my blahg...: April 2010

It's been a busy but fun last couple of weeks and it started off Wednesday with a very nice pet portrait session with Logan and Molly and the rest of Mary Miller's crew:

(Logan and Molly)

Then, Thursday morning we were headed for a road trip to Missouri(a) with a crew of Athens/Atlanta BMX riders for a contest in Joplin, Missouri. We had an awesome trip, stopping pretty frequently on the way out there. I had a little fainting spell in a Subway near Missouri and the sandwich maker revived me with peppermint oil! It really worked too! Anyway...I don't know what was up, probably car sick and too much red bull? There's no telling.

Anyway, the contest was pretty cool and most of my entertainment was just watching people. Also, I'm amazed that these guys can fall, bust their asses really hard...and get back up and try it again...whaaat?

Here is a link to my flicker account if you wanna see some pix of BMX flatlanders, ramp rider crashes, Athens people, and dogs and flowers:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/anneyarbroughphotography/

Or, here are some of my favorites if you don't care to check out the link:

We camped at the KOA, then stayed at the contest ALL day long for 3 days. Jon shared his meals with me and we dragged Rudee to everything and she just sat there and took it! She loved it!

We drove all night and got back to Athens around 12pm. The next day after sleeping in a little we loaded the motorcycle and more of Jon's Freestyle Connection stuff up and headed out to Indian Trail, NC, then Wilmington for Jon's school shows.

After the Wilmington show, Jon and I split ways with Jarred and took off...with Rudee...back to the Days Inn...a pet friendly hotel I might add! Very nice choice of hotel / nice staff and a cute little restaurant.

Jarred took this one of us

Waiting for her mom or a lost puppy? She looks so sad but she's really happy : )

Greyhound at the Days Inn

We forgot about having Rudee until last minute so she's stuck with us again!

We got comfortable at the days inn, then left for dinner at a place called Dockside (I think). It was okay, but I think we ordered the wrong thing.

The next morning we loaded up Rudee in the backpack and headed to a beach, or 2 or 3 until we finally found the more laid back and pet friendly Kure beach.

We stayed for a little while but didn't find any sharks teeth - but WAIT - I just remembered to mention that Jon found his FIRST shark's tooth on the sand just after leaving the bar near the beach in Wilmington and here is the proof:

How adorable is this guy? : )

Here are some other pix from the beach:

Gross looking foam

This is NOT photoshop but it's a real life liquifying look!! Just turned out that way b/c I slowed my shutter speed to play with getting motion blur with the water and then turned around to take her pic. You gotta enlarge this one b/c it's so weird looking!

Just sand bubbles

Come on PLEASE throw me a shell

Gold Diggers

Giving me the cut eye or just feeling lethargic?

We left the beach, squeezed Rudee in the backpack, and headed for a cool ferry ride!

We parked the motorcycle and walked around the boat. The captain even fed her pupperoni's!

It was awesome and such a pretty day!

We rolled off the ferry then headed for Indian Trail to pick up the van Jerrad drove back from Wilmington for us. Here are some pix along the way:

stopping to get a map b/c Jon's flew out of his pocket

check out the names of these movies, might have to enlarge... is this a theme or just a coincidence?

In this photo: slaw (already smeared around), green beans, dinner rolls, and pork BBQ : ))) mmmm

We stopped to eat at a place in Lumberton (pretty sure) called Fuller's BBQ and OMG they give you a ton of food AND you can substitute items from the awesome looking buffet to go in your BBQ plate. This is the SMALL version, whaaaat?

The ladies were soooooo nice, too. They immediately came out to offer Rudee water. Here's a pic of Rudee licking her ass while the waitress tries to talk to her:

You can look really close and see Rudee in the rearview mirror

This is a guy we met on the way, telling us about his lil' ol' terrier at home when he saw us with Rudee. I couldn't get over the impressive wad of dip in his cheek! How'd he fit that much in there?

We showed up at Jarred's house FINALLY... we had been on that motorcycle for WAY longer than we expected and we were both really tired. We were cracking up on the way home b/c we meant it to be a leisurely ride! Of course we had fun though.

Back in Athens, we had some friends show up Friday and Saturday night, and I yard sailed with my friend Amanda and her AWESOME well behaved son Jackson.

Amanda bribed him with an oreo mcflurry! I'd be good too for a mcflurry - especially for an m&m one...I LOVE those and they're cheaper and better than blizzards!

Cute little kid with a devil's pitchfork

I bought this sweet little set of 4 mugs and salt and pepper shaker. I love the color.

I also found this awesome Trek bike and I absolutely love it! I think it was meant to find b/c there's a lady bug on the spoke! Look!

Jon's friend Rodney has his little girl's pix on his bike! That is sooo sweet! I'm gonna put one of Rudee on my bike : )

You can barely see them in this pic but look right in the middle and there they are.

So finally to end this long blah blah blahg, we went to the ACR Mutt Strut! Rudee won first prize for most talented when she did her yoga stretching moves with us! She actually pulled it off, front AND back leg stretches! Way to go Rudee!!!