A fellow REALTOR friend (Kathy) posted a discount on Facebook for Barrel Oak Winery. The deal is over July 13, 2011, Click for deal – but I thought I’d post a picture of my bottles of wine from Barrell Oak Winery. My friends (and past clients) Drew and Dawn invited my wife and me to tour several Northern Virginia Wineries and we had a blast. Here’s a link to a list of local wineries.

Pictured: Two Chocolate Labs. A 2006 (I think) and a 2010. It’ll be nice to taste the differences.

I posted these but I didn’t take them. My long time, good friend David Wasserman took them. David and I have known each other for about 15 years. We’ve had real estate transactions together and we’ve trained together at Scott Teagues Academy of Martial Arts. We even attended each others Black Belt Ceremonies. He took some pictures of the 2011 Cherry Blossoms and I liked them so much I asked to post them. I put them on my Flickr account and generated a slideshow to display here. David is a professional photographer and his contact information is below the slideshow. Please visit his site. Enjoy!

David Wasserman, Photographer
Phone ~ 301-467-0623
eMail ~ david@wasserphoto.com

http://wasserphoto.com

We have a friend who’s related to Jeff Kinney the Author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books. Our friend was nice enough to invite my family to attend a private screening of his newest movie, Rodrick Rules. It was a very funny movie with lots of “laugh out loud” moments. After the movie, Mr. Kinney took us all out for lunch.

Pictured below is Jeff Kinney signing a book and his brother, the “real life” Rodrick.

My smiling daughter Samantha with Jeff Kinney

This takes 4 minutes but I finally win. I don’t make him tap out, I instead win by points.

I took him down but he overpowered me and forced an arm bar against his knee. I think he was competing under his ability. He got me pretty quickly.

Northern Virginia has hundreds of miles of walking/bicycling/running trails both paved and natural!