The local paper, the Telegraph, sponsors a vintage car show each summer at the parking lot of its building. Patrick and Susanna went today. Here are some highlights:
This DeLorean has gullwing doors. See? We are flapping our wings like seagulls. Dumb trivia: Original DeLorean TV ads had actual seagulls in them to illustrate.
Most cars were offlimits to touch and everything else, but the DeLorean owner invited the kids into the car–nice guy!
Those windows were so weird.
Peters Nissan was a sponsor, and they parked his weird thing–the 2009 nissan Cube–here and PAtrick and Susanna were duly impressed.
Despite evidence to the contrary in these pictures, most of the cars were awesome vintage vehicles…click on flickr photoframe to the right if you’re interested in more…but we’ll leave you with this shot of detail-oriented Patrick checking out the Super Bee markings on an (I think) ‘69 Plymouth Super Bee.
When Patrick goes over to his grandparents’ each Wednesday, he’s got plenty of things to do. One is building marble rolls out of these special blocks called Cuboros, which have holes and tracks and secret passages. The main point is, you can build ‘em as complicated as you want but you’ve got to respect gravity or the marble won’t go.
Here’s one he created with Pop’s help. They were so proud of it that he took a quick vid:
The Rivier Early Childhood Center, where Patrick went for preschool and where Pinkie now goes, celebrates spring with the Revels every year. The kids decorate T-shirts (themed by classroom), parade across the college campus, and dance and sing around maypoles—lots of fun.
Here’s Pinkie’s class heading for the quad:
This year’s theme for her class was butterflies:
Once the maypole dance was over, teachers handed out these wind wands to the Cameleopardis kids. (That’s Susanna’s class—all the classes are named after constellations.)
After a semester in Winchester (the one in Merrie Olde Englande), Allison is back stateside with wondrous tales of walkabouts in locales such as Venice, Paris, Vienna, Germany, Budapest, Easter Mass in Rome, and parts elsewhere. Mom and the kids did their best to mark her return with gusto.
Dad decided to introduce Patrick to the wide world of camping this last weekend of May. After one night at the site (Hinsdale Campground, Hinsdale, NH), pal Ed Murray and his two daughters Claire and Olivia joined them on Saturday, along with Dolby the dog.
Friday night, Dinty Moore beef stew and s’mores. Saturday for breakfast, hash browns and eggs!
Saturday was great weather. Here’s Claire, Patrick and Olivia stylin’ poolside.
Patrick enjoyed the flora, fauna, birdsongs, and this little guy who joined us for dinner Saturday.
Ed busted out these monstrous four-foot sparklers for each kid for the big pre-s’mores fireside finale Saturday night, which proved worthy of their placement in the billing.
Claire approved.
Patrick was likewise stoked.
En garde, sista!
Ed impressed us (well, at least Dolby) with his fire-eating routine.
And, because my lame little Canon point-and-shoot does video…and YouTube is free…here’s your gratuitous sparkler video, kids!
Those kids can’t get enough of Hampton Beach, so I say Daddy Fridays are perfect (as in, the beach isn’t overrun with weekend meatheads from out-of-town, looking for love).
A couple more pix, this from Don and Susanna’s trip to Ohio for his high school buddy Gary Nafziger’s wedding earlier this month…and to spend some quality time with Archbold family:
Grandma Fluckinger has “the touch” for braiding (fussy) Susanna’s hair. Who knew?
An indoor playground at the new Evan church was just what Susanna needed.
Cousin Rachel had graduated (master’s in education) the night before; Susanna thought it was all worth it just to get the cap.
Quality puzzle time with Aunt June, who will forever be an elementary school teacher at heart.
Don’s dad Merlin, at the nursing home.
Juan Rolon and Don, his wife Julie, daughters Aubrey and Bella, and Susanna at the reception.
Apparently you don’t throw rice at the happy couple after the wedding anymore. Susanna likes the alternative–pom-poms. Juan and Don spiced things up by adding a couple quarters to their handfuls with which they showered the groom as he walked by.
Nice ride for the couple to drive off in…beats a lame limo, huh?
Thursday night, Don with groom Gary and groomsman Mark Frey (yeah, that is him with the stache)…chillin’ in Da Club.
Well, we have new cell phones. We actually downgraded from Sprint to a pay-as-you-go plan because we weren’t usinga tenth of the bandwidth we were paying for…and the great bonus? Even our more basic camera phones do what Sprint didn’t…they Bluetooth the pictures over to our computers.
(For those who don’t know, Sprint disables that feature and makes users pay to get pictures from their camera to their computers…no Bluetooth connection, no cabling them over…one of the reasons we waved bye-bye to those clowns.)
Anyway, here are the firstfruits of our new camera cells, which give us a chance to take pictures when we don’t bring our real camera along but experience bloggable moments to share!
Yesterday’s Memorial Day parade:
Dad’s over the shoulder shot of sleepyhead while cruising the N.Y. Thruway to Ohio:
So, New Hampshire has many hilltop/mountaintop roads that offer supreme vista views. “My” one of these–I lived nearby for several years and still to this day consider it mine–is Pead Hill Road off Center Road in Lyndeboro…it’s a short road, it gives just a little peak at the northern Monadnock range…and it’s not White Mountains majestic…but it gets the job done. This is five shots put together (thanks Kate) in a panorama, and it kind of (but not really–you’ll have to go there yourself) conveys the view.Actually, WordPress can’t make it big-n-wide…click in the picture in the frame to the right and see it in its actual glory…
