get home before a volcano erupts .

It is late Thursday night in Tokyo. We just got back from a baseball game. It was a good time with quite an enthusiastic crowd. I was very impressed, the Japanese are serious about their baseball. The following pictures are in chronological order from a couple days ago up till tonight. Hope everyone is doing well.

Here are a couple pictures. Everything is going great. The city is a contstant mass of movement and lights. It is really quite amazing. I’ve only been here a few days but I feel like I’ve seen so much. I feel very fortunate to be able to spend two weeks here.

Tomorrow at this time I will be on my way to visit Davy in Tokyo. I’m certainly looking forward to seeing this trip, however the whole concept is a little surreal to me. I’m leaving Bozeman for the most populated city in the world. It will be fascinating though, I have no doubt. However, before I leave there are a few details I need to take care of today.

I just got back from a trip to South Dakota to Kezia’s hometown of Rapid City, South Dakota. We did a little bit of horseback riding, were well taken care of by her family, and managed to get in climbing on three separate days in the very wonderful Needle formations.

It was a grand trip. I hope you enjoy the pictures.

Got back into town Friday evening and have spent the weekend adjusting to being back. It has been warm in Bozeman, about 65-70F for the weekend. Most of the snow that was on the ground before Spring Break has melted. Its pretty spring-like here although I’m not getting my spring pants on just yet because I expect more snow.

There are some pictures on my Plogger gallery from the trip. Here’s the direct link to the new ones
Spring Break Pictures
The pictures from Zion have some captions located above the picture. None of the other’s do yet. I had done a bunch but I refreshed the page and they all went away.

Also, when you first come to a picture, you can click on it to get a bigger, nicer one. And depending on what browser you’re using, another click might make it even bigger! whoa!

It was an awesome trip. I’ll update more in a little while. Right now I’m back at school and there are some things I need to attend to.

Here are a couple of pictures from Vegas. I didn’t actually take that many. I wanted to really get some good shots of the lights but that didn’t happen. The city certainly does better at night when the dark takes over and the multitude of lights brings your eye away from the typical big city grunge. There is a pyramid there with a giant spotlight shooting up from the top of it that you can see when you are about 70 miles outside of town.

The area outside of Vegas is quite splendid. I really am fond of the southwest. Where we actually played was about 15 minutes from our hotel and had some very nice hills surrounding it. They seem painted with lines of red and tan. Almost like they are made out of sand, very fragile looking. That picture of the sunset is untouched by the way. Thats really what it looked like. I might almost use the term “reality”.

Back in Bozeman. Things are calming down as I catch up. Vegas was quite interesting.

Some highlights:

• Our team (the Rum Runners) went 6-2 over Friday-Sunday
• Got stuck in an elevator with 22 other people for an hour and a half (more will come on this)
• Saw some standard Vegas sights, the fountains at the Bellagio hotel, an audio-anamatronic Zeus and friends pop out of a fountain inside Ceasar’s Palace
• Lost 2 dollars gambling
• Enjoyed 80 degree weather for a 3 days
• Spent 3 hours driving the final 80 miles home, (arriving at 3 am), on a snow-covered interstate
• General marveling at the train-wreck of civilization that is Las Vegas

And much more!

Right now I’m trying to stay on top of my game so I can go to Bridger tomorrow, because it has snowed about 4 feet there in the month of February, including about 3 in the last week. So there is a lot of freshy pow-pow out there waiting for me.

I just decided just recently that I’m going to Las Vegas this weekend. There is an Ultimate Tournament (flat plastic discs) there and MSU is taking a team. Mapquest says its 850 miles from Bozeman. We’re leaving Thursday morning. It will be an interesting drive, through Utah and Nevada, basically all new ground for me, which is exciting and one of the main reasons why I’m going. I’ve been through Utah a couple times but have not traveled this route exactly. I believe I’ll be the first Sulock in Vegas. (At least in our immediate family).

I go to Vegas with a mixture of excitement and fear for what I’ll encounter there, other than some warmer weather. At the very least it will be a learning experience. Right now I associate Vegas with lights, buffets, and gambling (although not necessarily in that order). I have gotten a little ahead as far as school is concerned, but the beginning of next week will still be challenging. You can’t miss four days around here without paying the consequences. But I will deal with that Monday.
Hopefully when I come back I’ll have some interesting pictures and some insight into one of Elvis’ favorite cities. I hope everyone is doing well.

p.s. I’m glad that the Tar Heels managed to pull out that win against Coach K and the rest of his cronies.