20170803 - UPGRADE!

20170803 - Up in the am and we jumped on the bus to get downtown. We started walking and D realized he lost his wallet so e ran back to the bus that hadn't left yet and found his wallet, lucky boy... we walked to the location of the boston Tea Party and saw the replica ship. We then headed downtown to walk on the freedom trail.

I spent a bunch of time on the phone trying to get baseball tickets for tonight's game, however we have been issued tickets for the 8/14 game. One slight problem, we won't be in Boston then... So I followed the fam as they headed down the freedom trail on the phone selling the tickets for the 8/14. I got those listed on StubHub and then headed a couple of blocks the opposite direction of the freedom trail to get hop on hop off bus tickets. I met up with D who waited back for me and we hiked halfway across Boston to meet up with LJ&G we found in a cemetery listening to stories of Paul Revere, John Hancock and my favorite Samuel Adams.

G was busy correcting the tour guide as we made our way to the Boston Commons and our tour concluded. We walked around the park and ended up a having a meal around the square that we topped off with fried Oreos. We jumped on the bus and headed to Paul Revere's house and the Old North Church. After that we met up with my buddy Paul and we walked to the USS Constitution and some ice cream.

Feeling guilty about being in Boston and not getting D&G to a Red Sox game, so I snagged some tickets at 5:30 for the 7:10 game :-o My buddy Paul put us on the right train and DG&I headed to the Green Monster while he took L&J to the finish line of the Boston Marathon and to the top of the Prudential building where they had a great view of the city and he taught J how to eat oysters. Paul also took L&J to the bar in the Green Monster to see the field and then got them on a bus back to the hotel. DG&I made it to the game as it started and we had pretty good seats. We had hot dogs and a couple of drinks and were enjoying the crowd, it was electric!

Then something amazing happened. A guy walked up to D&G and asked them if they were together; they looked at me like 'should we answer this guy?'. I leaned over and said 'yes'. He said 'so all 3 of you are together?' 'Yes' again, he said 'come with me'. I rushed the boys out of there seats and we followed the man down the steps and he pointed and said 'go wait for me down there'. Well 'down there' was the baseball field. I mean THE BASEBALL FIELD. The man caught up with us and took up to some seats right up against the wall behind 1st base. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! The most AMAZING seats I have ever seen!

We sat ringside for the remainder of the through 'Sweet Caroline' and 'Take me out the Ballgame'. What are the odds of everything falling into place for this to happen? Needless to say D&G were in heaven and got some of the dirt from the field after the Red Sox victory over the White Sox.  We headed to the bus stop, waited forever, but got on a bus and headed back to the hotel. We met up with L&J and everyone told of their awesome experiences of the night. What a great day!

100526 - Golf sucking confirmation

100526 - Up early and over to the office for all day meeting. I learned a lot about what others do here and gave a presentation on what I do to the sales team (it went very well). After work we all headed to a small par 3 golf course where we had a little tournament...
At dinner awards were given for a hole in one, the best team score and the worse team score. Yeah baby, u know I was on the worse team! We had a great dinner, met a lot of new folks and had a very fun and productive day. Back to the hotel stuffed and tired.

News from home: Howdy called me tonight with news that he got a hit every time he was up tonight, and one was a TRIPLE!!!! Way to go Howdy!!!

100525 + Play Date & Fly

100525 + Up and working, L took D&J to a playdate that they reported was quite bizare... JG&I walked back to school and met D and walked home with him.

The fam then dropped me off at the airport and I headed to Boston. I met up with Cindy & Lee and we made it to dinner at outback and our hotel. We did pass the memorial of Bunker Hill on the way.

100428 - X-RAYED

100428 -  Up, morning and over to the office for a meeting with Ivo and Rien.  We then went to the 'All hands meeting' to get an update on how the company is doing.  Then Cindy, Lee, Ivo and I headed out for lunch, where we were able to sample Josh's home brewed beer, very good!  Then on to the airport where I received my first full body x-ray at security :-o  I couldn't get on an earlier flight so I killed a couple of hours doing mail and a presentation.  J had a Dr. appointment today to get evaluated for OCD and ADD (wonder where he gets that???)  L and the boys picked me up at the airport in their jammies.  Got them home and to bed.  L tried to stay up and watch 'The Time Travelers Wife'.  I locked down my facebook account and watched Spartacus until late.

100427 - Up and over to the office for an all day meeting followed by a big dinner.  We tried a couple of geocaches and found one for Ivo.  Back to the room to watch LOST.

100426 + Fort Independence

100426 - Up and had a couple calls this am, all work finished up by 2. Spent some time w/ the boys and G ran to the bank with me. Said goodbye to them and L dropped me at the airport, heading to Boston. On the way in to land our jet was side by side with another jet and I got this picture of it as we passed over Fort Independence.
Got off the plane and met up w/ Cindy & Lee. We got to the rental car place and right next to it was a little league baseball game where the Boston Mets (same name as D's team) were playing (both D&J had games tonight that I would have missed, but were rained out). We got the car and headed for the resturant. We met Evan, Rien & Ivo there for a really good dinner. Then to the hotel, checked in and ready for a couple days of meetings (& hopefully some geocaching).

Location:Waterloo St,Lowell,United States

100425 - Up and everyone to church, G still not going to his own class, has to be with L...  Home and L and Nicole took off to Newcomerstown to Steve's concert and dinner. D&J building stuff (guns and rocket launchers out of misc pieces of pipe w/ the hot glue gun) in shop, G nap.  It was rainy so to get us out of the house we took a trip to Gander Mountain to look at guns.  We got dinner at Culver's, which was good, except for when G dropped his chocolate milkshake on my foot :-(  On the way home we hit a couple of geocaches and found a cool new skate-park we want to try out some day.  When the battery died we gave up on the geocaching and headed over to Joe's to check on Mary and drop off Avatar.  Home got the boys cleaned up and to bed.  I stayed up waiting on L, watching Spartacus & touching up the Winger coat of arms.

100424 + Up and fixing things that have been sitting around waiting for attention...  D&I went to his baseball practice and hung out until they canceled it because of rain.  So D&I ran some errands and had a good time together.  When we got back home DJG&I watched 'Predator', they were a bit scared, but REALLY liked it.  We got some pizza for dinner and it is still raining, so we stayed inside tonight and watched Avatar, what a great movie!  After all boys to bed L&I stayed up and putting historic info in sequence to upload to blog some day...

090428 - Boston