Happy Birthday Rick

Rick's Snowboarding Bachelor Party
Originally uploaded by Rob Wooldridge.

...and Happy Birthday America!
Both were born on the Fourth of July. Rick served his country, too, as have most of my friends. It's ironic how much freedom we had to give up in order to serve the cause of defending others' freedoms. Somebody has to do it, I suppose it might as well be me.
Rick chose to serve in the Air Force, but I rarely hold that against him. (lies, all lies)
This picture is from Rick's bachelor party at Tahoe last year. from right to left, it's Justin, Rick, and me. Cali doesn't know this, but Rick purposely guided their wedding plans so that we could have a bachelor party in the wintertime with snowboarding, gambling, and drinking. Well, I guess you can do two of those in the summertime, but the snowboarding part was key.
If you check out my flickr website, you can see my favorite picture of Rick. It's his birthday, so I'm not going to post that picture here... out of respect for his special day.
here's a little hint: we made buttons out of my favorite picture and all the participants at his bachelor party wore them.