Trips Around the World

Nevada

noreply@blogger.com (Vithar) — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:29:00 +0000

Soon, there will be a very long trip. Nevada for 4 months. That should be interesting.

noreply@blogger.com (Vithar) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:38:00 +0000

A taste of Some Pictures

noreply@blogger.com (Vithar) — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:03:00 +0000

So, a few of the photos from the photographer are online. There blog has a section for our event. We will see in time just what all we get from them, but these look great. For information purposes, and for google rating assistance, here is a link to there website. Its Erin Johnson Photography.

My friend who was along, also snapped some pics, you can see his here.

WeddingS

noreply@blogger.com (Vithar) — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:23:00 +0000

So I went and got married this weekend. I'll put up various photos and interesting tidbits about the event. Come back and check, there will be stuff here soon.

Great fun event, a wonderful bride and good friends and family...

Masha hard at work.

noreply@blogger.com (Vithar) — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:37:00 +0000

This process has so much paper work. Masha is busy trying to get her moms paperwork done. How sad it will be if her mom can't come. It shouldn't be a problem but its taking lots of Masha's time.

Forgetful

noreply@blogger.com (Vithar) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:45:00 +0000

I forgot to bring my camera this time. So what few pictures I take are with my phone, and the quality is marginal at best.

Today Masha and I went to the clinic and she had her cast removied. It was very interestig, and a little tramatic for Masha. This was a trama clinic, so every one there had a cast of some kind. We waited with a group of old people, with various boddy parts in casts, and 1 young boy. Masha joked that only old people, little boys, and Masha break things.

I wont go into detail of Masha's tramatic event, but it was very interesting to end up standing alone with a group of old Russians, chattering to me. I think I was getting advice? I just smilled and noded and they didn't seam to notice that I had no idea what they said. It seamed like a moment out of some strange comidy, these old people acting concerned with casts on there arms and legs. Very strange.

Every day here has been aboslutly perfect. Blue skys, light clowed cover or none. It rained one night, but as far as the daytime goes it has been absolutly perfect. Masha said this will be the hottest week of they year, and its maybe 80 degrees, but probably more like 75. I had to appoligis to her, virginia is colder in the winter and warmer in the summer... Even though the wether has been perfect, we have spent a total of maybe 1hr outside. Mostly masha can't get around so we go nowhere...

Still its a great time, and we are getting her things all packed away... Olga was displesed with me for the Superior Pack being dirty. It even had dog hairs, shame on me... After she cleaned it out, there was some dirt in the bottom and dried leaves. It was good to use. I guess now there is a little bit of northern minnesota dirt her in Russia...

Packing up Masha

noreply@blogger.com (Vithar) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:28:00 +0000

We are packing up Masha's things. We will need to make a second trip it seams. Olga is a packing master, and they are systimaticaly packing and documenting all things. I'm not much help except for things that are hard to reach or something needs holding.

MY Bag

noreply@blogger.com (Vithar) — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:07:00 +0000

I got to watch my bag load into the airplane. My seat is kind of in the back end of the plane.

Landed

noreply@blogger.com (Vithar) — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:57:00 +0000

This flight has to be one of the best ever. Having WiFi on the plan is amazing. I will definitly seek it out in future air travle.

In flight

noreply@blogger.com (Vithar) — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:45:00 +0000

I'm on my way to atlanta, and there is wifi on the plane :D

At the Airport, flying off to Russia agin.

noreply@blogger.com (Vithar) — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:38:00 +0000

I'm sitting at the airport, waiting to board my flight to atlanta so I can fly from there to Moscow. The woman at the ticket window scared the crap out of me. Here is a discription of what happened...

I'm waiting in line, finaly its my turn and I walk up to the little checkin computer. I swipe my passport and then enter my flight number. The computer says, I need "Special Handaling" So I try again, this time enteing my ticket number. Same message. So I wave over the woman, and show her. She asks where I'm travling, I tell her Atlanta then to Moscow. She informs me that its so they can check my Visa. I show it to her, and she starts pulling up infomraoitn on her computer. She asks me what my flight number is, so I tell her. She says "There is no Fligh 1565", so then she asked, where are you flying to again, I again tell her, Atlanta then to Moscow, she says, "hmmm, there is no flight 1565 to Atlanta, only 1997" So I hand her my printout of my ticket information. The date in the lower left is of the day I printed the information, so, July10th. She then says, to me "Oh, your flight was yesterday thats why I can't find the flight number..."

I staired at her in disbelife for a moment, then just said "No, its today at 11:20", I looked at the papers in ther hand, and I saw the place it said July 11th and pointed to it. She appoligesed and informed me that the flight number had been changed to 1997. She printed my tickets and everything was just fine.

For that one split moment I thought I had missed my flight.

Russia here I come again...

noreply@blogger.com (Vithar) — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:16:00 +0000

Its a few weeks away now, but my 3rd trip to Russia is comeing up. I will go the Ivanovo on July11th and return July18th. I will bring Masha back with me, so I'm very exited. There is no big events planned for this trip, just to go and help prepair her to come home with me. I'm sure we will find some entertaning things to do also.

Masha Comes

noreply@blogger.com (Vithar) — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:30:00 +0000

I just wanted a quick update to quel the rumers. Yes, Masha will be ariving. I will take another trip to Ivanovo, to help her pack, provide aditional lugage capasity, and to see her off from her home land. I will go July 11th, and we will return together on July 18th. So of course watch for more updates in July, and into the future, as I will list wedding plans and info here. Also, for the record, We will be going to both Nina's and Brandons weddings, so every one will have an opertunity to meet Masha.

noreply@blogger.com (Vithar) — Wed, 06 May 2009 02:51:00 +0000

Not sure why, but I enjoyed this graphety from Иваново.

The "Я не могу" is part of some thing that goes on past the picture and is not part of the alien.

I was just thinking how I had lots more pics to share, so I should through up some.

Seams like there was live music everywhere...

Floriday

noreply@blogger.com (Vithar) — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:34:00 +0000

So I have been in Lakeland Florida since Friday. We played in the national paintball tournament. I played yesterday and my squad took 30th out of 54 teams, this is much better than our 37 out of 42 last year. Our other squad made it to the final 4, and at this time it looks like they took 4th place. For only the second year of having a team these are very good results. Better than last year anyway.

I will get a few pictures from Ben (our photographer) to put up here. With it some more info about our event.

Cover the the MN Daily.

noreply@blogger.com (Vithar) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:13:00 +0000

So The press came out to one of our Paintball Team's practisis, and took some pics and asked questions. We made the cover of there School newspaper, which is one of the most cerculated print news sources in MN. The article is online here.

Here is a close up of the picture from the cover of the paper...

The press!!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Vithar) — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:36:00 +0000

The school paper came and took pics of us for the paper.

The MS 150

noreply@blogger.com (Vithar) — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:23:00 +0000

Once again I will ride int he MS150. I need to raise about $300 for this event, and hopefully with the help of my faithful readers I can raise more.
Click here to Donate.
It is a long bike ride, and for a good cause I am told. Thanks for any support...

Traffic

noreply@blogger.com (Vithar) — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:42:00 +0000

So I had an update about my traffice once befor. Here it is again for sng. Notice the spike from each trip. I like the level of sustained traffic after the seocnd trip...

The fail

noreply@blogger.com (Vithar) — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:36:00 +0000

Lolz

noreply@blogger.com (Vithar) — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:35:00 +0000

This is my now. A friend is trying to show me something with his BB, and has failed...

Lolz

My little Nephew

noreply@blogger.com (Vithar) — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:53:00 +0000

I took this picture of one of Megans ultrasounds yesterday. I just wanted to shair how cool it is.

noreply@blogger.com (Vithar) — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:42:00 +0000

With pictuers also...

Test

noreply@blogger.com (Vithar) — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:39:00 +0000

Phone to blog testing...

New Phone

noreply@blogger.com (Vithar) — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:25:00 +0000

I hate to have a new post, I really like the one thats at the top of the page. But we must move forward. I will keep this blog up to date on all of mine and masha's efforts. As we pass hurdles in the Imigration proces and draw closer to a wedding date. This will be the primary method if information distrabuiton.

I got a new phone. Its a HTC G1. Comanly called the Google phone. It is truly an amazing piece of technology. I have a strong feeling that I am now living in the future with this divice. I can take pictures and uplaod them strate from the phone. I'm working on intgrating that. If I get it done right, there will be single image posts from time to time strate from the phone, possibley some video to (but thats a little harder).

So every one knows about wikipidea and how much information is on it and available. Many of the articles have gelocation information in them. You don't see it when you read the article, but it places them in a location on google earth. Well with the G1, you can actualy have an augmented reality. It turns the camera on, and you look around like you are looking through the camera. It works in conjunction with the GPS in the phone and you can see icons floating over buildings then when you touch them on the screen (its a touch screen) it gives a small part of the wikipediea article. Its an app for turists, so when you are in some strange city you can look for interesting things about the city...

Picture taken RIGHT NOW, as I sit with Ryan in a coffee shop...