Our Alaskan vacation is nearing the end, but we are still staying in the “I Can See Russia From My House” state for a few more days.  So that means that today those of you at Kingsfield will be jamming with Colton again!  Today for me, though, offers a couple firsts.

In the morning we are hitting up the Big Wild Life Runs (giggle) 5K in downtown Anchorage.  I have never done a run (although we are gonna walk) like this before and I have never had the desire to do so.  But, for some reason my wife has a run like this on her Bucket List so we are gonna get it knocked out with a bunch of family!  Then after we have settled our Lance Armstrong (minus the bike) adrenalin down we will be heading out to Alyeska for our first night away from our 4 1/2 month old daughter.  It will be weird not having her around for that long and we will definitely miss her a lot, but it will be great to get some time away and to ourselves.  Doesn’t hurt that Alyeska is beautiful and we might get to touch a glacier.

So since I am gone again from the normal Sunday morning at church, here is a little bit of the expected soundtrack to my Alaskan Sunday.

All Manner Of Disney Songs (because that’s how my family rolls)
Spamalot (if my sister, Reagan, goes on the 5K with us)
Bon Jovi (pretty much a staple)
Foo Fighters (if we actually run some of the 5K)
John Mayer’s Album Battle Studies  (because that’s the only CD that’s been in my wife’s car for months now and I am not sure what a road trip would be without it now)

Well, it looks like the race is not near as close as I expected it to be.  I asked for your opinions about my birthday present and you came through for me.  75% of you said that I should be smart with my gift and get something that keeps on giving (outside of getting the Spamalot songs stuck in my head).  So I guess this week I will be turning 29 and now have to get the more grown up gifts.  (Maybe I can find some really cheap Spamalot tickets anyway.)  CD/MP3/AUX Player it is.  Anyone have any good suggestions?  I don’t want to spend much money on it.

Thanks for helping me pick out my birthday gift!  You all are the best blog readers I could ever ask for!

PS – Thanks for not giving me Fireproof for my birthday…

Gone are the days that we have all our friends over to our house or to Chuck E. Cheese’s for a birthday party where they all bring numerous gifts of G.I. Joe’s, Transformers, LEGOs, and MicroMachines.  That’s too bad.  That would be amazing!  But, apparently as we get older we don’t do those things any more.  Yeah, we still get all our friends together and have cake or some other sort of dessert, but we generally just go to a restaurant or do something else that our younger selves would have been bored out of their minds doing.  And with this change you start having to make decisions about your birthday gifts instead of just which present do I open first.

Well, my birthday is coming up next week and I am having to make one of those decisions.  I am struggling with it right now so I need your help.  For about the same price I have a couple options that I haven’t been able to choose between.

1. Spamalot – For those of you that don’t know what Spamalot is let me tell you that it is the best thing to come out of Broadway in the past…well…ever!  The guys of Monty Python have created a Broadway show out of the movie Monty Python And The Holy Grail.  I actually went to see it last year and I know from experience that it is insanely funny and amazing.
2. CD/MP3/Aux Player for my Jeep – This is not too difficult to explain.  Everyone has one.  Except me.  My Jeep has a cassette player and it no longer works.  Bummer.  So I have the radio and that is it.  It is illegal (I believe) to have both earbuds in while driving so I need to do something, right?

Both of these options have immediate gratification, but Spamalot has the gratification for the night (and then the lasting memory in my head).  The CD player will be great to have in the car for a long time coming.  Spamalot will be much better over the course of a shorter period of time while the CD player will be good for a longer period.

So you tell me!  Which one do I choose!?

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