Saturday we drove in the city.  The barge/ship thing was not meant to be the focal point of this photo.  Instead, this is where Sully McSullyson landed the plane in the Hudson, so I guess this river would be the Hudson River and that land on the other side would be New Jersey.

This is Mike.  Our buddy Nick thinks that this photo would make a great cover image for when he releases his first album.  Do you concur?  I concur.  I think we’re at Time Square in this photo, I’m not 100% sure though.

I popped off this photo at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral.  Those Catholics really enjoyed building massive churches.  I forget the stats about this church, but it’s big.

Here’s a shot of the ceiling of the church.  Real tall ceiling.  Huge.

]]> http://rickrickert.com/2009/10/18/stu-voight/feed/ 0 http://rickrickert.com/2009/10/18/north-dakota-hockey-fan/ http://rickrickert.com/2009/10/18/north-dakota-hockey-fan/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:28:27 +0000 RicketyRickert http://rickrickert.com/?p=927 I had the following picture sent to me from Friday nights North Dakota v Minnesota hockey game.

Yours truely walked around Hazeltine for Tuesday’s PGA Championship practice round.  This was my first time at Hazeltine, but I’ve been to golf events before (GMO, LPGA US Open, and the PGA Championship at Whistling Straits).  Going into the event there were a few things / people that I had hoped to see.

1) DJ Trahan – He’s a running joke at work, we think that he has dj gigs in the major cities on Friday and Saturday nights after he misses the cut.

2) Corey Pavin – All day I was mocking Corey’s height as well as other golfer’s heights (they’re all tiny).  I began saying that Corey is 5′5″ and it shortly became 4′7″.  Turns out he’s 5′9″.  Corey was sponsered by Global Crossing back when Global Crossing still existed, they went bankrupt during the accounting scandal years.

3) Sergio Garcia – I pick Sergio in our work pool for every freakin major.  Though he doesn’t win, he typically places quite well.  And I’m just hoping that for 4 days he gets his putting down and wins a major.

Alright, so not your typical list of golfers to see, but I could really care less about Tiger, Phil and whoever golfs.  First off, the course looks good, what is surprising about it is that it looks like a golf course.  There’s nothing spectacular or overwhelming about the place, the average golfer could go out there and not feel intimidated.  That is unless they play it at the yardages the pros are playing.  600+ yard par 5’s and a 250 yard par 3, jeesh.  We were standing behind the 250 yard par 3 and could overhear Pat Perez saying “there’s no way I’m hitting a 3-wood on a par 3″ and that was after he hit two 5-woods into the bunker in front of the green.  That’s going to be a fun hole to watch.  Here’s Ian Poulter attacking the 250 yards.

Shortly after leaving our great spot on the par 3, we found Segio’s group of himself, Retief Goosen, and Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano.  Sergio is shorter than I thought he’d be.  But he was joking around and having a good time, I didn’t expect that.

The highlight of the day came on hole #8 when Retief Goosen’s second practice shot from the tee found the bottom of the cup.  I’d never seen a hole-in-one in person, so it was pretty amazing, but he acted like it was no big deal.

It’s going to be a great tournament, here are my picks for the golf pool we do at work:
Tiger Woods, Segio Garcia, Retief Goosen, Hunter Mahan, Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano, Soren Hansen, Andres Romero, Anders Hansen.

We did see Tiger though.

With 2:29 on the PTI countown clock, you see an attractive young man in a purple polo shirt above Stewart Cink’s shoulder (his left, so the right side of the screen).   That’s me.  Here’s the picture I took of Stewart before the interview.