photodocumentation of life in 2006: the rise and fall of chuck grotte.
the rise: i think i'm gonna be okay
JANUARY 2006
new year's eve


scary roommate slept with a knife. yikes.


best christmas present ever.


we went to outback before page left. NO RULES!


ricky and doug


andrew


mr. moped


chad, my old roommate


futureman, inc: dodgeball champions of the world


tyler and ricky


ruth and terra- dirty pirate hookers


andrew potter, the biggest hick in the world


one night, we shaved andrew's head


FEBRUARY 2006
one time, i wiped out on my moped


andrew greenplate and my little friend noe


kyrsten


exploring energy point for the first time


potter built his own crossbow


andrew and dougie, BFF


my dear, sweet jane


loren and darlene cunningham


tyler's awesome hat


MARCH 2006
chad and christy the night before she left for home


my hebrew class


liscence and registration please, ma'am


APRIL 2006
one weekend i went to honolulu and saw my dad


the old international market


my dad's family used to own this hotel


i took a limo back to the airport


MAY 2006
hanging out with page and her parents
but mostly this was the first time i noticed katherine ann dean.


waipio valley


a week or so later, i found myself in love with her


page trying to cheat in scrabble


page, kat and i doing the bucks


classic pictures


JUNE 2006
hanging out with noe and his parents for the last time


learning how to fish in the ocean


if i only knew the tradition this would become


JULY 2006
one time me kat went to hilo for the day


karoke again. more classic pictures


ryan


lee, the afro king


iain


we all went out for kelsey's 21'st birthday


kelsey and jason


i had a great summer this summer with good summer friends


krissy, kelsey and jon


pretty much my favorite picture ever


just chuck loves karaoke


one time katherine, lee and i recorded a song


AUGUST 2006
kat went to scotland for three weeks and i moved into my apartment


the fall: she came back from scotland and something was wrong.
driving to the volcano with eric, kat, jason and hannah


black sands beach


binder was our roommate for a while


camping at the volcano


the lava tube. scary and awesome


another favorite


the steam vents


the lava. awesome


wake-up face


akaka falls. duh


SEPTEMBER 2006
then she dumped me


OCTOBER 2006
ironman


peter scott tried to run it but failed so we had a party for him


moshi moshi time


sunrise at mauna kea


abby was out visiting


chuck <3 jane


one night, dave's bed broke


NOVEMBER 2006
thanksgiving with bubba gump people


DECEMBER 2006
dave was too lazy to take off his shoes


dave beating the crap out of binder. pretty standard stuff in a205


my part of the room


mile 88 one last time before i left for chicago


outback friends: pete, esther, cisco and binder


cisco is the funniest kid


gloria, my beautful car


bubba gump's christmas party


my christmas t-shirt life


went to philly to see chad and christy get married. craziest weekend of my life.


and even andrew came


alicia, a girl we met


morning after face


i don't know why this happened, but it was really funny


dougie showed up for the wedding


gooing off at wal-mart


morning after face/the wedding


chad and i rock out before he gets hitched


christy, the lucky lady


yikes. a whale that ate a house


but the real party was after the wedding


do the tiger, andrew


saying goodbye


sam, chad's brother


driving to the airport


strangest start to a friendship ever


andrew was very, very sick/hung over


puking minidoc


visions of 2007 and rocketmen dancing through my head.