Here are the video and photos from Zach's graduation. Enjoy. I edited the video from my little camera into this 6-minute clip. Don't miss the sweet message from Zach to my Dad right at the end.
The photos are NOT in any order. To save any one of them, RIGHT-CLICK on it and your computer will give you the option of saving it. Enjoy!
here's zach getting ready for his disneyland trip the next day...
and even though it's irrelevant, i thought it was funny to see mom sitting with my new outdoor canopy in my car while courtney and i ran into the store in las vegas...
This is a private post just because I figured you'd all enjoy seeing these shots of Mom's big birthday lunch, what the bagel biz looks like and what Poppy, Mom's dog, looks like! You can pass along this link to whomever you wish, but I didn't think this material was germane to what I normally blog about, so I segregated it.
First, here's a minute of video from the birthday party...
Here are some really lovely shots of Mom, Dad, me and Grandma in various configurations...
This is the ensemble of women who made me feel like I was in a middle-age episode of "Sex And The City"...
And, of course, the all-important cake shot... The next set were shot at Mother's Day at Woodlands (aka "The Club")...
Here we enter the world of Bagel Exchange, Dad's new business...
This is the machine that makes the bagels round and holey and other behind-the-counter shots...
I came by at 3 a.m. my first night in to check out the middle-of-the-night operation. Here Dad is managing his staff as they lay out the bags and bags of bagels to distribute across three counties...
Steve Friess is a 2011-12 recipient of the prestigious Knight-Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan, where he will be studying the impact of the rapid expansion of Vegas-style gaming on Asia. He's a podcaster, author and Vegas-based freelance journalist who writes regularly for USA Today, The New York Times, Newsweek and many others. His column, "The Strip Sense" appears every Thursday in the Las Vegas Weekly. His books include "Gay Vegas" from Huntington Press and Knopf Mapguides' "Las Vegas." Friess co-hosts the weekly celebrity interview podcast The Strip Podcast "The Strip" with his husband, Miles Smith, the executive producer at KSNV-TV, Channel 3. For four years, Steve also co-hosted The Petcast with Las Vegas Sun education scribe Emily Richmond.