Shawn Smith’s web ninja life

While walking to my co-worker’s car yesterday, we were nearly blinded by the huge fluffy snow that was falling. While this wasn’t the first snow, it was one of the more picturesque snowfalls I’ve been able to capture. Check it:

Mahalo friends. My coworkers grabbed me today for a great lunch at Ann Arbor’s The Blue Tractor, a new place owned by the owners of Grizzly Peak and Cafe Habana.

Take a quick tour of the inside: (more pics and vids at Blue Tractor’s dishes

Now that you’ve seen how nice it looks inside, check out the menu:

Ann Arbor’s Blue Tractor Restaurant Shows Off Interesting Menu from shawn smith on Vimeo.

Is your mouth watering yet?

The Blue Tractor, overall, is really a nice looking place. And what’s super cool is the restaurant connects to Cafe Habana through the basement. Check out this quick tour of the basement region:

Hope that was great for you as it was for me… I’m heading back for dinner tonight!

We were working pretty hard on Election Day when we heard screaming emanating from the streets. Chants of “USA! USA!” bounced around the office, sneaking in through our open windows.

So I ran to the street to get some video so you could see it

Isn’t that so awesome?! Check it out:

Another video:

See more of my Election Day videos.

I voted, everyone! Kyle (brother), Andrew (roommate) and I got in line at Ann Arbor Pioneer High School at about 6:30 a.m. The polls didn’t open until 7 a.m., but the line snaked through Pioneeer’s halls with about 200 people by the time we arrived.

Many people were sitting in chairs, and the guy at the front of the line got there at 5:30 a.m. because he had to work at 7:30 a.m.

The lines inside the school’s gym were a mess and I thought ‘if this is what it’s like in Ann Arbor, today’s voting is going to be a catastrophe.’ But luckily I was suprised by relatively smooth voting on Election Day.

Here’s a video report of me after voting. More videos of Election Day and me!

Hope you all had a great Election Day. Go Future!

When I saw Mashable was sharing invites to the new TheKarokeChannel.com website, I knew I had to get on it immediately or face the wrath of Nikki.

It’s a pretty cool site. If you’re really into singing in front of your computer and spend too much time searching for lyrics and instrumentals, then this is the place for you.

Check it out

A new Chipotle restaurant opened in Ann Arbor today and they offered free food to local businesses and Ann Arbor VIPs as part of their staff training.

Lucky for us my coworker Tim gave them a call and ordered 23 burritos for our office. That’s right 23!

Check it out:

AND LET’S EAT!

My burrito as well as the burrito’s of two of my coworkers were actually missing. But that’s ok. We walked back and the nice staff at the new Chipotle gave us the requested burritos and 5 bags of chips and guac. This was the best lunch EVAR!

I took my brother recently to the Washtenaw County, Michigan Obama campaign office in Ann Arbor to register to vote. Kyle has never voted in an election before and I urged him to finally accept this glorious civic duty and get registered. Here’s the video of Kyle getting registered: You might be hoping for a better look at the Ann Arbor Obama. Well you’re in luck. Here’s a quick scan of the room:

Nikki’s company hosted its first ever company fair at the Saline fairgrounds and Nikki was kind enough to invite me along. Think of it as a fair with 1800 people, 600 kids, all the free fair foods you could get sick on, a mechanical bull, a climbing wall, carnival games, blow up climbing things and a beer tent – because that’s what it was!

Here’s some of the videos:

Get a look at the fairgrounds

I eat one of 1,500 corn dogs

Nikki milks a cow

See more photos and video of Nikki’s fair at my Flickr

Many have asked, ‘just what were you doing in St. Louis?” last weekend. Believe me, we weren’t taking a 12 hour trip through the Midwest to just visit St. Louis’ awesome City Museum.

Nay.

The real reason was to attend my younger cousin’s wedding! Here comes the bride!

The wedding was certainly very nice and the weather cooperated. Shortly after the ceremony, the newlyweds and the wedding party scooted off on golf carts for the photos. Meanwhile, we headed to the reception.

Just after dinner the dancing started. Sorry that you won’t see much of me dancing. After getting up at 5 a.m. and working the day of our 12-hour drive, followed by a day at the City Museum, I couldn’t do much to stay awake into the night’s hours. But you will see my mom cutting it up!

Check out more photos and videos from my cousin’s wedding in Missouri.

We have! Kyle, Amanda, Nikki and I let out our inner-children at the St. Louis City Museum, every kids dream jungle gym. This place is nuts! See Shawn, Nikki, Kyle and Amanda’s photos and videos from the City Museum

And here I am climbing through some of the stuff

For some reason, Flickr couldn’t process a couple of my videos, so here’s a couple interesting ones. Me climbing through a plane!

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And here’s me and the crew climbing through a tunnel in a hollow tree:

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There’s a ton more awesome videos to see, check out shawn smith’s photos and videos from the City  Museum.