Look At How Flaming We Are
by Adam & Lara on 02/07/11
Speaking of flaming, great job Packers. All you Packers fans out there deserved the exciting SuperBowl victory. We had the pleasure of hosting a classic American-style SuperBowl party, complete with buffalo wings, 7-layer dip and a room full of Kiwis, Brits, Irish and South Africans. Let me tell you, it was just like the real deal, 19-inch TV and all. At some point we'll upload the pictures, but right now we're on dial-up speed since we've used our bandwidth allotment for the month, which costs a full-day's wage. Needless to say, we're not at all preoccupied or enraged by it.
In other news, it's worth noting that Adam and Lara now work at the same place. We've been doin' it (and by doin' it I mean serving customers (and by serving customers I mean serving our own lusty passion for doin' it)) there since December. It goes without saying that every customer and employee of Flame Bar and Grill comes in hungry and leaves full of good feelings, and by good feelings I mean roofie colladas.
Adam is the barman and Lara is a waitress, giving their relationship a completely different dynamic when they're at work. Specifically, Adam has to always listen to what Lara says. It's a pretty hard job.
The Lady Bunch
by Adam & Lara on 02/01/11
The Bloomington PRIDE Film Festival (or Bloomy-Movie-Lezzie-Fezzie) was this past week and the Annas (for the uninitiated, that's Adam's sister Anna and her fiance Anna) submitted a video. The video was submitted in the video shoot-out category, where all films had to be 3 minutes long, relate to the festival's theme and contain a specified prop and script line. The prop was a quilt, the line was "blood is thicker than water," and the theme was "Family... it's all relative," all of which are exceptionally gay. Almost as gay as Anna's and Anna's video - The Lady Bunch - which took home the 1st place prize in their category. See if you can spot the prop, the line, and all of the lesbian stereotypes!
The Lady Bunch from Anna S on Vimeo.
Congrats Annas for your win, and for not squishing any cute little baby animals wearing people clothes in the filming of your movie.
Milford Track
by Adam & Lara on 01/26/11
It was only a matter of time before Adam and Lara made national news. I mean, come on, we hiked the Milford Track with a professional baseball player. To you Garrett Olson is just a Seattle closer with a promising career ahead of him. But to us he's a hiking buddy, bff, and our ticket to national stardom (read where he talks about people he met along the way).
Anywho, back in November Adam and Lara walked the 4-day 33-mile Milford Track, which according to the consensus of the educated masses is the most famous hike in New Zealand and often called "the finest walk in the world." Most readers would be impressed by this, but since Wikipedia evidently has faulty information about pre-National-League 1870's St. Louis baseball, I know that all you show-me-state Missourians out there are currently raising an eyebrow and saying "the thing is, anybody can go onto Wikipedia and say whatever the hell they want." For that reason we've decided to post pictures of (almost) every mile of the trail to prove the trail's beauty and splendor.
Mile 1 was fun.
Mile 2 was fun too.
Mile 3 was thumbs up all the way!
Mile 4 was cool and classy with a Montell Jordan sort of look.
I got mile 5 on it.
Mile 6 was tasty.
Mile 7 was tempting.
Mile 9 was happy as a clam!
Mile 11 was sad.
Mile 12 was all stuck up.
Mile 13 was retarded.
Mile 14 threw them bows.
Mile 18 was a load of crap on our backs.
Mile 19 was cuddly.
Mile 20 was an intoxicating libation.
Mile 21 was just for looks.
Mile 22 was not a crook.
Mile 23 was off the hook.
Mile 25 was schlumpy.
Mile 26 was slanty.
Mile 27 was easy-peasy.
Mile 28 was squeezy-teazy.
Mile 29 was in the rubble.
Mile 30 was double trouble.
Mile 31 refused Adam for a date.
Mile 32 was Lara's best mate.
I guess dat's aight.
Ben Lomond
by Adam & Lara on 01/25/11
Last week Adam and Lara climbed Ben Lomond, a mountain near Queenstown that is 1748 meters (5,735 feet) tall. Queenstown itself is 357 meters above sea level, meaning that the total climb was 1391 meters (4564 feet). Adam and Lara completed the climb in 7 hours, which is a testament to their athletic prowess, determination and above average leg length. To think that some pansies take a gondola up the first part of this mountain is despicable.
The one on the right makes you bigger and the one on the left makes you smaller. Both make you vomit uncontrollably.
3/4 of the way up you hit a flat saddle area that gives you a chance to rest and shit your pants while you look at the remaining trail.
The view from the top. Boom.
The view looking the other way. Double boom.
Per the usual, Adam and Lara managed to erase all dignity from this endeavor by doing stretches to 90's dance music when they got home.
'Merikuh in a Box
by Adam & Lara on 01/16/11
#100
by Adam & Lara on 01/08/11
Happy New Year, everybody. This is the 100th installment of andnowthisishappening.com.
The Badgers lost the Rose Bowl on January 1st, so we can take solace in the fact that the worst thing to happen in 2011 already happened. It's all up from here.
Anyways, we were thinking of doing something crazy (perhaps even regrettable?) for our 100th post, but we totally pussed out. Instead Adam just got this giant sleeve tattoo:
That's a rainbow trout jumping out of Lake Tekapo with Mount Cook in the background. It was either this or a heart with "Mom" inside it.
The trout's name is Travis and he's angry.
The tattoo goes around the entire inside of Adam's arm and was not painful whatsoever in case you were wondering.
Here is the tattoo artist - a German guy named Elvis who does Japanese style tattoos in New Zealand.
Best of Luke & Anne - Glacier Hike
by Adam & Lara on 12/28/10
It's three days after Christmas and we're finally done cleaning our apartment. We haven't really had anything else to do since it's been raining nonstop for the last week (which sped up the cleanup by washing all the chocolate and ice cream off the balcony). Now let's switch gears to something interesting, like us climbing up a giant f*cking glacier.
First off, they kitted us out in all sorts of gnarly gear: boots, jackets, crampons, and the gnarliest of them all, fanny packs.
We were also provided with small sized ice picks which made Luke look like the Alton Giant, Robert Wadlow. Luke is on the left.
Adam spent most of his time waiting for Lara because he got scared when he was all by himself.
Not plummeting to your death is easy-peasy on a glacier - just hold onto this rope!
Oh haaay, just climbin' through an ice cave, go Cowboys!
The lower portion of the glacier is covered in dirt and morraine and is known to professional climbers as the "Dirty Souff."
Once Lara realized that the rest of us had cameras she started practicing her sexy glacial crevasse pose.
Luke may or may not have pooped himself during the vertical portion of the climb.
Adam couldn't help but be an extreme badass.
It was just like Christmas in Minnesota, minus the being drunk part.
The lovable, forever down-trodden Toby laments to the hiking party about his failed marriage.
Jager Bombs!
Melly Kleemah!
by Adam & Lara on 12/25/10
Adam's sister Anna and her fiance Anna got a Dairy Queen ice cream cake for Christmas with the message "Melly Kleemah" written on it in frosting. We're not sure what that means, but it clearly made them extremely happy:
The laser beam background might lead you to believe that this picture is from the future, but believe us - this picture is extremely here and now.
In New Zealand people wear ridiculous wigs on Christmas. Well, not all people. But drunk people do.
It sucks to move into a new place and find out that your flatmates like to cook enormous feasts and mix professional quality cocktails on their days off.
Merry Christmas to all of you. Your present is going to arrive on February 24th, 2011 at San Francisco International Airport, and would enjoy staying on your couch for 1-6 weeks.
Munchin' on Some Grindage
by Adam & Lara on 12/20/10
The Cirkovics have been gone now for over a week, and our lazy asses are still trying to upload all of the pictures from their visit. We'll give you top moments post at some point, but for now you should just slam another Vodka-Red-Bull and join this sweaty family-on-family grindfest:
Everybody had a fantastic time!
'Cept this douche.
