Roy and Debbie: July 2010

Friday, July 30, 2010

Happy Birthday Oliver!!!

Our little man is two years old.

Love ya, Mister.

Opie and Nana.

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Getting ready to play

A few photos taken on Saturday morning as we were getting ready to go play in the water.

Oliver, Shawn, Kelsey, Jeremy, Evie and Maggie ready to go.

Nana is ready, too.

Tara misplaced her wrist band and looked everywhere for it. John found it in the diaper bag. hee hee

Oliver was smiling at the camera until I took the photo.

Sleeping with one eye open

Maybe two. Hee hee.

Kelsey and Jeremy pretty much slept the whole trip each way between Stillwater and New Braunfels. Debbie snapped this photo of Kelsey on the way there Friday. LOL

We had a great family trip to the Schlitterbahn water park in New Braunfels, Texas. We visited Schlitterbahn in 2003 during our family trip to Sea World in San Antonio. This time, we had a few more people. Tara, John, Evie, Maggie, Oliver, Megan, Shawn, Kelsey, Jeremy, Debbie and I met there on Friday afternoon. We played all day Saturday and went our separate ways on Sunday.

The condo where Debbie, Tara, John, the grandkids, and I stayed.

The room where Megan, Kelsey, Shawn and Jeremy stayed. They had a great view of the Comal River from their porch. We did not have this great view from the condo.

Lots of green spaces between the porch and the river.

View toward the river. The water is very clear and cold. Schlitterbahn uses water from the river on some of the "rides" in the east park.

Closer look at the river.

More green space.

The other "cabins". The blue poles, barely visible in the distance through the trees, are the same ones in the photo below.

This is the view we had from the condo. The "castle" in the distance is the water roller coaster called Master Blaster. Gotta wait in line for a long time to ride that one. There is a lazy river ride that goes around the Master Blaster. I lost at small, waterproof tube with $45 inside the tube on that river. dangit. Hopefully, some little kid scored when he or she found the tube. Anyway, the three tall, blue poles are another attraction that none of us had the nerve, or $$, to ride. Megan and Kelsey's room was near the Master Blaster.

We rented two rooms on the Schlitterbahn property. There are two big parks, Schlitterbahn East and Schlitterbahn West. We stayed at the east resort, which is called Resort on the Rapids. Pretty good idea since we could just go out the door and take a short walk to the front gate. No hassle with finding a place to park or anything. One of the "rooms" was a two bed space that is part of a large cabin. One of the "rooms" was a two story, two bedroom condo with a kitchen. We ate a breakfast of cereal on Saturday morning, lunch of sandwiches for lunch and Debbie made a huge pot of spaghetti for dinner. That helped a bunch, especially Saturday nite after everyone was pooped from playing all day. We tried to go to IHOP on Sunday morning but it was packed. Tried a bakery, Oma's Haus, but Oma didn't serve breakfast. Ended up at Denny's and a very late breakfast. It was almost noon before we got a meal. Should have eaten cereal at the condo. But, it was good times with everyone together. Don't know how many times we will be able to pull off getting all of us together at once like that in the future, so gotta enjoy each time it happens.

Debbie bought two disposable, waterproof cameras so we could take photos. Fifty-four photos all together that could have been taken. We might have taken a dozen photos between the two cameras. Kept leaving the cameras with the towels at the various tables that we staked temporary claim to. We will finish using the cameras and get the stuff developed as soon as we can. Eleanor, we won't leave them laying around for years until you get tired of waiting to see the photos. I promise.

The grandkids certainly had a blast. The big "kids" had fun, too. Although by the end of the day everyone seemed weary of waiting in the long lines to do the "rides". The place was crowded.

On Sunday, we followed Tara and John from New Braunfels to Dallas. We stopped at a Czech bakery in West, Texas. Good cinammon roll and kalaches. I didn't try a kalache, but heard they were really good. We stopped at an antique mall a few miles north of there. We stopped at Sal's Pizza in Dallas, which is one of Jeremy's favorite restaurants. Pretty good pizza.

There is a Schlitterbahn park in Kansas City, one in Galveston and another at Padre Island, Texas. If you get a chance to go, it's fun!

Monday, July 19, 2010

An old tv show

Anyone remember Lancelot Link - Secret Chimp? Dreaded Hong Kong sneeze and the Great Bank Robbery

I remember watching this show years ago on Saturday mornings. There are a bunch of these on YouTube. Hilarious.

Here is another one that I remember watching when we lived in Colorado. Marine Boy. Japanese animation. The kid was a secret agent of some sort. He could swim underwater and breathe by chewing a special gum. Dorky, but in the late 1960's this was cool stuff. hee hee. Marine Boy intros

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Happy Anniversary Tara and John

Eleven years ago our eldest baby married the man of her dreams. Happy Anniversary, Tara and John. We wish you many more years of happiness together.

Love you both.

Mom and Dad

Concert night

Debbie and I went to a concert last night at the Brady Theater in Tulsa. We saw Robert Plant for the fifth time. The first four times we saw him in Oklahoma City. Twice by himself. Once with Jimmy Page during their Walking into Clarksdale tour. We saw Robert Plant and Alison Krauss in OKC during their Raising Sand tour a couple of years ago. Now, Robert Plant is touring with a reprised Band of Joy (Robert Plant and the Band of Joy website). The music is a mix of soul, blues and folk music. And of course, Led Zeppelin songs and other Robert Plant songs. Good stuff. Before Robert Plant joined Led Zeppelin, he was an original member and founder of the Band of Joy in England with John Bonham, who was the drummer for Led Zeppelin. The current version of Band of Joy includes Buddy Miller and Patty Griffin. Buddy Miller (Buddy Miller website) toured with Plant and Krauss during the Raising Sand tour. Very good guitar player and singer. Last nite was our first exposure to Patty Griffin (Patty Griffin website). Not the last. I looked her up on the www this morning. She is well known among soul and blues music crowds. Definitely going to learn more about her music. Tiny, skinny gal with a huge, awesome voice.

The opening band was two guys in a band called North Mississippi Allstars (North Mississippi Allstars website). They played some blues and folk music. At least that's how I would describe it. Last nite there were only two guys. A guitar player and a drummer. Very good. Before the concert started, we were sitting in our seats. We saw an tall guy with two women walk up to a group of people a few rows in front of us. The older woman was the guy's grandmother. The younger woman apparently was his girlfriend. When the concert started, the tall guy sat down behind the drums. And rocked it hard. He played the drums, keyboards and sang. Liked the band and plan to buy a CD of their music.

Our seats were about 50 feet from the stage. This was our first time to attend a concert at the Brady. Small auditorium and a great place to watch a concert. Debbie had a good view most of the night directly at Robert Plant. As usual with floor seats. there are people standing up who are way too tall to be standing or people sitting in front of you who are too tall to be sitting in front of you. LOL. There was a very tall woman about 3 rows in front of us that would stand up once in a while, which made it hard to see around her. A couple of times, she took a perfume bottle out of her purse and sprayed perfume everywhere. At least I hope it was perfume. I had the munchies after the concert. Maybe she was spraying some sort of marijuana extract... Anyway, we had a good time and picked up a couple of new t-shirts. Late nite getting home.

Debbie tried to take some photos, but for some reason almost none of them turned out well. She did take some video of a few songs. If I figure out how to post them, I will later.

Have a great day.

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Saturday

Back crackin' at the chiropractor's office this morning. Lunch with Debbie and Kelsey at the bagel shop. Trip to Blackwell to check out an antique store where we found a few books and a necklace for Kelsey. Back home and watchin' "Heartbreak Ridge". Debbie is cooking saurkraut and sausage for dinner. Pretty good day so far.

Hope everyone else had a good day, too.

Friday, July 9, 2010

Fan gets a tad excited

A fan sitting near the right field fence during a Seattle Mariner's game got a bunch excited after the Mariner's right fielder, Ichiro Suzuki, ran into her while trying to catch a foul ball. Watch the first part of this video: Yahoo sports minute

Home run catch

During a recent game between the Florida Marlins and the LA Dodgers, a batter hit a home run that went into the Dodger's bullpen. Read the attached article and watch the video to see where the ball landed. Nice catch!

Stanton's homer lands in bullpen