Camping in Acadia, ME-July 28-30

The camping gang: Cisco, Lollipop, Big Mama, Candy Cane, Black Hawk (or Black C--k), Grandma (or Gremlin), plus the doggies Pedro and Nina. I'm Bald Eagle taking the picture.

...Take a look at that tent. It's HUGE



Black C--k and Candy Cane. The future Mr. and Mrs. Diolosa!


The Gremlin. Sleeping?

The Men.
Steve, Dave, Olivier, John and Pedro.


Going on a baseball hunt...I'm not scared.
Throughout the weekend we played baseball. We lost some balls.
We found a ball. We lost a ball. We found a ball.



On our hike.



"Big Mama, what's your 20?"...."copy that. Roger."
We made sure we all stuck together on our hike by use of
John's walki talki's!



Another view.

The View along the hike.


Taking a nice relaxing break on our strenuous hike






Steve. What are you looking at? Trees, water...nature? Ah, nature.


I guess I'm looking at nature too..









View from the top!


Greetings from the top!


Eating lunch perched ontop of a "mountain". Food prepared by Vigdis.
That girl can make a mean tuna fish sandwich.




We made a firend. Rather, Dave made a friend (refer to Vigdis' blog for more info)


We took a stroll through Bar Harbor and found a delicious ice creamery...
nothing like home made icecream after a LONG hike on a hot summer day!


Whatcha got there Steve? Picking a winner I hope.


THE FIRE! Ready for a feast! After our long day of surviving in "remote" Acadica/Bar Harbor, ME we worked up quite the appetite and cooked everything in sight (including the paper plates).




Eating our feast around the campfire. We had beans, lots of beans with the
best chesseburger Vigdis has EVER had.


Though the trip up and down took longer than expected and Acadia wasn't as "remote" as we all thought we had fun!

The Picnic Table

The Picnic Table

One of the few weekends Steve and I were in the city this summer, he decided to build a picnic table. So one Saturday morning, Steve scoped out the local lumber yard, priced the wood, screws, etc. and decided to purchase. The only problem was the lumber yard only 10ft long treated wood. "What the hell," Steve was thinking, "we'll just have a longer picnic table!" To my amazement, it took Drew and Steve a few hours to construct the table. Et, voila:

After its completion, it needed to be christened! We BBQ'd up a feast and sat the entire gang around the table. Post dinner, we played a few drinking games: beer pong and flip cup. This table is the perfect party table. Good work Steve!

(More pics coming soon)

The Belmont Stakes-July 9, 2005

The Belmont Stakes

July 9, 2005

The "track team": Steve, Drew and Jaren

Talk about luck. As Drew, Jiro, Steve and I sat at breakfast at the Barking Down on 3rd Avenue we were trying to find something to do. Claudia, Chris' girlfriend calls and offers us 4 tickets to the Belmont Stakes. We take the invitation and head out the watch the ponies.

This is Afleet Alex.

We made it for the last few races. Lets just say I didn't win big. But, then again, I didn't bet big either.

Jiro and Steve in front of the Secretariat

The Secretariat. It's self explanitory.

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July 4, 2005

LIBERTY LAKE

July 4th, 2005

"Camp Tichy" had an agenda a mile long.

In brief :

Day 1:

We begin with a workout of swimming the lake, a Tichy family tradition. The water was brisk and refreshing...

Boating on Liberty Lake.


Steve driving the boat


Steve attempting to ski.


Fishing. Jadyn, Dawn and Emily. They didn't receive the fishing merit badge because they did not catch a fish.

However, Steve caught 3 fish. He's the only person I know who's caught 3 fish in 2 days fishing in Liberty Lake




Exhausted by the lake activities it was time for a nap.

Steve and I taking a Kip in the hammock.

After the day's acitivies, we worked up quite the appetite...

Dinner Time! Chef Greg is cooking up some grub.

For the evening entertainment of Day 1, we had a bonfire on the beach and made s'mores.



Day 2: The 4th of July


The day begins with the parade in Alpine Shores




Annie finishing up the parade. "The parade is now over. Happy 4th of July"

After the parade it's back to chez Tichy. There we continued to celebrate by boating (see Day 1 activities), feasting and drinking.

After the sun went down. It was time for the fireworks.



"OOh, that's my favorite....oooh, ahhh...no that's my favorite."

...well, we didn't get to see too much of the fireworks. There was some drama this year. The first time a serious accident happened during the fireworks show. I won't go into details, but 2 people were injured. I promised Steve a phenomenal fireworks show and he was only able to enjoy a few. Maybe next year he'll come back to LL.

I think he had a good time. See his pictures and you tell me if he did.


Day 3:
We woke up early to catch our flight back to NYC and it turns out the tickets were for the 6th, not the 5th. Everything was booked, so Steve and I had an extra day at home. Basically Day 3's activities were a repeat of Day 1. Lots of boating, relaxing, and eating.

Day 4:
We go the airport to catch our plane and it is CANCELED. Yup. Canceled. The airlines are able to reroute us but on an overnight flight from Seattle. This allowed us to show Steve downtown Spokane and Seattle. Steve and I flew over to Seattle mid-day and hung out downtown. We went to the EMP, Pike Place Market, and the Piers. We went to dinner at Ivars and had some real Pacific seafood (fired of course). Finally, we made it back to NYC.