Alliteration Assignment: Alamo, Austin, Aliens, Albuquerque

It's been two days since we posted. Today was mostly a travel day through the bowels of America so we'll get you caught up. Kirby and Brad went to the Alamo. Parking was expensive and the building is rather old. We each took a picture in front of the Alamo so you could see the magnificence of our work.

Kirby says howdy pardner.

Brad takes a picture of Kirby taking a picture.

Michael Dietz in front of the Alamo. Do you see?

This is an important sign. You don't mess with Texas. They even have special Alamo guards that are dressed up like the patrolmen from Supertroopers. One of them even had a moustache. There is no photography inside, but let me tell you, it is a magical world where you can lick the walls and the snozberries taste like snozberries.

There are cacti inside the grounds. Brad touched one. They are pointy. He said it hurt, but that might have been his sunburn.

They had vending machines at the Alamo. Boy was Davy Crockett lucky. I got ice cream treat from the Nestle machine on the right. Brad only had a five dollar bill, so he had to buy four dollar dippin dots. They are the ice cream of the future.

This is a statue outside of the Alamo that commemorates all the men that fought at the battle of the Alamo. It has their names inscribed on it. Here are pictures of a few of the names of people that the state of Texas claims were at the battle of the Alamo. You might recognize a few names.

I find that interesting. We left San Antonio for the day and travelled to Austin, mostly because they had last call trivia there. Sometimes the speed limit in Texas is 80, and other times its 65. Brad likes to combine them and go 145.

This is some kind of wasteland next to a building in Austin.

This is the big stadium at Texas.

This is the brand new Lexus that one of their aquatic team members was driving. I wonder if all the aquatic team members have Lexuses.

This is the state capitol building. It's really big.

We had some time to kill, so we went to Walmart to see this truck. Walmarts are all the same.

We went to play trivia at Kahuna's Tiki Hut. It was a pretty cool place. It was taco night and apparently if you order potato skins they think it means pulled pork sliders. The competition was ok, and Weenie and the Butt finished in first place and were awarded the third place gift card. This is a giant fan on the ceiling. It was like 30 feet in diameter. I think its some type of escape machine for Kahuna.

This is the back of the trivia sheet. There are only two places to playing Austin.

This is the front of the trivia sheet. It's the same two places on the same nights.

The next day we left San Antonio to go to Roswell, New Mexico to try and find some Aliens. Brad looks excited. Maybe he's going home?

It was a long drive and in between naps, games of solitaire, and texting Jodye, I saw some strange things. This is a turbine. There were like 200 of them. they are huge.

I saw a truck filled with little green...

Watermelons.
We made it to this rest area in New Mexico that resembles Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru's moisture farm on Tattoine from Star Wars.

Brad takes a break from driving and sits at the futuristic picnic table.

We made it to Roswell. It's an interesting place. Everything has an Alien theme or something odd to it, like the entire town was run by the owner of a comic book store. This car was at Farley's Restaurant.

We went to this gift shop to purchase some of their goods.

That brings us to BRAD'S HOOK-UP OF THE NIGHT! She was mean, green, and inflatable. She told him that she was only here for one night to repopulate her species. He said she was out of this world.

We went to the alien museum and saw many things. Spaceships and Spacedust.

Testing dummies that conspiracy theorists say the army used to cover up the Roswell Incident.

Alien Autopsy

Disturbing Artwork

Another Alien Autopsy

Even though we didn't see any real proof of Alien life, we headed off into the sunset to Albuquerque to find better hotels.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot. So Brad's favorite restaurant is Blimpie. Yeah that's right. Blimpie, the sub shop. So we've been trying to find one and so far been unacceptable. The GPS has a bunch of false Blimpies in it as does the mao function on iphone. Even the Blimpie website isn't 100% accurate. This drives Brad insane. Yesterday, before we went to the Alamo, we went on a Blimpie hunt using the GPS. When this backfires, it's the best because it tells you it's there and it isn't. It's ususally some shopping plaza and Brad drives around and tries to find it. So yesterday, I decide to start video taping it. It's excellent. After he made me shut it off, he starts to theorize about if any Blimpies actually exist, or if we even exist. It's great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urhH8VKHEaw