In March, my brother (Cory), his friend (Fike) and I finally made the trek to see the Royals during spring training. We'd heard that it is an experience to go, but we were dubious. How much fun could it be to see a bunch of no name players (ok a few good ones too) play in meaningless practice games? Let me tell you, it was a blast! To anyone out there that is a baseball fan, you HAVE to go to your respective favorite team's spring training camp. You won't regret it. It was almost baseball overload, if there is such [View Full Entry]

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While staying Brussels, Grace and I did a day trip to Antwerp. [View Full Entry]

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While staying in Brussels, Grace and I did a day trip to Ghent. Very similar to Burges only less touristy. [View Full Entry]

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While staying in Brussels, Grace and I did a day trip to the medievil town of Bruges. [View Full Entry]

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In February, Grace and I made a trip out to the wonderful little country of Belgium. We stayed at a Hilton located in the center of Brussels that was convenient to the main train station and the local subway. I really considered Brussels a poor man's Paris. The food and the culture were fantastic, but at about half the cost of what it would've cost in Paris. [View Full Entry]

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Instead of flying to Southern California for the holidays, like we usually do, we decided to do an old fashion road trip. We stayed a night in Santa Fe and fell in love with the place. The food was fantastic and the historic downtown was great to wander around in. [View Full Entry]

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In August, Grace and I made it to Chitown to take an architectual boat tour. Neither of us had done one before and it was what our friend up there wanted to do for his birthday. It was unique way to see a fantastic city. We also attended a White Sox game at US Cellular Field. [View Full Entry]

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In July, I had to attend my company's annual meeting in Lebanon, NH. Grace decided she wanted to come along as well. So while I was busy in meetings, she was busy driving all over New England visiting all sorts of art museums. After the meeting were done, we headed north to Canada. We spent 1 night in Montreal and 3 nights in Toronto with a day trip to Ottawa in between. We came back stateside via Niagara Falls and made our way thru Syracuse, Cooperstown before finally settling in for 3 nights in Philadelphia. After Philly, it was on to [View Full Entry]

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In June, Aaron, Cory, Fike and I made the trek up to Milwaukee to see the Royals play the Brewers. Besides the Royals losing and Fike being hobbled by an achilles injury, we had a great time enjoying the food, beer and hospitality of Milwaukee. [View Full Entry]

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In May, Grace and I went to check out the sights and sounds of Tampa. Not the coolest place to go, but anyplace that is near a large body of water is alright in my book. [View Full Entry]

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