DelMonaco

So this past weekend was quite busy. My Lady had a softball tournament (that I unfortunately was unable to attend) at UT Martin. She left last Wednesday and I didn't get to see her again until Sunday... I was starting to get withdrawals. But I was able to keep myself busy. Friday, I slept almost all afternoon. Saturday was eventful; I had to go to Chattanooga for my nieces second birthday, and on the way I got to pick my grandmother and spend some quality time with her. Then while at the party I was informed that I would get to be a special guest at the birthday party. Little did I know that it would entail wearing a big red fuzzy suit, with four fingered gloves and a big red fuzzy head. And if you can't guess who I was from this vague description, I was Elmo. Yes, I got to trump around in an Elmo costume, which quite frankly frightened the children more than it brought them joy. Alas it was still fun (for me at least).

I think Elmo should always wear BB.

Then Sunday rolled around and I was finally reunited with my Lady. I decided to make Sunday into a special date day starting with a wine tasting at DelMonaco Winery. 

DelMonaco

We both had an amazing time tasting wines and walking around the vineyard. We would have liked to gone on a longer tour but the weather wasn't cooperating with us. We wound up leaving with two bottles of their wine to enjoy with our dinner and desert. Next we went to the grocery store (which I know sounds like nothing special, but we really enjoy going together) and pick out the ingredients that would end up making one of the greatest things I have ever tasted. Then we sat down to dinner, we drank wine and enjoyed our food. Then we crawled into bed and watched How I Met Your Mother, until we both fell asleep. It was an amazing day.  







   

Summer Vacation!

With the Summer rolling around one thing sticks out in my mind... Vacation! I believe that everyone is entitled to at least one good break from this crazy world and be able to put your feet up and relax. Now being in the South there are may great places to take a trip... almost too many places. Basically I'm not sure where to vacation this Summer. I do know that I want to save up and take a nice trip with My Lady, I'm just a little fuzzy on our destination. We could hit up Orlando and check out Harry Potter World (btw My Lady and I believe that you are never too grown up to enjoy the simple pleasures of being a kid, hell we think of ourselves as just big kids that like to goof off). I hear Harry Potter World is magical... pun intended...

Who wouldn't want to go here?!

I also think going to Charleston would be a great trip. I hear there are tons of places to go see and boom your're right there on the beach. Plus there's historic Charleston.

King St.

Where ever we go it's going to be incredible! Where would you suggest we go vacation this Summer?
I'm open to anywhere in the South!

New Layout; New Month!

Okay so it's a little late on the whole new month... but this is my first post this month.
I hope you guys like the new layout. I decided to get back into Photoshop and have some fun.
I have found some blogs that have caught my attention and I think they are worthy of checking out.
Curating Styles is one I found from Kyoto Maiko, and it's a great read.
Back Down South, which I found from Curating Styles
The West Prep, (which surprised me that "prep" existed west of the Mississippi)
and Red Clay Soul, which I found from just surfing though random blogs.

I hope you have a great day and enjoy these blogs as much as I have.

Have a good day Bro!!

Pig Dinner!

Pig Dinner was this weekend.... and by God was it one hell of a Pig Dinner!

We all had fun Friday night hanging around the Fraternity House hanging out with graduates, hearing stories, and of course watching the pledges cook their pig. Then Saturday I got to spend some time with my father (who is also a Fiji) on his birthday. We went out to lunch and then we were going to go to the shooting range, however the weather was too inclement to enjoy shooting outdoors. So we instead went to a bar where we meet up with some of our brothers and enjoyed a few pitchers of beer.    

Bringing in the Pig!

Then of course Saturday night we had our cigar social and our annual Frank Norris Pig Dinner. The cigar social was awesome. All of my brothers (including grads) at the house smoking fine cigars in fine attire. I don't believe there are many things in this world that can beat good brotherhood. Then we had the dinner and we enjoyed some BBQ (it just made sense) 

Tradition 

Good times at my house

After dinner we adjourned back to my house where we played some games and got ready for the after party at the country club. Some of our lady friends were able to join us (excluding my girlfriend unfortunately), and we headed to the country club where we danced the night away!

I am already looking forward to Pig Dinner for next year. It is one of the few occasions when so many of our brothers can come together. I do have a couple of my pledge brothers graduating this year, and it will be sad to see them go. But I know they are off to do big things for themselves.

I know you are reading this Travis, you son of a bitch! I'm going to miss the hell out of you man. P!

I have had the pleasure of living with Travis for most of my undergraduate career, and the memories I have made living with this guy are too numerous to count. Like the time him and Hobbs shoved fireworks under my door, or the time we went to the creek to go fishing and caught craw fish instead (we didn't know how to cook them, but we did and it was bad), or our movie dates. lol. I wish you the best of luck Brother!

I know Ben doesn't follow my blog but you happen to see this I'm going to miss you too Brother. P!

        

 As you know as do all my Fiji Brothers, The South's the Limit!

Fraternity of the Year!

Way to go fellas!

This is a part of my Fraternity that went to accept our award of Fraternity of the Year. I guess it's safe to say that it was a good year.

Date Night with My Lady

My Lady wanted to go on a date, so when I got home from work yesterday I was surprised to see her all dolled up to go out. So I quickly got ready to have a nice evening with a beautiful woman.

Look at this classy lady I had the pleasure of attending dinner and a movie with.
I bought her a Brooks Brothers  Polo for a presentation but instead I got to enjoy
 her wearing it on our date. 

Ralph Lauren OCBD, IZOD flat fronts, J Press belt, Southern Proper hat

 We started the date by going to Longhorn Steakhouse and it was delicious! After that we went to go see the movie The Cabin in the Woods.

My Lady and I have seen quite a few scary movies together, and we have seen all the stereotypical zombie, ghosts, serial killer, and creature features films that are out there. But this movie kept us guessing. I can usually figure out movies after a point, and I thought I did with this movie, but then there was a crazy twist. So if you are a fan of horror films I'd say go see this, just solely on the fact that you will probably say,"What the Hell did I just watch?"

A Dog in a Bow Tie

I got a new Southern Proper hat in this weekend and it fits like a glove... Some fun stuff happened this weekend... but I don't have much recollection. I remember a glass table shattering... Did you have a great weekend? Tell me about it. The South's the Limit!