Meet My 225 Pound Friend...

 Meet Max.  I stand corrected from my previous post... he is 225 pounds not 210 pounds.  Max is a three year old Great Dane who just happens to be much bigger than most Great Danes.  Max's mother was about 120lbs and his father was about 160lbs.  In fact Max was recently saw his mother for the first time since he was a puppy, and his mother was terrified of him.

 Although Max is the biggest dog I've ever seen, unfortunately he is not the biggest dog.

 

 Max was pretty overwhelming to me at first.  As he ran around joyfully, his tail felt like a whip if it accidentally grazed your leg.  However, Max may be huge but he is the sweetest dog, and I don't believe he realizes how big he is.  He hides when the garbage truck comes, and he was once scared of a pile of sticks.

 

Max's paws are much bigger than my hands and when standing on four legs he comes to my waist.  When standing on two legs... he dominates me in height.

 

So Max, my 225 lb friend (don't worry, I'm not going to make a habit of introducing my friends by their weight).

Mugs by Mooks

This weekend JP and I drove to Milligan College near Johnson City, Tennessee for JP's brother Michael's senior photography show.  If you remember, Michael is an awesome photographer.

Unfortunately, I had class on Saturday so JP and I had to leave around 1:30 Saturday afternoon to make the 6 hour drive in the very rainy and windy weather.  We stretched the drive out with our stop in Knoxville at "Ye Olde Steak House."  JP and I my Dad had seen this on tv once while watching a Tennessee game and have both really wanted to eat there ever since.  We were already planning on stopping in Knoxville for dinner, and my Dad reminded us of this place.  So we drove through Knoxville until we found this pretty cool restaurant.  We shared a 20oz Porterhouse and JP got mushrooms and I got potatoes.

While we were traveling and eating steak, everyone else was at Milligan preparing for the Sunday show by hanging 21 photos.

The show on Sunday was great! Not only did we get to enjoy Michael's awesome work but so did about 200 other people.

Michael was excited to share his work with other people.  We got to meet a lot of his friends and teachers as well.

I obviously married in to this family.  JP says I need a stool.

 

We were all hungry after cleaning up the show, we were all super hungry so we went to this place Fatz for dinner.  The food was good, and the waiter liked us so much he gave us two free desserts which, as JP said, "left us all feeling Fatz."

 

 Some other notable things we experienced while in the Johnson City area included:

This restaurant called Pal's.  It probably was the most humorous looking place I have ever purchased food, and I'm pretty sure it came right out of this old school Nickelodeon cartoon.

Max the 210lb dog.  He deserves a blogpost devoted completely to himself, and he will get such a post sometime soon.