Townsend 275th Anniversary Parade

Today Townsend celebrated its 275th anniversary. There was what the town officials called a "Super" Parade. It was two hours long, and there were many vendors selling goods out on the town common. There was even a guy selling brisket, pulled pork, and ribs across the street from my house. Hmmmmm pork products are tasty.

Townsend 275th Anniversary Parade

Morgan's Pirate Party

Morgan's 5th birthday party went well. It was a pirate theme, and I dressed up for the occasion. We had a fun treasure map that lead the children around the house looking for clues that lead to more clues. My favorite clue told them to pop balloons to find a hidden clue inside one of the balloons. That clue lead them to the X spray painted on the ground telling them were to dig. The kids squealed with delight when they opened the treasure chest to discover all the great candy. Jay had sent up chocolate coins before the party and that really added to the look.

We played pin the parrot on Captain Morgan's shoulder. I had drawn the character from the rum bottle on poster board and colored him in. The winner of that game got to hold the key that opened the treasure chest from the previous paragraph.

Even the ants enjoyed the spoils of cotton candy left over at the end. I later burned them with starter fluid. Fire is COOL!

Morgan's Party

San Diego

I went to San Diego for two days on business. I'd never been to the west coast before, and had never felt jet lag. I woke up both days at 4am thinking it was 7. I did get to check out the Pacific and saw an air craft carrier, but I didn't have my camera then. I also saw a little of the oil lamp district but nothing note worthy.

The Boeing 757 going down to San Diego was like that crappy old bus you rode on for school field trips. The plane had duck tape holding the light fixtures together and the paint on the wings was chipping off. The old TV monitors were straight from the 80s and their plastic had yellowed and cracked. I felt really safe!

I had bought new shoes for work and they were not broken in yet and I started developing blisters so I ended up staying close to the hotel. Luckily the coolest mall I have ever been to was attached to the hotel. It was an open air mall with many ramps and stairs leading in all directions. It reminded me of the modern painting of stairs going in all directions in ways that are not logical.





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San Diego

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I wanted to add a cool slideshow to my blog. I've been experimenting with picture websites and I really like snapfish but I could not figure out how to show my slideshow on my blog, plus people have to log in to see my pics. This slide show is done by Picasa which is not as fancy but its easy to use and I can do my slideshow.

As of Sept 17, 2007 I have three slideshows on my blog and have found that they seem to be slowing performance a bit, so I'm going to use a hyperlink that brings you to the slideshow in picasa for all my historical posts. Current posts will still show the pretty slideshow and provide the hyperlink.

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