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It's been a hot month, lots of time in the pool. We had tickets to the Mud Hens game on a Friday night, Nick was booked to throw out the first pitch, roughly 95 degrees at game time. We barely made it onto the field in time, they called out Nick's name, handed him the ball, and sent him to the mound... I didn't warn him ahead of time. He threw a better pitch than the mayor, Wade's toss was a little shorter, then we spoke with him down on the field afterwards. I went to school with Wade, and his son now goes to SFS with Nick.
The school hosted a camp at Vineyard Lake, where the 7th and 8th grade boys get to know each other before the year starts. We left Nick for the weekend, where he got a lucky draw of the cabin with air conditioning. The kids spent most of their time in the lake, though, and Nick didn't go in. But he said the food was good, they were kept to their chores, and he knew a couple kids from his past schools. The camp was property purchased by the Oblates back in the 1940s for a couple thousand dollars, it's a beautiful 40 acres or so for the school to use. Brandi and I walked the MSU Hidden Lake Gardens for the afternoon after we dropped him.
Our phones stopped working at one point because they were full, roughly 50GB of space filled, it seemed like overnight. After hours of investigation, I realized Nick had takes selfies on his iPad, thousands of them. He sat in bed and shot photos of himself non-stop, and filled our storage space. Really, Nick? I took a screen shot before I deleted them all.
Photos combined from July and August this month.
Jason
Nick and I attended the EAA AirVenture show in Oshkosh, WI this year, the largest air show in the world, with over 10,000 aircraft flying in for one week each year. My company was fielding brand research for Ford onsite this year, so this was a work+play trip for me (guess which one I did more of?)
We drove about seven hours on Sunday, planning to spend all day Monday at AirVenture. It was a rough start for the work portion, with FedEx losing our equipment, and then Monday morning the support team arrived two hours late... Nick claims I planned that on purpose to throttle his fun. But he got his time in, wandering for a couple hours on his own while I worked with Suzanne to set up the team (once I got them in, running around with passes and cash). Nick and I got about four hours of the day to walk around, enough to have sore feet. We saw warbirds, small aircraft, vintage aircraft, and a few classic cars at the Ford display. The formations and fly-overs went on all day, and were amazing. Nick was able to strike up a conversation with all kinds of people, because he knows the planes, especially the military folks.
Our hotel in Fond du Lac wasn't bad, we had to share a bed (the hotels sell out a year early), which was better than all the tents onsite at EAA that got washed out in heavy rains. The food wasn't that good (our pizza at Ala Roma was excellent!), and the crowds were overwhelming, but the weather was perfect. If you've never experienced AirVenture, it's one of those places you need to see at least once, even if you're not into planes.
And there's always a 'Nick moment'... I told him we were working, so no clothes with logos or pictures on them because others could recognize those and be influenced; we represent Ford, must remain neutral. On the morning we go onsite, he packed, and was wearing, a Morpace shirt (the former name of my company.) He says, "No one will know what this is now!" Sadly true.
Jason
