Bugs Palace!

Man does my skin sting. Went to a VW show today. (my first all VW show ever) and it was simply amazing. 300 Cars. All VW (except for a couple Porsche. I guess they were ok 🙂   ). Shannon, Donna, Alex and I headed up around lunchtime and took in all the sites. However I got the start of a nasty sunburn on the way there via the sunroof in the blazer, and finished the burn after walking around in the sun for 4 hours. Was great though. Seen some nice cars, got some good ideas, and ruled some options out. All in all a good time. Mom and Dad showed up a bit later and we walked through the show again. Just as good the second time. Then we all went for dinner at Green Acres in Fort Erie. I highly recommend this place. 7 people ate, couple beer, couple appatizers and it was still only 120$ tip included.  Pretty cheap if you ask me. And if you finish the entire meal, consider yourself a pig 🙂   Alex  🙂

Ahh well.. Im heading to bed. Im burnt, and burnt out. Sleep.

First off, big thanks go out to my buddy Aaron. He hooked me up with a spray can of the Arrival Blue Metallic paint which I’m considering painting my beetle if and when we ever get it that far. Paint is a weird thing. Alex and I painted a couple scraps of steel and it looked almost navy/black. I was certain the mixture must have been wrong. But then I took the piece with me to the dealership, and held it up to a truck, and it was dead on. I don’t get it at all. How can it look soooo great on the truck, but sooo dark in your hand. Long story short, its still my choice in colours, but I’m defiantly going to spend some more time looking around before I choose. This weekend is the Jitterbug car show in Niagara falls. 300-500 VW Beetles. I’m sure to get some colour ideas there.

I spent some time this week chopping out crappy patches the previous bug owners had. Word of advice, a piece of tin, 3 different screws, and a boat load of tar does NOT equal proper patches. Idiots. So i got to cutting, and Alex started patching the freshly cut holes. Quite nicely i might add. 2 months and a couple days till the jack and jill. Getting down to the crunch time now. Cross your fingers we will be able to get it into the paint shop soon. They will likely need 2-3 weeks with the car in the paint shop, so thats gonna leave us even tighter for time.

One more day of work for this week, and finally it’s over. Going to be tied up for several hours Saturday for Shannons brothers birthday. Hopefully Alex and I can spend time on the car Saturday afternoon. Will have to wait and see.

Sleep

Happy Fathers day to all the Fathers out there. Especially mine. Hope you had a good one even though you had to go to work. Thems the breaks I guess. Had a good time despite some sad circumstances surrounding a good friend of my cousins. I won’t go into details, but please pray for her and her family, as she can use all the help she can in these tough times. This kid has spunk, and if anyone can pull through it, she can.

82 More days till the Wedding. Haven’t done too much since my last update. Started gathering the mailing addresses, so we can hopefully get them mailed out in the next 5-7 days.

Not much news on the bug as of late. Little tinkering here and there, but definately no major milestones to speak of. Trucks about the same. Nothing new there, aside from the sparkly clean wash job it got from my sweety. I don’t know I liked the looks of better:  the finished sparkly truck, or Shannon washing it :-). Thanks again.

Oh, pictures from Fathers day get together at the Shoups’ can be found HERE. Thanks for the cluck cluck 🙂

Thats it for tonight. Hopefully be back with some more info later this week. Gotta go soak my toe. In case your wonderring, yes, it does hurt to kick the bottom of a door with sandals on. I split my toe nail in 2 and its still bleeding a day and a half later