Happy Birthday Bill!

The last couple of days have been nice and relaxing. We had a lazy Monday morning and Bill, dad, and I worked on the Awesome-mobile Monday afternoon. For those who don't know what an Awesome-mobile is:

Awesome-mobile on the service rack

Check out the photo gallery for some pictures and test videos including the video where it all went wrong. Okay, the video didn't capture the mayhem cause I had to take off down the street. Basically, the braking system blew out which in turn locked the throttle wide open. Bill ended up with a gash on his ankle and the battery box on the Awesome-mobile is a little worse for the wear. I think we're going to take another look at it today. Monday night Beth's parents came over and Bill fixed some Chinese dishes - honey ginger pork and sweet & sour chicken. Quite tasty.

Tuesday was Bill's birthday! He got Hot Wheels from Beth and Liam so we spent the morning playing with those. The culmination of the morning's work was this video - just watch and enjoy the engineering. Bill and I attempted to go mountain biking, but after a short bit his crank shaft started to get loose so we had to head back to the car. It finally fell off about a half mile from the car so the last bit was fun. Click here to view our trek on RunKeeper. We saw a couple of kangaroos along the way too (video). We came back to the house and fixed up the bike then headed on a ride around the lake near the house instead. It was a fun ride and I got some nice pictures.

Camera was dying and we weren't sure if it was going to cut our heads off of the picture

After the ride, we headed to the grocery store to pick up some food for Bill's birthday dinner - a barbeque of beef, chicken, pork, and kangaroo. Add in some sweet potato, corn, and a caramel cake and we had a great dinner. It was nice that my parents and I were all around for Bill's birthday.

Lighting the barbeque


Blowing out the candles

For more on the last couple of days, check out the full picture gallery.

We're headed to the coast today and I'll be without internet until we get back on Sunday. I hear my iPhone will work so I may continue micro-blogging on Twitter, but these posts will most likely stop until I get back. If I get a chance to put up pictures along the way I will.

I hope you all make it a great rest of the week and weekend. I know I will!