COMPLETE DETOX so the girls are all gone, it's just me and rach again until the weekend...and just in time, because i think i can hear my liver crying. But we had an amazing time in scandanavia (almost 6 weeks!) but it's time to head south for a little nicer weather. we've already seen it snow quite a few times (and luckily it's usually after the bar, and we've been really goor at drinking our winter coats on, so the snow hasn't affected us much) however, o...

Find the Hat and Hide the Bag. Find the Hat. So for all of you "non scouts" out there, there is a funny little story about life on the job. There was a baseball scout who was out in the sun, watching a game and it was soooo sunny out and it was hard for him to watch the game, so he went and bought a hat. When he sends in his expense report for the month, he included the hat as an expensed item. He receives his report back later, with the money for ...

Saturday Night in Stockholm, we haven't done that before! We've been hanging out with a couple of friends from back home - eric who used to play at U of M who now plays in finland, and a friend of his. Our friend eric has it all - he drinks too much, loves to gamble, constantly smoking, apparently addicted to sleeping pills - but is definately a good time. so they joined us on our ferry over from Helsinki to Stockholm On the List. So we figured we figured we...

Talk about gongshow... how we meet these people i'll never understand. we just hit up Helsinki (for julie's redemption tour...please see previous posts about my redemption) until 5 am We meet up with our friend who used to play hockey in michigan, but currently plays in finland, and we book our hotel rooms at the same place. after a quick get-ready session, we head out to a local bar for some quick drinks and wait for our friend Eric's "Helsinki contacts&...

Alright .... so yes... we are in Estonia! been pretty good so far. we are staying in a hotel called the unique stay hotel, which it definately is. we ferried over here from helsinki and it is about an hour and a half ferry ride. we had the shadiest cab driver but it all worked out ok. we walked around Old Town today which was amazing. however Estonia is FREEZING! The Ferry. imagine the ferry taking its sweet time, roughly 15 minutes, to just pull aw...