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recently had a quick trip to visit in laws. More pictures soon... maybe

a little trip

In the spring, of this year, I had just graduated from college, in mid transition to University of Utah and was unemployed. My pals justin, trevor, and josh (The Bayou boys) (as they call themselves) invited me along for a trip they were taking to California to go to a wedding. My wife set it up that they would be staying at her parents house and I "had to" go so i could be the buffer. I took it as my wife was getting sick of me stressing about finding a job and also making lame "to do list" so I stayed "busy". I am annoying to begin with, never mind when I have no direction from day to day.

It was a good trip. These are the random clips we filmed on Trevor's ipod nano and my 3 year old camera, I have a feeling only the four of us will enjoy this.

Bayou boys + 1 california trip from Riley Pack on Vimeo.

double rainbow

So there is this video on youtube that is getting a lot of play lately. It's a video of a guy tripping out about a "double rainbow". I, for one, think the video is as funny as people say it is.

Anyway, my father and I were driving to our family reunion on saturday and he turns to me and says rather casually, "look, it's a double rainbow". My dad has not seen the youtube video and had no idea how awesome it was. We pulled over to get a picture....and cry about how awesome it is.

Las Vegas polaROIDS

I haven't posted since tuesday (for those 3 of you that pay attention) because the weather has been so bad, i haven't been motivated to do much of anything. The concert also played a negative string. At any rate...we were in Las Vegas over the weekend and I have a couple pictures. Like in trips past, I converted them into lame little polaROIDS.


They turned the lights off for "earth hour", looked like a ghost town.


These are my favourite buildings, they are part of the new city center. designed by Daniel Libeskind and David Rockwell (tha same people who did the royal ontario museum of the arts)


learning a "lesson" in gambling... It was a lot like Rusty on vegas vacation "i put money in the machine and I won a car"

New Years in Winnipeg

Big delay time, I think this has been the longest I have gaped between posting. If you have noticed, I changed things up a bit. The title seams a lot more appropriate for the content. The colour is still black, not because I am a huge fan, but rather because it saves energy... every little bit helps, isn't that right Al Gore?

Anyway, back to me. I had a very odd moment last night. I was out for dinner for a friends birthday and not only was my blog discussed ( i don't think I brought it up) but the contents of my blog were the actual conversation. It was odd to hear people talking about what I had posted.

In the tradition of sharing what I think is awesome and not wanting to disappoint all my 3 followers, here are some polaROIDS from our recent trip to Canada.


Walking on a Frozen River


Welcome to Winnipeg


Ken Hongs = Legit


Taking a little train at -30 degrees


Ryan, Me, Jef


Terry, Shandi, Dad


Bank of Montreal and Winnipeg Transit Bus. I would take the bus to skate there a lot.


My House

Thanks for the fun time, to all those who were involved.

polaROIDS from the trip

Here are some polaROIDS from our trip. Camera broke but was able to keep it together to get a couple photos's. Click on them to make them bigger.

This is on the way down to california, it's what i used to think america was before i moved here.... not much has changed in my mind.


my lovely wife, actually smiling.


outside my favourite art show to date.




this is the changing room at supreme


Chad Muska's supra and Kr3w shop.


Also went to Family books, that place is awesome. The photo wasn't so awesome so i won't post it... actually none of the pictures are that awesome... oh well too late.

after seeing beautiful trees, landscaping, the ocean and just all around cleanness, it thought is was funny that they labeled this "breathtaking"


Trip was fun, lucky for me my in laws are rad and my wife puts up with art galleries and me spending hours in book stores. Thank you.