Farewell to summer

At the beginning of the month, Jim and I had spent some time in Algonac to visit the Moving Vietnam Memorial Wall. The following week we went back for Ericka's bbq party and the Algonac boat race, then we finished the night by attending one of Jimmy's friends poker run party.

in front of the Moving Vietnam WallThe "missing man" table....very touching
the Korean flag from the moving hands-on war museum
our cute niece Ericka and her finance Jacob

Ericka's bbq in Algonac....crystal holding Sam and josh ( Jimmy's say that Sam is a mini Tnina)
Jimmy on his sister's big boat (wow, Soon Jimmy will be buying a boat just like this or maybe, even bigger!) ...jimmy added this comment

me and Sam

Before aunt Margie and uncle Jack travel back to Florida for the winter, their kids threw them a wonderful 50th wedding anniversary party. It was a great Shadik party, there was an abundance amount of food and drinks, and as always it is wonderful to catch up with the growing Shadik family.

The Browns w/ aunt Margie and uncle Jack

Jim and I also had the opportunity to celebrate Jeff's big 4-0 surprise birthday party in August. it was so much fun to see the Jeff's face as we all screamed "surprise". I think everybody had a great time and the live music was amazing.....this guy did the best Jimi Hendrix I had ever seen. We finished the night off w/ dancing and swatting mosquito's....lol

we all getting the ready for the big surprise

Noel, Tracy, me, Darlene, and Michelle taking a break from dancing

the hostess w/ the mostess....Noel made a fabulous cake

The birthday boy and Jimmy

On labor day weekend, David came over and helped put up a privacy fence in our yard, later we had a wonderful porterhouse steak bbq w/ David, John, and Jen. We finished the night by partying w/ our new neighbors for their wedding anniversary party. The next day we lounged around the house watching movies, until we had to go to a bbq over our friends Debbie and Mike's house. Mike is a fabulous cook and we always enjoy his meals. After dinner we played several round of pokers and David end up winning 2 of the 3 tournaments and I won the other one. Nothing is better than that, friends, food , and poker....lol. On labor day, we had such beautiful weather...we decided to go on our boat and take a stroll down Detroit River. It was the first time Jen, John, and David been on our boat. It was a great day for a boat ride... the water wasn't too choppy and the weather was perfect. We stopped a Sinbad's for a quick lunch and headed back to land to finish the labor day festivities.

John and Jen

docking at the Sinbad's marina

me, David, and Jen cruising the Detroit River

me and captain Jim

Detroit from the water view....it's beautiful.

P.S. last night I got quad 5's playing LET IT RIDE at a Vegas tent....too bad i wasn't in Vegas, I would have won about a thousand dollar instead of $ 45 ...lol, still it was exciting.