Welcome

Thanks for visiting. I'll be featuring blurbs about my family, friends and travels. If you know me, then you know that I travel for a living. During these travels, I try to learn as much as I can. I want to share these things with other people.
Also, I'm very fortunate that I have so many great people (family & friends) in my life. This site is for them and I want them (YOU) to know how much you matter to me.

--Alec

Travel: St. Louis

St. Louis has a pretty cool downtown area right within the area of the Arch there. I can't say I'd wanna go outside of the immediate downtown area. You can tell that there's a lot of partying that goes on there, right by the river.

Just downtown, by the river, you'll also find a mall, with tons of cool shops. Inside the mall, there's a chocolate store where they show you the guys smashing out the goodies on a big table and they have these guys who do like an act in front of everyone to draw attention. And it works! They always have crowds around them and they give away samples too! Good stuff.

You might be thinking that, with the picture of the arch and all why I haven't written about it yet. Well, I didn't go in. :) To be honest, I just didn't feel like going up there. I guess being there, for the first time was good enough. It wasn't that I was scared, I just didn't really care to go up. It is a very high structure though!

Oh, I can't leave without mentioning the airport. The St. Louis airport was pretty easy to get into and out of. The security was pretty laid back and standard. I stayed at an Embassy Suites close by and to be honest, for an Embassy Suites Hotel, it kind of sucked. One thing in particular was that I called in that the Internet was down and they acted like I had no clue what I was talking about and it must be me. Sure enough, many other people called in and they didn't fix the Internet and all during my stay. I was there on work and NEEDED IT. grrrr. :)

Oh, I was originally there to observe my buddy Rene Lopez teach a class on Mercury's Dashboard application. His way of teaching is pretty cool. He does more demos than anything and I like his style.

That's all for St. Louis. Peace!
--alec

Travel: Seattle

April 2008
This is the very first Starbucks in Seattle. It's located in a famous section of downtown Seattle called "Pike Place Market". It's a little cheesy to go straight for the Starbucks, but I just HAD to see it. I guess I'm a little cheezy!

The next pic is of the inside of this place. I was surprised at how small and how PACKED this small area really was. The girl at the counter said that it was actually kind of slow that day! Sheesh!

The third pic of some fish their at the Market. Pike Place Market is world-renown for it's Fish Market. This is the place where the guys throw these huge fishes across the way. I didn't get to see any of that live. Only on the tube.

The fourth pic is a Caramel Cheescake Truffle!!!! Yummmmmmmmm! I couldn't resist. I love cheesecake. but with Caramel too? Oh man. ! It was mines for the takin'. So, just think, Esspreso and cheesecake sugar/caffeine rush. buzzzzzzzzzzzz. After that, I went to get a massage(legimate!) by this really weird lady. I mean weird in the nice way. She did the Chinese Art of refexology and told me that my liver was dirty and needed a cleanin' . She would press an area and say... "Does this hurt?" . If it hurt , that was an indicatro that something in my body was "off". Apparently, the areas of the feet reflect different areas within the body. I left very relaxed and then went and had a Gyro for dinner. Man, that thing was good too. :)

Then finally is the picture of some nice looking veggies they sell there.

Emily with Glasses

I couldn't resist posting this picture. I love how Emily looks when she puts on my glasses. :)

Travel: New York City - Sumo WTH?!

25th-Jul-2006 08:41 am
I saw these Sumo dudes standing on W44th between 5th and 6th. *SHRUG*. There weren't any cameras or anything, so I don't what the point was. Whatever.

Travel: New York City - Lady in the Window

So I'm walking back to the Hotel from the Office today at around 5pm or so. I found a street to get me back to Hotel that few tourists use. All of a sudden, I noticed this crowd gathered around the window of this shop. Being the fun-seeking dude that I am, I went over to check it out. Upon stepping up to see, I saw this tall, skinny lady in a wedding dress dancing to Axel F (behind the window like a mannequin). She had this serious face and kept striking poses and all. Then all of a sudden, she started to pour food all over herself. First she cracked a couple of eggs. Then, all hell broke loose and she poured milk, flour, bread, and other generic products from the corner supermarket. It was so weird and honestly, I didn't know how to react at first. All I could do was laugh. And I wasn't the only one. All these people were laughing. It was hard to tell if this lady serious or not. I mean, her face looked serious, but what she was doing was completely ridiculous. hmmm.
When the song ended, she bowed and I walked off to hotel to get outta the heat.

Travel: Minneapolis

Minneapolis.
Minn doesn't suck. I can say that. It's pretty big. If I had to compare it to another city, I'd say that it was very much like Houston without all of the poor people.

I've been here like 6 times. Each time, I'm here for work. So, I'm inside of the Wells Fargo building all day. Huge building, by the way. I really don't get out as much as I should when I travel for work. I really love the travel, but only to a point.

Whilst here, I 've gone to Mall of America. Now, this is a FREAKIN' MALL, mannnn. Besides the fact that it's HUGE-MONGOUS, it also has an amusement park inside !!! No joke. The park is Nickelodeon (TV)- themed. There are SpongeBob and Jimmy Neutron-type of rides. The most amazing thing about this is that there is a full-fledged roller coaster there. no joke. Other than that, it's the shops inside are very typical of a mall. They did NOT have a Dave & Buster's or Gameworks! Can ya believe it? WTH?!

Somewhere you HAVE to visit here, especially at night, is an area called E BLOCK. Eblock is to Minneapolis as Times Square is to NYC. It has some pretty nice shops, restaurants, movies theaters, clubs, pubs, so on and so forth. There are a lot of people buzzing around. I also noticed that there are a ton of pubs. Hey, nothing wrong with that!

Young Family 2002

Young Family...
This is when Emily was about 2 + yrs old. We were living in a 2-bedroom apartment in Macon. These were the beginnings!

Bet and I never thought we would be ready for a child, but we decided to go ahead and take on the challenge. I'm so happy that we did. Life after the baby wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be.

Things just kind of fell in place. I wish had known that when Betiana was pregnant. ANXIETY was the word of the day back then!

I'm pretty sure that my Dad took this photo.

This is my sweetheart , Emily. There's no one else like her in the world and I'm such a lucky daddy to have a daughter like her!!!!!
This is from her school picture. What a cutie, huh?! You should see her mommy! :)

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