week 18

kansas baseball in texas

last fall when all the new apple stuff was getting ready to be announced

sean made the comment that when phones had better pixels than my camera

then he would get me a new camera

well guess what...

i got a new camera for christmas!

and i've had a lot of fun playing around with it

and learning all the features

my first real playing around 

was when my nephew came to town

to play baseball with his college team

since he plays for the hesston larks

which is in kansas

you can probably guess i don't get to see him play very often

so it was extra special that his team came to texas for a tournament

it was also great to him my sister and brother in law come and stay for a few days!

red sox

we headed out on our annual bus trip

with a bunch of friends

to the red sox game in boston

it's always a great time

looking forward to next years trip!

day 130

go sox

recently we took a little trip here

with these guys
minus the old guy to the left (and i'm not talking about moe)

to do a little of this

and a little of this

taking the bus with a bunch of your friends down ROCKS!
and if i hadn't been up since 4 am you know i'd be joining the dance party that was happening...

b&w class - messages

i've really struggled with these prompts lately
they're all about messages
if you're any kind of friend you just understand...
i'm not observant
and i'm just not deep
and we hardly leave camp
so to find messages out in the world to me
was virtually impossible
so don't expect anything deep or profound, but here goes...

well said

no words necessary

handwritten

flying north for the summah

As I sit here in a coat, listening to the neighbor play the bagpipes and dodging hummingbirds I definitely know I'm back in Maine - and it feels good!  Well, except the needing to bundle back up in a coat part - and the leaving all my Texas friends behind.  Then I have flashes of all the visitors we're going to have this summer and all the preparations needing to happen.  How can it be time to be up in Maine already?  It seems like we just got to Texas - or maybe it's that Sean had just gotten to Texas since he spent so much time in the UK over the past winter.

But it is what it is and it's definitely Spring and was time to make the switch - it was getting too hot in Texas, according to Sean.  Me?  I was just getting comfortable.  The trek to Maine was no 10 day boondoggle in the Jeep but was a lot of fun nonetheless.  We flew into Boston - Duke in tow, of course and met up with Sean's friend and brother.

Of course we had to hit our favorite spot in the North End, Antico Forno for dinner.  Since it has now also become everyone else's favorite spot, we couldn't get in until 9 pm.  My solution was to hit up my new favorite, Max Brenner, for a little dessert before dinner.  See what I mean (totally recommend the White Russian!)...

Rich chocolate and heavy Italian food put us right to sleep, which was good as we had a big day planned for Sunday - a 40th birthday party for Sean's friend.

Sean's friend that we stayed with in Boston (who happened to also marry us) got up and cooked us a great breakfast.  This proved to be a good call as it was Mother's Day and you just never know what the restaurants are going to be like.  Then we met up with a bunch of Sean's friends near Fenway for some pre-game beverages.  You guessed it - we were headed for the Red Sox game!!!

After the game we bid Sean's brother and friend farewell and hopped the bus up to Maine with the birthday boy and all the birthday party goers that were from Maine.  We got to Camp at around 10 pm and were so tired we dropped everything in the middle of the floor and headed to bed.

We've already completed our "project" for the season (pics coming soon), cleaned up the flower beds a little, evaluated all the plants that have been eaten by the deer, gazed at amazement that our Magnolia survived the winter, fed the critters and tried to get as much stuff out of the Camp as possible so we would no longer feel claustrophobic.  Once I hear the loons all will be complete and I will officially be "home".

night with the angels

Amy and I went to the Angels game.  I have never been to a stadium that was so easy to get in and out of.  We even parked for free and weren't that much further from the stadium then the people that paid to park.  It was total awesomeness!!!

The stadium is actually pretty cool.   I loved the big, giant hats out front.

We ended up with really good seats for not that expensive (I think all the fees they charge these days for "your convenience" were more than the tickets themselves).  We were right by the foul pole.

It was free jersey night, if you were a kid, or had kids with you, which we didn't so we just had to enjoy our beer and angel dog instead.  I guess this Hunter guy is a big deal - he was that night - hit a home run.  I'm thinking he would have been fired if he hadn't since all the jerseys they gave out had his name on them.

Of course because they won we got a little fireworks show.

I don't think I've ever been to a baseball game where I wished I had a jacket.  I'm usually sweating so bad I wish I had on a swim suit.  Once the sun went down it got COLD out there.  I've always enjoyed going to a baseball game or two during a season.  We haven't made it to the Red Sox yet this year.  I think I've been to a Red Sox game for the last 4 or 5 years.  I guess there's still time - they play like a million games a season anyway, right?

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Don't forget you have just a week left to try for the one-year giveaway!