It is finished!

Oh, just an update, since Kayleen has already decided to go on her trip, I'm not going to finish up the remaining 14 reasons she should not go. That is all people, you may return to your lives.

Well I have finished my puzzle!!! The box says it has 902 pieces but unfortunately mine only had 901. (And I will refuse to do any frowny faces.)
I think Kayleen is worried about what I will be up to this weekend without her, she already bought another 3-D puzzle of a castle. I think I will let her do more of the work on this one because I think I did more on the Empire State Building than she did. (She may deny it but I'm pretty sure I did.)

Also, we went to Gas Works Park for the 4th of July. Here is a video of the Finale.

It was an amazing show, although they only had the one patriotic song during the pyrotechnic demonstration.

And lastly, today I rode my bike into work. Boy oh boy, was that an experience. I'm about 10 miles from where I work and pretty much all of it is on a bike trail, which is really nice. The ride into work took me an hour, mind you I stopped a few times at trail junctions to make sure I was going the right way and also I'm on a mountain bike, not really a good speed bike. Well, when I got to work I felt fine, although my hands had a bit of a burn on them. I thought that my legs would have been killing me but I had no pain from them. It wasn't until an hour before I was done with work that my keester (my bum) started to hurt. I thought, uh oh, this may hurt on the ride back. Unfortunately for me, I was right. The ride back took me an hour twenty and was very painful. I don't think I will elaborate on it any more, it's kind of crude.

(But riding on my bike on the way back, I was thinking, why do people say I going to drive somewhere, but when talking about bikes, they say they are going to ride them. If someone does say they are going to ride in the car, it is very clear that they do not plan on driving. Do people who ride their bikes actually not control them? Are they riding some sort of bike that controls where they are going? Where do you get these sort of contraptions? I don't know, like I was saying, it had me thinking.)

Puzzle Impossible

Here is the beautiful birthday girl

I should probably get the most important thing over with, and that is wishing my wife a very happy golden birthday! The good news or us was that the birthday girl felt good for most of the day but now she doesn't and is laying down. I even made cake for her and now I'm going to have to eat it all by myself. Well, maybe not. Since it s her cake I should probably wait for her so she can have a few bites.

As for the puzzle impossible, Kayleen and I bought a 3D puzzle of the Empire State Building. After we got it home and began sorting the puzzle we realized that we had just paid good money on something that was going to be very frustrating, more than it's going to be fun. The good news is that we made a decent attempt at it today and we are actually starting to make some progress. Since we don't have to build a foundation and with 101 floors, if we continue with one story a day, we will have this thing done in 101 days. (That was some hard math.) Well, compared to the actual construction of the building, it's pretty good. I mean, the guys that constructed it didn't have to sort through almost 1000 pieces to find two that go together. Plus there were more than two people working on it. My wife is helping but she keeps flaking out on me claiming that her morning sickness is acting up. (I don't think any women who read this blog like me at all. My choice I guess is to stop with my comments and have my wife be mad at me for trying to get women to not hate my blog or I could continue the comments and have my wife be mad at me for claiming she's faking it. It's a lose-lose situation. Not very uncommon for husbands.) Although, I think I am starting to obsess about it more so it may not take that many day to complete it.

Here is the puzzl all laid out


Here is the base done and the first floor laid out on the box