Non-Seabreeze Day

Today was supposed to be our big day at Seabreeze, an amusement park not far from us. We were so looking forward to it; it's been several years since we've gone to an amusement park. With the extra hot weather we've had lately, we were looking forward to cooling down in the waterpark, floating around the Lazy River, and enjoying roller coasters and tilt-a-whirls all day. Instead of a sunny, warm day, we were the victims of typical NY weather. Suddenly it's been cold and barely 60 degrees this week. After considering the forecast & the prospect of losing out on half the rides in the park, we decided to change plans for the day. We instead went to the Clubhouse for putt-putt golf and then to our friends' house for dinner and games. All in all it still turned out to be a fun day off, and hopefully we'll still get to Seabreeze - once it's hot and sizzly again.

More mini golf pictures on Picasa -

165th NY

Friends and comrades - We miss you guys! --

Picasa Working

I was able to delete my temporary internet files to get Picasa working again. I've been getting 'error code 1' every time I try to upload lately, which won't let me do anything.

Anyway - the link with the rest of the Father's Day photos is here -

Father's Day

We enjoyed a wonderful Father's Day down at the lake with the rest of my family. The temperature was perfect as was our first attempt at kabobs! More photos on Picasa (eventually - it's not working for me right now).

Dance Review

WOW! The dance recital on Friday was amazing. The whole show - from music to costumes to choreography was unbelievable. We knew many of the dancers that performed. The theme was 'Dance Through The Ages' so the music and dance styles were very diverse. Of course, everyone's favorite is always the Irish dancers. They have done soft shoe in the past but this year also did hard shoe. The final dance of the night was their hard shoe performance to Simple Gifts. The song got faster & faster at the end, and it was amazing how fast those girls' feet moved! It was also amazing to see their teacher, Maureen, perform (original member of Riverdance). I've never seen anyone kick their leg and knee up so high and effortlessly, specifically at a live show. I didn't get any pictures myself - I'll try to get a few up eventually - but in the meantime, our friend Jeremy took some great pictures on his new camera, so you can check out his mini-slideshow on their blog.

Dance Recital

We're headed out of town to spend the weekend at the lake again. Tonight is the girls' dance recital and, as always, we're looking forward to seeing the Irish dance presentation. Tonight the girls' teacher, an original member of Riverdance, will also being doing a special performance. Should be exciting! Hopefully Madison will do OK being out so late past her bedtime.

Almost Tornado

Looks like we missed some pretty severe weather in Nebraska yesterday. The report of the Boy Scout camp that was hit in Iowa was awful to hear - 3 of the deaths were boys from Omaha. Saw Gov. Dave on CNN at the news conference they held this morning. I haven't been able to get on the Omaha World Herald site all day but from CNN's report, it sounds like at least one of the boys that was killed was a strong Christian.

The Lincoln Journal Star posted some storm pictures including the one below - the clouds on the right show a partially formed funnel cloud. Rather scary since we lived not far from there.