Happy Birthday Marines

Yut, yut!  So the Marine Corps’ birthday isn’t until November 10 but we celebrated it early this year.  We had our birthday ball on Saturday and it was a great time!

Attack of the killer jellyfish

Well maybe “killer jellyfish” is a bit of an exaggeration considering they were already dead but if they had been alive… So Mere and I headed down to the beach for the fourth consecutive weekend (I wonder what our parents have been doing in the 40 degree Minnesota weather) and there were tons of these…

A weekend on the Blackwater

To make a short story long… We had a tent, a great tent in fact, but one of the seams blew out on it so it stopped being great in a hurry.  Sent the tent back to Mountain Hardwear and they sent us a newer and even better tent (hooray!).  Ever since the replacement found…

Washington and the crabs

So we took a brief trip out to Washington DC for Labor Day.  We spent a little time in Cumberland, MD, and then headed to the city for a few days.  It was nice to get back to one of our favorite cities.  We both have fond memories from DC when I was stationed in…

Wine Country

The pictures are a few days old as this is a bit of a re-post from wiktorcase.com, but I thought I’d throw some of my photos from our adventure in Napa / Sonoma.  Meredith, Mike, Heather, and I drove up from Santa Cruz and did a food and wine pairing at the Buena Vista Winery…

Hello World.

So big news I suppose.  New website for “the Wiktors.”  Rather than posting all of our things onto wiktorcase.com, Meredith and I got ourselves our own domain.  The intent of wiktorcase.com was to be a “family” website where everyone posted news of sorts.  That hasn’t quite happened but perhaps this will spur some change.  With…