HOLES... and the winner is...

CONGRATS NIK!!! There are 6 holes (2 of them can be seen in the shadows). You won 2 free night stay at Tolman Suites & Sweets! Located in the 4-corner region. Included is a batch of home made ice cream and ben's famous brownies.

Thanks all for playing... all that participated won 1 free night stay at Tolman Suites & Sweets!

And for the rest of you... Bahumbug!!!!

MOAB

OK, so those of you that guessed Moab, you was correct. Went up with Ryan, Heighly, and Ohio. We ended up doing a few trails. Poison Spider (minus the loop), Golden Spike, and Golden Bar (backwards). Went by Gemini Bridges. And came back to the truck by some old "grandma" trail. The grandma trail by far had some of the best scenery. It was a good trip. Everyone came home and nothing was broken!! Just a few pics...

Climbin a wall

Ohio

The end of "Golden Spike" and the start of "Golden Bar"

Going down the end/start wall shown above.

Sitting on top of the ledge just W/SW of Moab. (At least I think its on the west side)

Mushroom Rock... At least thats what I call it...

Mystery Trip

Ok, so several of you got random pictures last weekend. All of you asked where the pictures came from. So I just can't tell you... Maybe if I give a few more pictures here, it will help out..

Any guesses yet? Maybe these will help...

Ok so any guesses yet? I'll post some more pictures with the answer later.

GUESSING GAME: Also, Count how many photos have holes in the rock, and we will see who comes close.. look carefully!!!

Intern 0 Rock 1

So took the jeeps out again the other day... This time we had the intern from Art. Lift..

We will let the pictures tell the story..

Intern looking at run...

Start of the run

On the way up

And then....

The butt pucker effect..

Its a good thing there is a rock there.

Butt pucker #2

Butt Pucker #2

So no worries. Got the winch out, got the intern to the top, he put on a some clean underwear, and life was back to normal.

Ryan approaching run.

Ryan going up and over...
(some of the rubber left on the rocks is from Ryan)

All and all, it was good time. The intern came out of it with just a little bit of scraps on his front right fender flare.

In the works

So its has been a busy couple of weeks. I really haven't spent much time at the house at all. During the beginning of May we put a lift on Ryan's jeep. Pretty much anytime I wasn't at work I was with Matt and Ryan. A week ago I was swamped at work. I left my house at 4 AM Monday morning and by the time a got back about 7 PM on Friday, I'd only spent about 15 hrs at my house throughout the week. Then I was down in Houston this past week, got back yesterday afternoon... just to be going back down there Friday (have to go say bye bye to Matt).

So first Ryan's jeep. Here is a picture of it stock.

Ryan's Jeep Stock

And now... some after pictures..

Finally got to take it out!! Its a lot of fun to go out with Kit and Kate...

Other than that it just been busy at work. My week in Houston was pretty boring. I'm glad I'm finally done with Engineering Academy.

Sun up on Sunday

Well, I got called out to a rig last night at about Midnight... so I'm privileged to get to watch the sun come out this morning out on the rig! Its been a while since I've gotten to do so. However, I spent all week looking forward to sleeping in this morning. Hhmmm, I went from sleeping in, to no sleeping at all; something doesn't sound right, oh wait, i'm a DRILLER!


Besides, they didn't name me tweak for nothing.
It has been a couple of pretty busy weeks. They only TV I have watched the last 2 weeks, was this Monday's night episode of Big Bang Theory, which was as good as usual. A lot of work, the gym, and a little play.

I am kinda glad to say I still have a roommate. Matt signed and closed on their house the 9th. So we moved his stuff over that night, only to move it back on Sunday. Matt will be waiting to "move in" with Jessi. What a sweet future husband.

We have also been taking out Ryan's Jeep (he finally got it). It has been a blast.

The Jeep!

Last weekend we took out the quads and the jeep. Yesterday we just took out the jeep. We are all pretty excited for the lift kit, tires, and rims to come in sometime this week.

Well hope you all are doing well!

-TWEAK-

New Gig

Well, its been a pretty rough week. I took the week off to hang out with Nik and Michelle!!!! It was great to have some visitors at Tolman's Resort; might I add: its an extremely CHEAP place to stay. I think we all had a good time: lots of good food, PS3, movies, quading, shopping, and even a little cultural education can make for an excellent time. Except, I must admit, I am a supper bum... I didn't even get 1 picture.

So for those that aren't aware, I am (actually, already have) starting a new job. I will no longer be rotating on/off the rigs for my 2 week hitches. My new position is "field engineer", I'll let you know what I'll be doing as soon as a finish writing my job description. I'll be working on a few projects while providing rig support to all of our rigs here in the basin. I am actually looking forward to it. I really do enjoy my 2/2 schedule, but it was time for a change. Especially since I want to continue to progress and move my career further down the road, it is a good change. It will be rough not having my 2 weeks off at a time, but it will be nice to have a normal schedule.

Because of the normal schedule, I have been busy in my back yard planting a garden!!!!! I have been taking a few pictures, I'll work on getting those uploaded.

Well I hope all is doing. I also hope that maybe someone will want to come and enjoy the great times down at Tolman's Resort... (just as a reminder, this is a BYP establishment (Bring Your Pillow).