Knoxville, TN
September 10 -12, 2010
I’ve been home all of three days and it’s time to roll again. I’m off to Knoxville, TN to watch the Ducks play the Volunteers.
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What a fabulous time! The people of Knoxville seem to be the nicest people in the world. Our Ducks struggled prior to a torrential rain storm that delayed the game over an hour. I’ve never been so wet in my life. Our seats were near the top of the stadium, a stadium that seats over 100,000 people mind you, and the process of exiting the seating area after the officials called for a break in the action prevented us from making it under cover before the rain storm. People use the expression of it raining buckets... I always thought that was an exaggeration being from the drizzly northwest... well now I know it actually exists... particularly in Neyland Stadium. Along with the rain we got to see some fabulously powerful lightning bolts as well. And I’m not just referring to the Ducks offense in the second half. More than once during the storm I could feel the static electricity in my hair. All in all I’m hard pressed to come up with a way this trip could have been more fun. We experienced an awesome storm, our Ducks won and the hotel even gave us free breakfast at 1:30am when we returned home from the game.
Thanks people of Knoxville. I had a fabulous time.
Katy
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Monday, September 6, 2010
TNC Does the Shore: Part 5
LBI
August 27 - September 6, 2010
TNC takes on The Shore Part Five has commenced! Like last year we are taking the red eye to PHL. Unfortunately our flight out of Eugene is delayed. We were planning to kill some of our three hour layover in San Fran getting dinner but the delay led us to have dinner at the Wings Bar and Grill in the airport. During dinner a commercial for the US Open Tennis Tournament came on TV. Ryan suggested that we should go to match one of these years we are at the shore. Robin, however, thought that would be a bad idea since evidently the US Open is played in London ;~)
Upon arrival at SFO, we wanted dessert and more specifically soft serve ice cream. Unfortunately after cruising all over the place, including the international terminal, I confirmed there is no place to purchase soft serve in SFO. Eventually we settled for milkshakes at Rosie’s Diner.
Our flight to PHL was smooth and relatively quick. Per the usual I slept most of the time. I wanted to get a decent rest because my plan once we arrived in Philly was to have breakfast with the family and then drive to New York to attempt to shoot another hoop picture. I wasn’t super pleased in retrospect with the picture I took last time on Governor's Island. I wanted to try it again but unfortunately to accomplish this I had to go on the weekend because the Island is only open Fri, Sat and Sunday.
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Time got away from me on this trip because we were too busy having too much fun. I ended up getting a great shot on Governor’s Island. We played a lot of hotly contested Uno and Bocce on the beach. Our weather was fantastic and Joe and Han-Mei made a wonderful addition to our group. I’m looking forward to next year already!
Katy
August 27 - September 6, 2010
TNC takes on The Shore Part Five has commenced! Like last year we are taking the red eye to PHL. Unfortunately our flight out of Eugene is delayed. We were planning to kill some of our three hour layover in San Fran getting dinner but the delay led us to have dinner at the Wings Bar and Grill in the airport. During dinner a commercial for the US Open Tennis Tournament came on TV. Ryan suggested that we should go to match one of these years we are at the shore. Robin, however, thought that would be a bad idea since evidently the US Open is played in London ;~)
Upon arrival at SFO, we wanted dessert and more specifically soft serve ice cream. Unfortunately after cruising all over the place, including the international terminal, I confirmed there is no place to purchase soft serve in SFO. Eventually we settled for milkshakes at Rosie’s Diner.
Our flight to PHL was smooth and relatively quick. Per the usual I slept most of the time. I wanted to get a decent rest because my plan once we arrived in Philly was to have breakfast with the family and then drive to New York to attempt to shoot another hoop picture. I wasn’t super pleased in retrospect with the picture I took last time on Governor's Island. I wanted to try it again but unfortunately to accomplish this I had to go on the weekend because the Island is only open Fri, Sat and Sunday.
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Time got away from me on this trip because we were too busy having too much fun. I ended up getting a great shot on Governor’s Island. We played a lot of hotly contested Uno and Bocce on the beach. Our weather was fantastic and Joe and Han-Mei made a wonderful addition to our group. I’m looking forward to next year already!
Katy
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