Happy Birthday... to me!

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Parry Sound, Canada with Paul



Alright now, it's my 25th birthday today... hahahahaha
Yeah, I'm a quarter of a century old today, another step closer to the deadline, and another step younger inside. I can no longer pass for a young punk or any of that... people actually start taking me really serious now.

Gonna live it up for a little while today and enjoy the sunshine and breeze and my Starbucks cofffee with my Mama here in Ohio.

I'm leaving for Charlotte on Monday, then flying to California on the 5th from there, where my van is waiting patiently for me in Southern Cal, where it will be employed again. I'll be in So Cal through September, then I will make the long trek east, Charlotte bound.
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Music Quotes time:

"I was so much older then. I'm younger than that now." Bob Dylan - I'm younger than that now

"25 years and my life is still; trying to get up that great big hill of hope... for a destination." 4 Non Blondes - What's up

"I have run, I have crawled, I have scaled these city walls, but I still haven't found what I'm looking for." U2 - I still haven't found what i'm looking for

"When love comes to town I'm gonna jump that train.
When loves comes to town I'm gonna catch that plane.
Maybe I was wrong to ever let you down, but I did what I did before love came to town." U2 - When love comes to town

"It's times like these you learn to live again.
It's times like these you give and give again.
It's times like these you learn to love again.
It's times like these time and time again." Foo Fighter - Times like these

"Let's get off this. Let's get on with it. If you wanna change the world shut your mouth and start this minute." Cracker - Get off this

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So I took a trip to Canada with my cousin Paul (Dad's sister's son) who just got out of basic training for the Marines. We had the time up at this cabin on a tiny island that we had to take a boat to. While there I hiked, trained, kayaked, swam, played the pipes on the beach, bathed in the clear waters (which was actually pumped up to the cabin and used for tap water as well), cliff jumped a 50-foot cliff, water-tubed (I've only water-skied once, so I wasn't really willing after being thrashed around on the water tube - see video - glad they enjoyed it!) On top of that they had a lot of games around, cornhole (definitely an Ohio game), mini table tennis (used one of the boards for the windows on a table top with a net), chess (Devon took me to school. Thanks Devon.)

Oh yeah, and Paul and I stopped in to check out Niagara Falls along the way (see pics.) We drove up in my ol' Bimmer, in which Paul insisted we have the top down the entire way... 12 hours, that is (check my hair out to prove it.) We also ate fudge and dined at none other than Don Cherry's (see pic.)





Better sign off now since they say a tornado is coming...

~ Nate