Southern Thoms day two plus morning day three

Phil did the rest of the commentary. Please understand this is what twenty something males think is humorous.

ZOMG IT'S TEH UNIBOMBER!!!!!!!!!

Pozin Gangsta Style in Teh Hood of Stallis, Murda Murda

Damn Hippie Drum Circle

Chem 101: Making Tasty Pancakes

Sugar + Alcohol = K.O.

Southern Thoms day two part II

The children went to the Racine Zoo. Here they are deciding what to see in the time we had.This was a meerkat exhibit. Lucy had to stand on her tippy toes to see it.

Still the zoo, walking from on exhibit to another.

Southern Thoms day two

I think the camera is off by 12 hours so this pic of the children and I at the airport taken by Cassie was added to the 2007, 07, 04 fireworks folder. The flash on ly goes so far.This is the children at a wayside just before we got the the Jelly Belly tour. I asked for one 'nice pic' and one silly one. Guess which is which.

Here they are after the tour. They were really good. We came away with a treat for 'mom and dad' and one for the Mineraths because I will not let them eat their jelly rats here. Ewwww!!!More uploads later. My car is done!!

Southern Thoms day one

Cassie took the cousins for a walk to and from Greenfield park. Note Keegan bringing up the rear. [double click on the tree] It was hot and sticky.Fed and happy. Larry lit the grill. Phil cooked Italian sausages and hamburgers. I scooped the H2O melon.
Later we saw the fireworks at State Fair park. These last 2 days I have seen fireworks from closer up than ever before. Tonight I had to tilt my head back.

We made turtle sundaes when we got back home. You will need to ask them why they are called turtle sundaes.

The children were given a choice of sleeping on the air conditioned carpeted upstairs living room floor or the porches. Kaileigh is on the downstairs enclosed porch sleeping on the swing and the other two on on the upstairs porch in the open. [refer to the graduation pics for an visuals] There is no bad weather expected tonight.

Fireworks July 3, 2007

This is a compilation of fireworks at the lakefront. I used the point and hope-for-the-best method of photography. Gary and Kathy invited us to share their view of the fireworks. They stake out a location and put a screen tent up early in the day. Matthew picked Cassie up after the West Allis Awards breakfast and they spent the day between his family's screen tent and Summerfest. Larry and I napped and met them after supper. It started raining with lightening about 1/2 an hour before the anticipated start of the event and then kept up the off and on light rain for the balance of the evening.
There was not as large a crowd as I remember in the past.... It might have been the weather or, just maybe the spot Gary staked out of prime viewing realestate made it seem that way.
The fireworks came from the North of the War Memorial, the South of the War Memorial and from the top of the old First Wisconsin building. We had 270° of excitement.
We walked in from the McArthur square parking lot to make sure we avoid gridlock. There was very little of that because the police kept everything running smoothly.
We all slept well last night.

The reunion

Felch, home of the 1975, 76, 77, 78 and 79 North Dickenson High School class reuion. It started at 3:00 pm. This is what the parking lot looked like then. It filled up at 5:00 because of the 'NO ALCHOHOL on site rule' Once a Yooper always a Yooper. BTW, the school colors are burgandy and white with a viking as a mascot. [North Dickenson--> Nor Diks---> Nordick's] The patriotic balloons were in celebration of the season.Yes, the site holds the US post office, a 2 or 3 times a week walkin in clinic, the community kitchen, half a dozen horse shoe pits, a play ground, a batting cage, a covered picnic area large enough for half the county, with two pit grills and two fields for the Labor day weekend hard ball tournaments enjoyed from either the bleachers or the hood of your car. Here is one of the fields from a distance. This is truly God's country.
This is the home team bleachers. The visitor's bleachers were rotting with Christmas trees growing between the seats. I gave a buddy from work fits because the Franklin visitor's bleachers were not welcoming. Felch wins.
Oh yeah, the way these middle aged high schoolers got around the alcohol rule was to keep their coolers in their cars and then make lots of trips to their cars.

Aunt Mary's before the reunion

We went North for a multiple year class reunion. This was not part of my world, but I was interested in what 'yoo per's' who graduated in the second half of the 1970's did since then. Below is a pic of Robert and Brian. Robert naps a lot.
Mary made a nice lunch to send us on our way to the reunion.
Larry is wearing a WA Hale run T-shirt. He changed into a plain colored shirt for the reunion and then put a UW sweatshirt over it when the sun went down. Do you think anyone figured out he was living in Wisconsin?

Robert, awake.