August 17, 2008
Mmmm...Taste like twins.
You must wonder what we feed her.
More pictures.
July 14, 2008
How to Enjoy a Golf Tournament - After Party
Last week we took part in an annual event, even though we didn’t technically take part, except for the food and beer. But that’s what I’m good at. It was the Dino Golf Classic back home in Endwell. It was held at Endwell Greens – the actual home of the famed 7th Tee where Becky and I were married. Awwwwwwwwwwwwww.
Last year I golfed with my Dad, but this year I had to pass since we were just returning from the long Maine trip on Monday and we would have had to drive up Friday night for the early time. Instead we chose the optional food plan and hit the after party only. I admit some performance anxiety may have kept me off the course. Also, last year’s event was the first time in 2 years that I had picked up my clubs. This year would have been the second time, so I had a feeling the game was rusty. The party also gave the baby a chance to be squeezed by a lot of people she had not met yet. As you can see in the picture, she was kind of tired by the end.
We spent Sunday at my parents, again so the baby could get squeezed, and the grandparents could make goo-goo noises. Food intake: Spiedies (2); bag of fries, pizza slices (10+). – a short trip.
Here's a link to all the pictures: flickr and Kodak.
July 9, 2008
Warning - More Babies
If pictures of one baby is cute – how about three? As we mentioned in the Maine post, we stopped to see a friend of Becky's who had twins last July. Unfortunately we were a week early for their birthday(s), but it was great to finally put real smiles on all those pictures we have seen. Overall it was a few hours of enhanced curiosity by each of the girls as they kept trying to figure why there were more small people than usual. It was a great time, but far too short. The fib of the day goes to Erica: “Oh Tim, the girls just happened to be wearing their Red Sox jumpers today.”
Here's a link to all the pictures: flickr and Kodak.
July 8, 2008
Done East Fourth of July
Most recently she made the 10 hour or maybe it was more like 11 or 12 hours trip to Lubec Me for the fourth of July. Oh the people you'll meet. She faired the trip well and didn't seem to mind meeting and greeting lots of people. She met cousins, aunts, uncles and great grandpa (PaPa). She has now logged close to 10,000 travel miles in her first 4 months -- and fortunately slept for about 9,990 of those.
One our way back from Maine, Colleen had her first night in a motel -- a classy Super 8. We also stopped at in Westbrook to meet Aunt Shirley and Uncle Bill for lunch, and then stopped again in Groten, MA, so we could have a first next-generation meeting of Delandy and McGuinness girls. There we met the twins, Molly and Haley, and had a chance to play and stretch out for a while before heading home.
Here's a link to all the pictures: flickr and Kodak.
April 30, 2008
Spring Break in Florida
Becky and baby had a chance to spend two weeks in Florida with Grampie, Grammie, Aunt Bethe and Uncle Rich. Needles to say there was alot of baby spoiling going on, but how cold you not.
She grew up quite a bit while there coming back much stronger and chatty.
To see more, they are at flickr and Kodak.
December 4, 2006
Chicago - It's Cold
I went out to work convention in Chicago on Sunday through Thursday. I got in early enough on Sunday to head over to Soldier's Field to try to see the Bears and Vikings. It wasn't hard getting a ticket, probably because is was 12 degrees. The game was a disaster with the starting QBs combining for 7 interceptions; both got benched. By the 4th quarter a heat wave rolled in and the temperature hit 20 degrees.
The highlight of the conference week was my rediscovery of Chicago stuffed pizza. Boy I love stuffed pizza.
October 29, 2006
Charlottesville - Monticello
On Sunday we headed over to Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's infamous home. In the picture on the left, Becky is holding up a nickel so we can compare the engraved Monticello to the real thing. Yeah there's not much to add. It was a nice fall day and you should see the pictures.
October 28, 2006
Charlottesville - Univ of Virginia Football
This as a fun day until we went to bed, and then it got bad. The fun was the football game and the time spent around campus and in downtown Charlottesville. I took about 200 pictures, and you can click on this flipping guy to see the good ones. UVA beat NC State in the game.
That was all fun, and then we tried to be grown ups and go to sleep early so we could get up early for Sunday's travels. Good idea? Sure, but the hotel's fire alarm went off around 2 am and we were kept out of our room for an hour because no one knew how to turn the alarm off. Misery.
October 15, 2006
No Buffalo > Annapolis and Corn Maze
The plan for the weekend was to fly to Buffalo for Patrick's birthday, but they got a freak snow and ice storm. On Friday, Terry told us they had no power and were heading to Binghamton where it was a balmy 60 degrees. So we cancelled our flights and did two local trips. On Saturday we went to Annapolis with about a million other people, since Navy had a sell out and the Boat Show was in town.
This is a robotic scarecrow. It looked so freaky that when it looked at you, you felt like you were being watched. We just stared at each other. On Sunday, we headed into western Virginia and found a farm that had a corn maze, and a pumpkin patch. It wasn't better than watching football, but it was a nice thing to do. The highlight is that I learned how to make butter by hand, and I love butter.
August 6, 2006
Land of the Dino's
NY - As mentioned in a prior post, for my birthday Becky bought tickets for me to see the Mets play at Shea on Aug. 5. Part of the package was that we were going to visit the Dino family, where Becky we could see the old Dino's and the newest Dino.
We had a great weekend that centered around the house, but it included pizza, chicken parm, and ice cream cake, so that's a good house to center on.
Eric and I got to see the Mets beat the Phillies. It was my first trip to Shea in 3 years and it was great to see the endangered park again. A large tract of the parking lot is already blocked off as it fills with construction materials to start building the new stadium that is scheduled to open in 2009.
August 2, 2006
Newport Weekend
Newport - We just returned from a great weekend in Newport where we were able to catch up with old friends, eat at some of our favorite places (too busy eating to take a picture), and play old fashioned tourist.
I spent the first two days with the girls, but had to bail out on day 3 so i could get some guy time. My day came down to a long drive around the island to get a couple of Icee's (the new name all the kids will be using for the Dunkin Donut Iced Coffee), and then going back to sit in front of the air conditioner. I was just too tired and hot to keep walking around town.
We stayed at the very nice Mariner House B&B, which allowed us to stay near downtown so we were easily able to walk the city -- until it just got too sticky.
Maybe more later.
-- Tim
July 26, 2006
Shout Out to Newport
NoVA - We're on on way back to Newport, RI, on Friday morning. This will be my longest visit since we left. We already have our food and drink list ready with Sig's Chicken Salad first and then out to Brenton Point.
-- Tim
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Boston 2006
We had a good, long and exausting few days in Boston. The first night was out with the Hef's, Dan and Mary Ellen hosted a boat ride in Boston harbor and then a cook out on the dock. It's very cool having a cookout right on the harbor in teh shadow of Faneill Hall.
The theme of the next few days was "we walked", so along with everything else we did, the assumed story starts with "we walked." Friday was tourist day starting at Faneill Hall and ending up on Newbury Street. Saturday we got to see our friend Dave Alpert or davealpert.com do a show and then Sunday we went to the North End, which is the Little Italy of Boston, to watch the World Cup final of Italy vs. France. It was wild. Police closed the main streets in the area and people flooded local cafe to watch through the front windows.
-- Tim
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Leaving Maine
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Lubec, ME - We are leaving the top-right of Maine tomorrow, having been vacationing with Becky's family in Lubec.
The story of the trip was that Becky's luggage never saw Lubec. Somehow the good people from United could not get it on the same plane that mine was on, so it did not get to Boston with us. From there the unfunny comedy of errors centered around the fact that United seldom knew where the bag was - DC? NY? Boston? Portland? Bangor? - each time we made an attempt to get it. Finally on Monday, we were told the bag was safely stored at the Bangor airport, so we plan to stop there and get on the way back.
The big event was a barbeque at Lisa and Kevin's on Sunday. Monday was Tony's birthday, parade #1, and the fireworks, unfortunately we were too lame to go out. Monday was also THE FIRST TIME in the history of Kevin's boating career that the boat go swamped. It was probably because the fat guy (me) was in the bow (nautical talk for front), so I got drenched from feet to shoulders.
The Maine trip is not completely done; from here, we plan to stay around Old Orchard Beach to see what the big deal is about that.
-- Tim
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Myrtle Beach
Myrtle Beach, SC - We loaded up the new truck and headed down to Myrtle Beach for 4 nights as part of Becky's Spring Break. We managed to get a very nice room located high over the beach on the 16th floor.
Since it was a first visit there for both of us, we didn't have much to go on, but we had a real nice time since the city is based on making tourist happy. Being April, there was still a chill in the air, so there were not too many swimmers. Of course that meant that I had to gave it a try.
Our big regret was not getting to go to Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede -- sold out. The best was my new hat.
-- Tim
March 18, 2006
Buffalo
Buffalo -- Since we missed 'the kids' at Christmas -- they couldn't come to Binghamton, and I wasn't going to go to Buffalo -- we delayed Christmas until we could visit when the weather was more tame.
We had a great time playing with Patrick. When we got there he was playing opossum by crawling around, though we all knew he could walk. Then, as if he just saw a tele-evangelist, he stood up with all the amazement of his first time. Suddenly he was walking all over. He put on a good show.
On Saturday, we had a semi-picnic at Niagara Falls. On Sunday, Terry and I went to the Sabres game. Later we tried to go out, but EVERY bar in downtown Buffalo was closed. The big fun for Monday was a trip to Duff's for wings. Here's a before and after of the carnage.
Posted by at 3:53 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)October 24, 2005
Pumpkinville
Here are some self-serivng pictures that we're sure everyone will ignore from our trip to Punkinville. Since the appeal for viewing the pictures rises 1000% if there is a Patrick tie in, then here it is: See where we found Patrick's pumpkin; it's the orange one, and it's featured thoughout the other photo set that you looked at at least 3 times. The other important note about the hour we spent here at the "Punkin patch", is that we didn't eat during this time. It was the longest stretch of time we had between pizzas all day. Enjoy.
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August 12, 2005
West Coast Tour
We just returned from the West Coast Swing of our summer vacation. We spent 2 nights each in San Francisco, Napa Valley, and then Reno. It was followed by a nice drive through Lake Tahoe on our way back to SF. Here are some pictures from the album and alot below from Flickr:
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