Our Trip to Machu Picchu!

I took this picture at our basecamp at Soraypampa, Peru roughly 3,800 meters up in the Andes Mountains.  After completing the first days 7 hour hike in the lead group I see a bright light of confidence and accomplishment in my eyes.  Day 2 would destroy that light like a waterfall crushing the faint light of a candle.  After “sleeping” through rough winds, cold temperatures and a choir of wild dogs; the banging on our tent at  5 AM wasn’t the best wake up call I have ever had.  This was the start of the most challenging day of my life.  Fighting altitude, rough terrain and fatigue I would eventually reach the height of our trek 15,220 ft…before lunch;  A grueling 4 hour hike up over 3,000 feet in a matter of hours.  As I passed another adventurer up the trail he said something to me I would never forget.  He was much older than me and he looked at me through tired yet excitedly hopeful eyes and said “Have you ever had so much fun being miserable?” It was a quote that I will always remember because I never want to forget that the things in life worth striving for often require the most challenging journeys.  Learning to love the journey is what Events & Adventures is all about every single day.


Reid from our Houston Club was the Staff Member on this Trip. All of our Trips are open to members from any of our Clubs. 

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Its Pumpkin Carving Time!

Who doesn't love carving Pumpkins! Check out the Pumpkins that our Members Carved at our 

Pumpkin 

Carving Event!

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An AMAZING Weekend!

What a fun weekend, sure every weekend we have lots of fun things but some weekends the stars just seem to align. We started off the weekend with bowling.  I know on paper bowling may sound just ok, but it gets really fun when you have a big bunch of friends altogether and everyone is eating pizza and having a goodtime. We all cheered when one of us would get a strike and joked when we got gutter balls (which happened more than we all wanted).   It was also a Members Meeting and it was great to hear the feedback from everyone about what folks might want to do for the upcoming snow season as well as other activities or performances everyone is excited about … Nutcracker, Spamalot, overnight events and others.

Saturday we met at the club house in Bellevue bright and early for coffee and donuts (some of us eating more donuts than I should have) and hopping on the party bus to The Leavenworth Oktoberfest.  Yes that is me in lederhosen!  And yes that is a yodeling pickle in my pocket.  (I’m not sure why … It just seemed like the thing to have).  It’s so true there is no better Oktoberfest this side of Germany than the Leavenworth Oktoberfest. We left Bellevue around 10AM and didn’t get back till about 10PM





Can you believe that a few members that went on the party bus got up the next morning and made it to the Federal Way park-n-ride by 8:30AM to go SKYDIVING!  We had around 10 members carpool down to Toledo WA and jump out of a plane.    So in hindsight I think it is true that Bowling + Oktoberfest Party Bus & Skydiving will make a great weekend.

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Seattle Ghost Tour!

It was a lot of fun doing a ghost tour in downtown Seattle on Friday the 13th . I found out about a  lot of cool historical facts of old Seattle and some scandalous stuff as well that happened where I walk every day.  We got to take a boat over to Blake Island and experience Tillicum Village (The Native American meal and show ) The baked Salmon was wonderful! I guess you could say we had a lot of fun enjoying Seattle History recently (if only school was this much fun)!

CycleSaloon!

The CycleSaloon Event we did last Friday was so much fun!

Just try to imagine 16 folks pedaling this crazy thing down the streets of Ballard (or just look at this picture).  Yes! we all pedaled this to 3 local hot spots in the Ballard area, Stopping and running in for a drink or a quick rest and then pedaling off to the next stop. And the Driver gave us an  bounce and added another stop at the last moment. It was not as hard as it might look when everyone is pedaling.  Fun Fact: So apparently these 16 person bike thingies started in Amsterdam and became a big hit in many of the flat cities in Europe.   Flat because you really don’t want to try moving these up hills, though going down hills would be just fine. Tracy (The owner of Cyclesaloon) brought two of them to Seattle a short time ago and says she’s been very busy and everyone had a good time, We sure did!

Rolling with the punches

Some folks have asked if the Government Shutdown have impacted us. Well we had planned to go on a hike to the Mt. Rainer National Park this last Saturday, but with the park closed we had to roll with the punches and move to another location for our hike. We picked another hike also in the south end. In a State park “Dash Point”.  We actually start just outside the park and to come into the eastern end of the parks trails. This gave us a great start through some wooden ravines and crossing back and forth over a wonderful smaller creek before finally bringing us out to the Puget Sound.  It turned out to be a really nice day for a hike.

It’s odd. Even with all the fun events coming up in the rest of this month like: Bowling, Oktoberfest party bus, Skydiving and The flashlight Corn Maze I can’t stop thinking about the main event of the season…  E&A’s Awesome Rockin’ Halloween Party on the 26th.  I’m not going to give away the costume I’m planning on wearing, but I can say the lederhosen I’m wearing for the Oktoberfest Party Bus will not be making a repeat performance at the Halloween party.

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Renton’s Oktoberfest was a Kick!

There was a few of us that got dressed up in lederhosen and we all had a great time. We had  reserved seating up front by the stage and got there in time to see the Mayor open the ceremonial keg. The promoters wanted to thank E&A for coming and they gave all of us and extra token for food or drink. An added plus we didn’t expect.  Some of our members even got on the mechanical bull that was out in the courtyard … But that’s another story.

All in all  it was a great event and a great warm up for the Big Leavenworth Oktoberfest Party Bus.

Last night we got to see the new Justin Timberlake / Ben Affleck movie Runner Runner, We are lucky that we get to see all kinds of  big studio movies before they are released and we get to see them for FREE! Last night was one of the reasons it’s a nice bonus. While I would not have mad if I had to have paid to see that film I’m very glad I didn’t. If I was on a plane and had 3 movies to watch, It would likely be the 3^rd.  But somehow even with that we all had fun. Either chatting about how we liked or didn’t like it and knowing we got to see it before the rest of the public.

 

While the Nov. calendar will be out in full on Oct. 15^th if you check it out now you’ll see a few events. The over the top Whistler ski trip (Not just for skiers) and also the Opening night premier and reception of the Hunger Games II in IMAX.  We are going to the movies in style.  We have up to 100 tickets to see this blockbuster film in Seattle best IMAX theater on opening night with a reception after where your first drink and snacks are complimentary.

There is always something fun and new on the calendar.

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