This past weekend was “Guy’s Weekend.” Spawned from a few different bachelor parties in the mountains, once we realized that it was going to be awhile until another bachelor party we instituted guy’s weekend. Technically 2006 was the first annual Guy’s Weekend. This year we were a little less organized due to busy schedules and lost out on getting the same house. Nevertheless GPC pulled through and found us a sweet condo just at the edge of town. Oh what town, the town of Breckenridge, Colorado.

Fortunately for us, it was also Oktoberfest in Breckenridge so we had everything figured out. Go up Friday night, get drunk. Get up Saturday and hit up Oktoberfest for the day. I must admit, if you’ve never been to the Breckenridge Oktoberfest I highly recommend it. This was my first time and I look forward to going again next year. Without a doubt you need a place to stay up there for it or at least for sure have a sober driver. There were two beer vendors, Paulaner and Breckenridge. I of course drank Paulaner all day, starting with their Oktoberfest and finishing with their trusty Lager. Hey I was in the sun all day.

Personally I think it’s silly to have any non German beer as an option, but it is in Breckenridge and the Breckenridge Brewery was a sponsor anyway. It wasn’t terrible in price, you bought drink tickets. They were $4 a piece. You could also buy a 16oz or 24 - 28oz stein. By the time I had enough to drink to be willing to splurge and buy a stein they were out of the big ones and I got stuck with a little one. I even got heckled by a girl for not having a larger stein. Boy does that just sound so wrong.

The event culminated in us watching a long unseen occurrence of a drunken fight. It appeared to began as any spat, then evolved into a slap fight and ended abruptly as one guy punched and knocked out the other guy. Ahh the memories of being young again. I’ll have to say the Breckenridge po-po were very cool and calm with just about everything.

All in all Guys Weekend kicked ass, I look forward to next year and hopefully more people can make it.

It’s been about a month now, it’s time to get back to normalcy here with my blog life. Adjusting to life without Jasper has been tough, I think it’s tougher now than it was after a week. I keep thinking he’s coming home, but he’s not.

We have been keeping busy though, not to forget, but so we don’t dwell. A week ago we entered the Audi in to Dubs Along the Rockies, which is a Vw/Audi show in Colorado Springs. We brought home the best in class award for “Other Audi.” Since my car is a little old, it didn’t fit into another class. However, I did have some stiff competition, a 2003 Audi RS6, my friend Andrew’s Audi Allroad with many many upgrades. There was also a nice Audi 90 CS and an Audi 90 Coupe.

Renee and I began work this weekend refinishing the pergola out back. It covers our entire back patio. The previous owners were odd. They were very creative and it appears things were well engineered, but when it came to choices in products to use and finishing the work they were very half-assed.

While removing slats from the top of the pergola that provide shade we found them all to be bad. Well all but two. Why two? Well two were wood, the remainder were all MDF. Yes, Multi Density Fiberboard. This stuff is not designed to be used outside. I mean if you sealed the hell out of it it might last. I don’t even think they primered these babies before putting on a light coat of paint.

They were all warped and were about 1/2 to 1″ thicker because of water retention and rot. We had to replace 62 slats. The remainder of the pergola is wood, so some power washing and scraping to remove old loose paint. We picked up some Behr Premium Plus Ultra™ Exterior Semi-Gloss Enamel from Home Depot. Initially we picked up a 5 gal can of Primer only, but found this and so far we like the look. Lets hope it holds up. We have been applying about 2 coats to the old painted wood and will be doing about 3 -4 coats on the new wood slats.

We hope to wrap this project up by the end of the month, however, this weekend we are heading to Salida for Kolorado Treffen. This is slated to be the first of it’s kind event in Colorado. Not a show, not a brand specific event, but a way for auto enthusiasts to get together and talk cars, have fun and go drive.

The following weekend is Guy’s Weekend in Breckenridge. Renee isn’t too happy about me being gone for a few days, but it will be fun to hang with the guys and watch them get wasted.

That’s it for now, I will try and get some in progress and after pictures of the pergola if I remember to.

This weekend a small group got together at LoDo’s in Lone Tree…sounds so weird to say that…had a few drinks, ate some nachos and came up with an idea that will shake you to your core.

VEGAS JUNE 2008

Start saving your pennies kids, because you’re going. What? Did I stutter? You are going.

Get your shit together, you have 11.5 months to get sitters, take time off, figure out how to go out and have some fun.

More details will follow, but the tentative goal is the third week of June, it will be hot, but no un-Godly hot. Should be low 100’s. Nothing a Fat Tuesday or two can’t cure. We are trying to make this a big thing for all the friends and there is a potential for a big surprise while there, no guarantees and no details right now, then again it wouldn’t be a surprise if we gave it all away now would it?

Feel free to drop me a line with any questions.