Christmas Tree

For the last couple of weeks Aileen and I have been talking about putting up the christmas tree. Aileen was devastated when her Dad informed her that he had in fact thrown their tree in the garbage.

So whilst shopping Ai and I bought a new tree. We shopped around for the lowest price and finally settled on this little pearler from Walmart! Where all of the bargains are to be had!

After purchasing the tree we set off home to assemble and decorate it ensuring that we utilised the team lift method, to protect our backs. It was a lovely evening with what I feel is a lovely finished product.

The Dollar Store

Aileen and I took a walk downtown to do some shopping. We came across a dollar store that had obviously gone cheap on their advertising. I mean, what were they thinking? There was obviously a guy sitting there saying, "lets take a photo of the perfect family and tell everybody how much the items in our store cost." then when business wasn't so great, instead of replacing the four signs that are around the exterior of the shop, somebody was like, "ah, stuff it!. Not everything is a dollar now, but dont worry about reprinting........screw the Dad, just cover him up!"
Kitschyness at its finest! I love it!

Nascar Shredded Beef Jerky

Ok, i'm going to walk you through this horrible experience step by step. For some reason I thought it would be a great idea to buy beef jerky that came packaged in a container similar to that of bubble gum tape. This should have been the first clue!
The second clue should have been that it was 98cents. I thought that it was normal beef jerky and was oblivious to the fact that it was shredded to a tobacco like consistency. My reaction was as follows:

Photo 1: MMMM....... Look what I have Aileen!, your going to have to ask very nicely if you want some of this!

Photo 2: Huh???????? What is this rubbish?!?!

Photo 3 (after trying the product): Oh my god, I think I'm going to be sick!. Ai..........Do you want this?? You can have it sweetie!! he he he........please take it.

This Is Where The Magic Happens

Aileen snapped this shot of me blogging after we returned home from the bengals game. This is pretty much my position whilst posting new entries for you lovely people to read.

After The Game: The Bengals Are Defeated :-(

After the game, once the stadium had cleared and we had finished our drinks, we decided to take some photographs of us at the stadium. Then as we were leaving, slightly intoxicated, I decided to ask the Cincinnati Police if they would mind posing for a shot with me. Aileen was begging them to cuff me and take me away, but thankfully they didnt listen to her.
After all of the fun and games it was time to walk three blocks home to the condo.
The End.

Welcome To Paul Brown Stadium

There is nothing to describe the feeling of attending an American Football game. The size of the stadium, the amount of people and the colours of all of the supporters.
The Americans spend so much money on their stadiums and each event is like Origin x 10.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention... Kris and Julie got us club seats which are pretty top notch. They gave us accest to the club lounges and to the club seating area where we could see everything that was happening with the greatest of ease.
I cant wait to go again.
Dont the Ben-Gals look so hot in their thick parka's prrrrrrrrrrr............... Ha!!

Cincinnati Bengals- American Football

On Sunday morning Aileen and I were picked up from the condo by our friends Kris and Julie (centre photo). They invited Aileen and I to accompany them to the Bengals game as they had gotten some extra tickets for us.
They also invited us to go "Tailgating" with them. Now my first response was, "Ok, so why do we want to drive really close to the cars in front of us??" This is not what tailgating is here. Tailgating here is freaking awesome!!!.
Tailgating basically consists of a lot of people whom are attending the game, standing by the back of a few pickups with a barbeque, beers, music and a whole lot of food for a few hours prior to the start of the match. It is great!!.
These photos show Aileen, Julie, Kris and I "tailgating". The third photograph was taken by Julie's father who carefully decided that he didn't want his son-in-law in the photograph because he was dressed in the colours of the opposing team.