Here is July in a 20 second overview, there are some pics in the random summer pics gallery:

- 311&snoop - new iphone - boating and some boat repairs - broke iphone - OD’s B-day party at Tony’s - Fred’s B-day this weekend

Saturday MB scored some VIP tickets to the Toby Keith concert….

We had some pretty nasty thunderstorms roll in about an hour before the show, however still tailgated under the easy up. The weather cleared up in time for the concert, however its not like it mattered since the box seats were under the cover. The seats were actually pretty impressive. The coolest part was we were right under a confetti box that open at the end of the last song, and we got covered with red, white, and blue confetti…. it was petty damn cool.

We capped off the weekend with a Sunday afternoon lake trip. We probably pushed it a little too far as there were thunderstorms rolling in and we decided one more ski run. We ended up getting dumped on pretty hard. Oh well, I had a blast.

I didn’t get too blasted Friday night and was up around 11AM on Saturday getting the boat ready. We were on the lake around 1 o’clock. It turned out to be a great day of wake boarding, watersking, and general lakeing. Shaun and the Caterpillar guys had a pontoon boat and a large group of people there too. I ended up with a reverse wife beater burn…. never put suntan lotion on before you take off the beater….

The marathon weekend ended Sunday working on the bathroom all afternoon till around 7:30. We got a lot of tiling done, a good part actually. I might finish this bathroom just yet. One or two good weekends and watch out…..

All in all it turned out to be a very productive weekend. I don’t know how Iam still standing. Next weekend I may head to visit Robbie in FL. We’ll see if I can get all my work stuff done and take Friday off.

We started the long weekend by heading down to Rocky Point NC, which is a little north of Castle Haynes NC, where we stayed at Nate and Daniels place. We had a great time there Friday night chillien in the barn and hanging with the peacocks. Saturday was overcast and cold so we didn’t do much in the AM. We finally got the boats in the water and camped off the river that night.

Sunday we refueled and trailered the boats to Castle Haynes to save time. After a short stop at a railroad tussle and a minor run-in with the law we embarked on our 3 hour tour. We headed south on the cape fear towards Wilmington. It was a really nice run, we even did some wake boarding along the way.

It took us about an hour and a half to get to Downtown Wilmington, where we dropped it down to boosecruze speed and Scott refueled on Capitan Morgan. We thought about stopping for a bite to eat at on the waterfront. however decided if we we going to make it all the way to Wrightsville we better stay on course. The Wilmington water front was really cool, we cruised by the USS North Carolina and the port of Wilmington.

After that we bumped it up a notch and roughed the mighty mouth of the Cape Fear. This was a jarring half an hour but we just wanted to get this part out of the way. Once we got in to Snows Cut it was smooth sailing. We stopped and let Robbie out to blow off some energy where he climbed the steep dunes from the dredging barges and rolled down like a rodeo clown.

Once in the intercoastal we cruised past Carolina Beach and on towards Masonborough. This was great fun and made the trip all worth wile, ‘Beers For Days’ as some would say. We lucked out since it was late in the day and most of the Memorial Day madness had thinned out. We pulled up to the party cove between Masonborough and Wrightsville and watched some of the hardcore partying.

By this time it was staring to get dark. We finished up the odyssey with a nice cruise to the Wrightsville boat ramp. where Robbie and I grabbed a cab to my truck. which we had dropped off at Daniels apt complex.

This was a great weekend, as we like to call it, a successful recon mission for many more boat trips to come. I hope to have some pics up soon stay tuned.