So what's my girls doing in Vegas?
Hanging out in Gilley's?
Well yeah, but they went to see some guy sing:
Not just some guy, that guy!
That guy! Yep Garth Brooks:
Nichole had seen him years ago, before he was really super famous and it had been her dream, a bucket list deal, to take our daughter Alyssa to see Garth. And all the stars alined in Vegas:
His wife, Trisha Yearwood was the plus one too, so they got to hear her sing with Garth. They had a great time!
So Alyssa's grandfather had passed away a few months back. He was an avid marathon runner and had run over 100 marathons. All the big ones, Boston, New York, London, LA all of them. Her sister in law asked Alyssa if she wanted to run in the Rock and Roll half marathon in San Diego, so they decided to do it in memory of her Grandfather. Alyssa started training and the weekend after Garth in Vegas, it was San Diego. She did great and had fun doing it. They call it the Rock And Roll race because throughout the course, in downtown San Diego, every mile they have a band set up and playing. Alyssa bout 20 yds from the finish line:
Its a big deal, 25,000 runners and 100,000 spectators!
Kinda a cool thing but she carried her grandfather's number from the last marathon he ran in, with her, the whole way:
Alyssa works in the ER in one of the major hospitals down the hill. Her work put together a deep sea fishing trip and it was the next weekend. Wasn't till she got there and on the charter boat that she found out she was the only woman going:
No matter she had a great time and although she fishes a lot she'd never been out on the ocean before:
Brought home a big bag of rockfish filets that we turned into fish tacos and man were they good!
All her girlfriends were telling her "man you got to do all the things, all at once!" So we're sitting around eating fish tacos and telling fishing stories and David Eugene, Alyssa's husband says he wants to take Big Dave, his dad, and Dave, me (see how we differentiate the Dave's in this outfit), deep sea fishing for Father's Day. So he books us a trip out of Morro Bay for yesterday. Morro Bay is quite a bit north of where Alyssa went out of at the Channel Islands. It was a very short trip as we had a lady angler on board that started having heart problems and we had to make an emergency run back into the dock. The charter boat company gave everybody on board a free pass to go again which was uber cool. Even though we only got to fish for a couple of hours it was pretty darn good. Very deep water though, 380 feet was the depth of the bottom where we were fishing where these guys were hanging out:
We were using two jigs on each line and the jigs were baited with small cut pieces of squid. These bad boys came up on my line at the same time! Tell ya what, it was work reeling in these guys at the same time from 380 feet down!
Red Rockfish on the left in the pic above and a Salmon Grouper on the right:
Tested the pics to Alyssa and she said "Holy Cow those are huge!!! I wanna go out of Morro Bay next time!" So if you are ever in the Morro Bay, Central Coast area of California and wanna do some fishing? We were on the Rita G from Virg's Landing. Couldn't of asked for a better crew for sure!
Whacha been up too?
moments and HORRAY
moments. This one was all about wet forming and retention. With Dave's
Horsewright help - I learned to do the heat treat and it worked BEAUTIFULLY! I have an audible snap fit and it looks pretty good too. DEK1 from @Lorien
) and a removable leather belt loop add on, that will allow it to hang lower on the belt than with the M Clip, for the next phase. Maybe next weekend. But for now...
