Row Row Row Your Boat...

After watching the Rockies demolish the Indians the Fellowship decided to check out a little Denver nightlife. We parked the RV over at the Pepsi Center and walked to a bar-filled street. First up was Spill, which sported a solid happy hour special of $1.00 PBRs for all. After that round we made it over to Maloney's which sucked us in with thier own request DJ and 32 oz. Silver Bullets. Joe requested the Darkness, Brother bested the Black Widow in pool, and we all left for rafting pretty happy at 1AM.

Steve-O took the driving duties to our rafting sight with Drewby in the navigator's seat. Thankfully we made it through the mountins in one piece and didn't kill any deer.

The next morning, we awoke to the beauty that is the Rocky Mountains. Take a look at the view outside our RV door.

Not bad eh?

Then after some waking up we hiked up to the cabin to meet our guides for the day. Two cool dudes, Kenny and Zach, ended up with the duties, and although Brother and Mountain Drew got stuck with a family of schmucks, all went quite well. Our intended itinerary (the Gauntlet) got kai-boshed because of a fast river, but our new route certainly wasn't boring. We hit rapids like the Widow Maker, Twin Falls, Sidle's Suckhole, the Narrows, and Pinball Passage that made us forget that this was a second choice. None of us fell out but we did pass three flipped rafts and collected many-a-paddles for them. At one point on Kenny's raft we ran into such a gnarly wave he actually exclaimed "OH SHIT!" before it hit us. Here are some pics, Drewby and Brother in the red guide raft, everyone else in the other...

Rockies vs. Indians

Coors Field, Denver, CO

First and foremost let me tell you I am in a place of unhappiness. I had some sweetacious pictures to post for this stretch of the road from the CWS to Denver and I lost all of them when my camera went on the fritz. However, I'll break down a few things for the unenlightened.

1) Todd Helton is back where he belongs. Our mascot action figure has made it all the way to Coors Field.

2) Nebraska is useless as a state. You ever wonder why they have such a good football program? Well, it's because you've got two choices in that state, be a trucker, or play ball. Literally the most boring state I've ever seen.

3) Why can't we line up the different time zones more along the state lines? I find it annoying to have it flip at some arbitrary spot 40 miles before the end of Nebraska.

Alright, that's enough, on to the game...

Outcome: Rockies, 10 Indians, 2

Win: G. Reynolds

Loss: P. Byrd

Save: N/A

Highlights: We sat in the Rock Pile, beautiful seats in dead center. Jeff Baker's inside the park homerun, Reynolds (the pitcher) stroking a beautiful shot to right field and had a fan interfere, sitting in lilteral mile-high seats, Todd Helton rocking the goat still, Playing Dirtball, Joe and Scott doing the play-by-play for the 4th inning.

View from the Rock Pile

Nasa and the Bear Brothers soaking it up

Yes ladies (and Cole), that is Todd Helton, and he is available

You sure don't get views like this in the D...

Purple Seat = Mile High.... Therefore Fellowship = In need of Oxygen Tank
They were doing full scale counter-terrorism training missions for the DNC in the Fall.

Georgia vs. Stanford

Rosenblatt Stadium, Omaha, NE

Outcome: Georgia 4, Stanford 3

Win: A. McRee

Loss: A. Yount

Save: J. Fields

Notable Sights: The crazy Georgia Fan, Erin Andrews sighting, Joe's friend (aka the other black guy on the team), Left Field/Right Field YOU SUCK chants, watching the ESPN camera wiz over us, the bomb to right field upper deck, racking up the wins at the Trivia Palace, and then scoring an interview/blue ATT jersey from the host, a trip to the Horseshoe Casino.

Florida State vs. Miami

Rosenblatt Stadium, Omaha, NE

Outcome: Miami 7, Florida St. 5

Win: E. Erickson

Loss: E. Villanueva

Save: N/A

Notable Events: Miami starting pitcher took one off the leg and had to leave in the top of the 2nd, Weeks bomb to right field, FSU's ninth inning rally, Sitting in the 6th row right next to the ESPN guy.

Greatest Show on Dirt

Omaha, Nebraska hold in it a little gem of Americana. In the middle of nowhere exists a ballpark called Rosenblatt Stadium, the host to the College World Series. Inside the stadium there are ZERO ads, NO commercials, and THOUSANDS of rabid fans. I can't think of a more pure art of baseball I've withnessed. Even aside from the games we watched, the experience of the CWS was awesome. Game 1 involved a group of Florida State fans clapping for every single opposing pitch (like waving your hands on a free-throw). Game 2 involved the outfield bleacher fans shouting in perfect unison back and forth from left to right field YOU SUCK! (crude, but ultimately great to watch.) I hope someday to return here to visit more of the games, the fan zone, the personalities. Short and sweet, it was a great day to be an American.

Ball n Chain and Fire Crotch on the Tram over to the Stadium

Mountain Drew and Brother enjoying the ride
Rosenblatt Stadium, aka, CWS central
This is the VIP section Drewby's Dad got us into. I might even buy a Pontiac after that sweet setup...

Game Reviews up next...

On Wisconsin...

We made it to Madison, at least I think. We parked in front of some random shelter and immediately were confronted by the local police. Great. She told us there were complaints about a group of guys drinking and being loud, to which we assured her, "Miss, we certainly would usually be that group, but we just got here. Come back in an hour or two."Shockingly she wasn't amused, but let us go. Then we met up with one of Big Bear's friends to eat some smorgashborg of Wisconsin beer and cheese. Have fun...

(This is a giant ivy wall where we ate. I tried to get Cole to crawl up it for the picture, he said no.)

Iowa Can Suck a Big One

So remember that post Joe showed your about going to Madision? Yeah, I don't know how to explain this except to say, our little side trip just lasted about 8 hours. I"ll put pics up later about that. Then we decided to forgoe showering and hit the road overnight. Since we knew the Mississippi River area had been hit hard we thought it would be safer to go back to the interstate and avoid the smaller highways. So let's see how that went...

Anyone interested in why such a long detour, let's take a look

God to Hell God's Country....Go to Hell