Cars, water, sun and orange juice.

The past weekend was lots of fun. As I had planned on Saturday, me and the Burns' headed to HSV for some fine lunchtime dining at Macaroni Grill. I had one of my favorites, the grilled salmon on a bed of spinach and orzo pasta (looks like rice). After that, we trotted down to Toys-R-Us for some gift-age for Kailyn. There's a LOT of toys out these days. Holy crap. After I picked up what I wanted to get her, I went next door to the bookstore to pass the time with some magazines on cars and music.

Next stop was the Nissan dealership. George, the guy who helped me before was there and he had me sign some papers and then me and the crew could go driving by ourselves in whatever I was interested in. Went riding in the Armada first. I've pretty much come to the conclusion that the Armada's a little too big for me. It's really a lot like a Japanese Humvee... The Maxima fit me much better. Nice engine in it too. Plenty of power. Anyways, I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet. I'm really adverse to getting a new car and taking that initial depreciation hit. Since I'm in no rush, I'll be doing some checking into used vehicles before making any kind of decision.

Church was great Sunday. I was off drumming duties so I was out in the crowd. I got Kerry to move out of the Baptist back row and get up in the front. Music was great! I especially dug the mandolin playing by Steven. Nice touch.

Had to make a quick run by Wal-Mart afterwards and get some supplies. Dropped stuff off at home then headed over to the pool for Kailyn's birthday party. Had a great crowd there! Jack resurrected the party favorite of all insurance agents... pool surfing. The surfboard is made of 2 floats, one on top of the other. The bottom one is your standard "I don't wanna be white anymore" tanning float while the top is a thick foam rubber one that gives you a somewhat firm surface to stand on. Someone centers the float in front of the diving board then the surfer takes a run down the board, lands on the float and tries to stay up as long as possible. It's a good time for everyone. See pictures of the actions below.

Made a quick run home to get cleaned up and changed then headed back to the Burn's for our group get-together. Big crowd there again! Had a good time talkign about ministry and church in general then a fun time grilling, eating and reading trivial pursuit cards. We are all like a brain trust of odd knowledge. You wouldn't believe some of the junk we know about. It's scary for sure.