07/05/07 - Flying to Minnesota, hanging out with Topaz, Wacko, and Wacko's girlfriend Emily

This is what I get for buying the cheap flight

My boading pass

It was rainy in Boston

The view from my seat: 4D on a Boeing 717

That's a big engine

A plane taking off

Above the rain!

Clouds

Puffy clouds

Some other clouds

Hey look, clouds!

You can see the camera in the reflection

There are clouds over there too

The wing and the sun

We were still climbing at this point

Some neato cloud structure in the distance

Looking down on the rain

Yep.. clouds

A hole in the clouds!

The flight attendant said I could use my GPS. Which makes sense since it doesn't transmit anything

I thought we were near Worcester... just a bit off

A smoke stack!

Cruising altitude! For some reason we never really approaced the typical cruising speed of 570 mph

A coastline on one of the great lakes

A marina?

So many sqaures!

Past New York now..

Fields

A boat!

Milwaukee approaches

Lots of boats

A school

A nice coastline on Lake Michigan

Coastline

Some houses

It's amazing how well you can see stuff on the final approach and landing

A runway

The terminal

FedEx!

My flight is the third from the top

Inside a jet engine

The back of an airplane

See? Milwuakee

My airplane, a CRJ200

People getting off a similar airplane

I better not get on the wrong plane

This plane has smaller jets

A guy in the baggage area

A woman loading food onto the plane

Bringing a bridge thing up to my plane

Note the cool heat waves behind the jet

Some prop plane takes off

More jet heat waves

This guy gave me a look as I took all these pictures

Getting on the plane

I hope these engines work

I was all the way in the back

The view from my seat

The wing

Good to know

The view from my seat.. again!

Button Man is waving at me

See? I told you it was a CRJ200

Apparently you can only get off the plane if it lands correctly..

A piece of my Professor's Cube fell under the chair and it took me like 15 minutes to get

Ooo, baggage carousel

It's like they read my mind

See? Minnesota

Now this is something new...

Baggage carousel!

Tilted..

My bag found me!

The first picture I take of Wacko since 2002 and what's he doing?

Wacko's got a Wiimote and he knows how to use it

Start by pointing up..

Emily's turn

Topaz gets into bowling

Wacko's got a nice camera

He thinks he's cool

Wacko on a hillside

Emily goes to check out the vent Wacko's looking at

Wacko and Emily lift the grate up

He wanted me to crawl down there. Needless to say, his efforts were futile

A waterfall

Some bridge

Smokestacks

A cool old mill

Gold Medal

The top of the building

One of Wacko's friends climbed up there

Nothing but the best

A bridge

The smokestacks from before but more zoomed out

Geese

Wacko looks at the ground

Wacko looks.. somewhere else

Cranes!

Emily snaps some shots while Wacko looks around

Wacko and the mill

Emily and Wacko pose in front of Gold Medal

Now it's my turn

Wacko took these shots

What's over there?

This shot came out great, just click it.

Emily looks around

Emily standing in front of Gold Medal

Emily standing in front of Gold Medal.. with slightly a different exposure

Emily takes a few pics

This is why you have to take sneaky pictures of Wacko

A nice pic of some grass

Wacko's back with his tripod

An awesome panorama of Gold Medal and the surrounding area

The bridge

Some plants with Gold Medal in the background

A similar shot

Emily takes some pictures of the waterfall

Now I take some pictures of the waterfall

I like how the post cuts the water in half

The post

I was way too close to the water

Looking down the water fall

With a longer exposure..

An even longer exposure! You can see how the bubbles blur

Wacko and Emily look across the water

Another great shot of Wacko and Emily

A water tower

A water tower and that Pillsbury sign

Gold Medal from a slightly different angle

An old support

This thing hasn't exactly withstood the test of time

Old bridge, new bridge?

Another big support

Wacko and Emily check out the bridge

With exposure to show the sky..

It's pretty corroded

Emily climbs up the side

Wacko looks around the base

Emily checks out the scenery

Rusty old support

A bolt

Wacko ventures out onto the "bridge"

Note the sign in the background

Wacko is a scofflaw

So is Emily

Now if this isn't a good desktop I don't know what is

Gold Medal Flour!

Another big sign

I want some blankets

Emily checks out this structure

Some gross moss

Wacko and Emily sneak behind this column thing

A messed up old building

A water outlet and some dripping

Same pic but.. sideways!

Wacko looks to see what Emily is doing

I told him "You're going to regret that picture!"

Neato ruins

Emily and Wacko get nearer the edge

What's over there?

Lots of moss where the dripping lands

Wacko's rented house in Minneapolis

OMG ANTS!!

So many ants!

There was a ridiculous amount of ants