Weston State Park Missouri

Weston State Park is located on the upper West side of Missouri, it is aligned on the east side of the Missouri River. The park has about 7 trails to walk on, although it is not clear if any actually make it to the Missouri River. The river is higher than usual, and to be higher once the water from the Dakotas flow south. The dogs enjoyed their time outside, but the humidity takes its toll on everyone. Overall, we would come back and try some of the other trails. The city of Weston is home of Buffalo Bill and many of the downtown buildings are authentically old. We may need to have to visit their downtown in the future without the dogs, although they would enjoy themselves.

Congrats Coach Carlisle!

for winning the 2011 NBA Championship From Detroit Pistons Fans!

Carlisle still earned part of the championship in Detroit in 2004, a year after he was fired. If there will be a film done, Jim Carrey would play the role of Carlisle.

Movie Review; Hangover 2

If you did not like the first movie, you certainly will not enjoy the second. There were many times throughout the movie that equaled awkwardness with the audience. Many times laughs by the audience were half paced and much of the pushing jokes were ill.

Discontinuity error:The sequence where Stu (Ed Helms), is singing a song with a guitar on the boat was out of place. It was almost like the director thought it was just too good to not keep it in the movie. Where did the guitar come from? All the guys seemed in good spirits?...why, the scene before they were not.

The singing by Tyson was terrible, and poorly put together. It would of been a better mastery of writing to include Tyson in the underground seedy Bangkok scene vs. having him paid to sing/rap at the movie end.

While it was fun to see the "gang" back together again, it kinda takes away from originality of the first. The audience did not get a lot of the Bangkok jokes, let alone pin point where it is on a map.

Pro: Paul Giamatti is such a great actor

Con: The Character of Doug, yet again gets the worst on scene time of the group. If you are going to do a group movie, then include the whole group. Many of the photos that are in the movie credits were distasteful.

Star Rating: 6/10

Extreme Couponing: Operation Gillette

Ok, a few weeks ago there was a MEGA PICK of coupons in the sunday paper. We purchased 8 to 10 papers that weekend, inside was this great coupon: Buy 1 Gillette Body Wash, Get 1 Gillette Deodorant Free. Now at the time, we hit up other operations (such as old spice, nivea, and irish spring) of great deals, which can be seen in our blog. But I knew at some point this coupon would be golden, and when the right deal would show itself, we would strike like a eagle striking a lake trout.

This sundays paper (TODAY), they distributed 2 Gillette Coupons.

Coupon1: Get 2.00 off a Gillette Body Wash

Coupon2: Buy 1 Gillette Deodorant Get 1 Free.

So lookie what we have here, a combo deal of the century. By utilizing my coupons from a few weeks ago and todays golden tickets, we can score something fierce.

Now, the third angle to this triangle is where we score the deal from, and in todays flier from Walgreens stood the answer. The deal was, Buy 3 Gillette Body Wash, for 10 bucks and receive 1000 Bonus Points! Wow, that is great, but what else was Walgreens doing, they had a buy 1 Gillette Deodorant, get 1 half off! Holy Toledo, the Sun, the Earth, TheMoon are in line. Let's take them to the cleaners!

Basically the single deal was this:

1. Buy 3 Body Wash, for 10 bucks, get 1000 bonus points.

2. Use 3 Coupons for 2.00 off each body wash, net cost (4 bucks).

3. Utilize my buy a body wash, get a deodorant coupon (3 free deodorants).

4. Utilize my buy 1 deodorant, get 1 free (use 3 coupons- 4 max per shopping trip) But since I already had a one on my ticket from point (3), my purchase price was half off of 5.50 to 2.75! But my coupon removed the retail price from the bill.

Net cost per cycle it was 7 bucks for 3 body wash, and 9 deodorants. Of course, I had to pay taxes on the entire total, but at these savings I am fine with that!

I did this shopping cycle 3 times today and scored 9 body washes, and scores (26 or 27) of gillette deodorant.

Funny, these deodorants are 5.50 per stick and my normal price point for old spice has always been 2.50-3.25 per stick. So you could say I am living high on the proverbial good smelling hog tonight!

Now getting back to these bonus points, according to my walgreen account, 2000 or 2500 points can be turned in for 5.00 of store credit! So, with these purchases today, I am very close to netting 10 free walgreen bucks! As the now unemployed Charlie Sheen has coined, "Winning, Duh".

Horse Betting Fail: 2011 Kentucky Derby

This was my first kentucky derby to which I had laid some cash down while in Las Vegas. I made a bet, a 3 horse exacta box bet. With Midnight Interlude, Mucho Macho Man and Animal Kingdom....

Well well well, Animal Kingdom came in 1st and Mucho Macho Man came in 3rd. But Midnight Interlude decided not to place. The bet was that if either of my 3 horses came in 1st and 2nd, I would win. As you can see, I missed out on winning about 500 dollars due to Mucho not sticking out his head far enough for a 2nd place victory.

Not bad for my first derby bet~! Although, I would of loved the 500 bucks.

Being at a sportsbook was almost as fun as being at a sporting event. The crowds are cheering, booing, it is a real fun time.