My friend Eric is getting married on Friday and we had his bachelor’s party last night.

During the party, we had some fun with image stitching. (click to zoom)

Eric enjoys some target practice out in Finley.

The guys nearly got into a fight with themselves.

Ridiculous. Just ridiculous.

And what did we do for the bachelor party?

Gun Crazy!

John said the only thing he knew Eric definitely wanted to do as part of his bachelor party was shoot something. So that’s just what we did!

Eric is certainly excited that John found us a .357 Magnum to shoot.

I didn’t know there was anything beyond Finley. There is, it turns out: Lots and lots of shotgun shells!

What’s odd about this van is, well, pretty much everything. Why is it here? How did it get here? Why was there a toy machine gun in the back seat?

The Cadwell boys inspect the damage.

Back to the bus, looking pretty tough.

And there it is: the weapon itself.

In this scene, Eric plays Clint Eastwood with earmuffs.

Brandon yells, “Pull!” and Ryan throws a very shaken up beer can into the air. Brandon successfully obliterates it. John gets covered in beer.

Eric launches a clay pigeon. John was an amazing shot. Eric did quite well, too. Josh was outstanding on one round, hitting five of six in his dentist’s work clothes. Then he went back to work. I started to wonder if his patients would be frightened or comforted if he smelled like a shotgun. If my dentist smelled like a shotgun, I would be comforted.

Kartography

After a few fun hours of shooting the crap out of stuff, we headed to IndyKart, number one choice of bachelor parties everywhere.

Ryan hearts CarnEvil: the arcade game.

Eric hearts hairnet.

Josh gets into his go-kart, joining us briefly just to beat the crap out of us before once again returning to work.

No time for losers, ’cause Josh is the Champion… of the world.

Eating Things

We took a break for dinner in between rounds of go-kartage so Josh could join us once again and beat us silly. We ate at Major’s on Clearwater.

Brandon had a problem. His shirt kept trying to float away.

Very excited, but not actually having any food yet.

Eric hearts wagon wheel.

Ryan waves to himself.

Bowling and Yelling

We had another round of go-karting and, yes, Josh did beat us all… again. Afterward, we hopped back on the mighty mighty bus to Celebrity Bowl in downtown Kennewick.

There seems to be some confusion about the automatic bowling score keeping thingy.

Some of the most brilliant guys I know, struggling to figure out how to enter their names into the bowling machine.

Brandon likes his orange ball. He’s not going to let Ryan have his orange ball.

John shows off his perfect follow through.

He’s clearly very proud of his follow through.

Ryan checks out John’s follow through. Jay zones out. Brandon gives Ryan the death glare, perhaps fearful of Ryan stealing his orange ball.

Ryan B. showed up just in time to get the second highest score of the night. (He let Eric take the top honors.)

Collin was no where near the top. But he was certainly blurry.

Ryan rejoices at having successfully stolen Brandon’s ball. He looks insane and the ball looks like a pumpkin.

Drew says, “Maybe we should put the bumpers back up.”

I yelled every time I bowled. I had fun because it was fun.

And that’s it.

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