The fifth grade class has a special place in my heart because they were my class last year and therefore were greatly involved in “helping” to plan our wedding. It’s beyond cute how excited they get whenever they see Matt and I walking together or talking. Today took the cake, though. Matt walked into my lab to give me a package my mom had sent. As soon as he walked in, the fifth graders stopped their work, looked at him, and applauded. Yep, my husband is so amazing he gets applause simply for entering a room. That was a great moment.
Phillies Win!
Last Monday and Tuesday were Fall Break here at VCS, so I decided to stay up Monday night and watch what I hoped would be the final game of the World Series. (God bless MLB.tv).
What followed was a game full of excitement, rain, and the first ever World Series game suspended due to rain. So there I was: the middle of the 6th inning, the score tied at 2 watching in disbelief a man with a microphone in his face talk about how they don’t know when they will complete the game. Not hours…days. I crawled into bed disappointed, but hopeful.
Tuesday was more rain.
Wednesday the air was cold, but the sky was clear. Time to finish Game 5. Since I had school the next day I went to sleep early. Or rather I should say I tried to go to sleep early, but giddy anticipation only allowed for about 2 hours of sleep before my watch alarm woke me at 1:30 am. I slipped out of bed and planted myself on the couch just in time to see Geoff Jenkins slam a ball into the left field gap for a lead-off double. This was going to be a good game. I knew it.
It was better than good. After a back and forth struggle Brad Lidge took the mound in the 9th with a 1 run lead, striking out Tampa’s final batter to seal the win, and commence the celebration. A dogpile of jubilation. The Phillies are the World Series champions for the 2nd time in their history and the first time in 28 years.
And though I was a bit tired Thursday morning, you couldn’t wipe the smile off my face. Not that day.
Vienna Night Run
I ran the Vienna Night run with some other staff and students. The almost 4 kilometer route began and ended at the Rathaus (Vienna’s City Hall). Even though I’d only actually trained for about 2 weeks (after a 6 month layoff) and was fighting off a cold, I enjoyed the run through Vienna’s inner city and the post race entertainment.
I must admit I was spellbound by a rather portly Austrian man juggling and twirling various things he lit on fire. I think my favorite were the nunchucks.
Really, though, can you ever go wrong with nunchucks? Especially flaming
nunchucks.
More pictures from the race are here:
Vienna Night Run Pictures
Welcome to the Jungle
Matt turned 30 this year. Actually, his birthday was a couple weeks before mine, but I blogged mine first. Tells you about my priorities. 🙂
Anyway, I threw him a “Welcome to the (30’s) Jungle” monkey themed party. It was a fun time of celebrating my favorite monkey. You can see pictures on our Flickr site here. The most popular gift of the night was the flying/screaming monkey. You send it flying like a sling shot and it does a crazy banshee scream when it hits something. A little scary when it comes at you, but mostly just fun.
The fun fact we all learned about Matt is that he has apparently played Barrel of Monkeys a lot because he pretty much always wins.
Happy Birthday Matt!
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