Catching Up from April in Michigan

The Hat made its way to one of the other states that begins with an Mi - Michigan.
Visiting friends in the Detroit area.


Kendall




Elizabeth




Ben


Jacob



and.......
Our ride operator at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo museum



They love hockey in Kalamazoo!

Hatlanta

We went down to Atlanta to visit friends, so naturally the Wild Hat made its way down for the 90 degree heat.

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and us at Harry's Market. You can see this place on Good Eats. It's one of the places Alton Brown goes to shop for groceries. It started as an Atlanta grocery store and was bought up by Whole Foods.

Off to the Races (Auto)

The hat has been on a whirlwind tour, attending Formula 1 races in Montreal and Indianapolis!

At the track on Ile de Notre Dame

Deux Canadiens

The Racing Capital of the World - Indianapolis

The Hat attends Toni's 40th Party

June 2nd was Toni's 40th birthday party. There was a lot of merriment and music. Unfortunately, the Khim Hat in Chicago could not make the flight out. We were said for him. Fortunately, we were able to enjoy ourselves.

The three Minneapolis Hats

The Hats' first jam session

The Hats in a special performance with Mini-Bike

Another impromtu jam session

The Hat with neighbor, Omar

Great America

The Jefferson Hat from Minneapolis visited the Khim Hat residing in Chicago. Along with the Jefferson Family, their French visitor - Val, also accompanied the Hat on this trip. They all spent the day at Great America. So many roller coasters so few barf bags.

The Hat with Flash Gordon and the Green Lantern

The Hat waiting in line

The Hats waiting for Raging Bull

The Hat on its way up

The Hat survived its first roller coaster

The Hat doing the Giant Drop - 200 ft

The Hat with Superman

The Hat with the King and Queen of Mardi Gras

The Hat made it to closing time

The Reunion

This post is long overdue. The Hats had their first reunion since the conception of the Wild Hat Blog. It was on Grace's birthday. Our Rip in the Space-Time Continum theory proved to be incorrect. The universe can breathe a sigh of relief.

The Hat Women

What's wrong with my Hat?

Children of the Hat

The Hat's Fairbanks, AK Trip

This is a long overdue post. John and Jean brought the Hat to visit their son in Fairbanks, AK. The hat went to the Native American exhibit at the museum at the Univ of Alaska, Fairbanks (UAF). It made symbolic freinds with a totum.


The hat then went to the International Ice Carving contest where it posed in front of a Chinese team's winning carving of the Year of the Boar. The wind chill here at 10:30 pm is about 30 below.


The hat also travelled north of Fairbanks about 95 miles into the Sawtooth mountains and, after an 11 mile trek, came to Tolovana Hot Springs. The temperature when the hat took a dip was about 5 below with a 10 MPH wind.


The hat's final adventure was to go and see the festival, Chatanika Days at Chatanika, AK, about 20 miles north of Fairbanks.


The highlight of the event was the Outhouse Race. Here we have the hat posed in front of the event sign and also in front of an ice carving of that famous ediface.