8-8-08 and the Day After

Posted on | August 10, 2008 | No Comments

8-8-08

Last night, we let the boys stay up and watch the Olympics opening ceremonies until the US team took their part in the parade of nations. It was pretty late for them (almost 10 pm) and even though NM wanted to keep watching, they had to get to bed. I’m sure that, in many respects, it was a disappointment to both of them: the Olympics are about sports, what’s up with the long, long, long, long parade? J gave up and played with his Hotwheels but NM started reading the country names with me and paying attention to the voice over. I was looking forward to the clothes and wondering what they would look like because of Project Runway.* I have to say, while many were smartly dressed I much preferred the native costumes that were worn by the countries with the smaller groups of delegations.

My favorite comments from Bob Costas (I assume it was him) went something like this: “For the first time, the UAE sends two women athletes. They are the president’s daughters but I’m sure that has nothing to do with why they’re here.”

Good: George and Laura were there and so were so many other leaders as a result. Most of those athletes put in a lot of work to make it there and it was a great thing that they were so honored.

Bad: We didn’t put on our hats and take pictures. SO SORRY, LOLA! We didn’t know where J’s was and didn’t want to have to worry about his response. We’ll look for it and then take photos when they’re watching actual sporting events (J thinks the only interesting one is water polo). So eventually we’ll send Lola the photo so she can see us in the hats that she brought back from Beijing when she went over Easter vacation.

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The Day After
That is, of course, today. More photos here.

St. Marys Catholic Church, Fredricksburg, TX

St. Mary's Catholic Church, Fredricksburg, TX

We got up a lot earlier than you would think when you consider the loss of two hours of sleep. Well, when the tummy needs to be filled it can be that way. We went to one of our favorite places to eat, Kerbey Lane Cafe. For the most part, as long as it isn’t fried, NM can eat there since they take care to use only natural ingredients (their oil unfortunately has preservatives). Their food is so yummy. How can you go wrong with strawberry chocolate chip pancakes? J and I can testify that they were goooood and so worth the wait.

Afterwards, we went home and packed a few things: snacks, water, swim gear (just in case) and–whee!–the puppy and her stuff. We figure she’s getting her second set of shots this week so it’s ok to take her. She was so excited to go, too, it was cute. Sprocket had a hard time waiting to get in the truck. Not bad considering her last ride in the truck was pretty boring for her. She just enjoys the company. Oh…dogs get car sick. I won’t elaborate.

We headed out to F’burg and got out and walked for a very little bit. I wanted to see the window of the shop that sold antler art. Hey, I was curious. I almost went inside but there was no one else save the person behind the counter. We went further on to a really neat shop called Red. I love, love, love the stuff in that shop! That was just about the highlight of my day. And their walls? My favorite shade of robin’s egg blue. I’m thinking I want my bedroom in that. It would go perfectly with my red sheets and (one day) linen duvet. NM said walking around in that shop was one of the highlights of his day, I kid you not. He’s too cool.

The puppy is still a hater about the leash. She still has to get dragged, the poor thing. Ok, we did carry her across the street so she wouldn’t have to be dragged across hot asphalt. That is her preferred method of transportation.

After F’burg, we drove back out and looked for peaches to buy. Hubby tried some at the first place we stopped (not many stands are open anymore) and bought a bag of them because they were really good. Right next door was a place we stopped at during our last trip out there that was selling peach cobblers. This time, we actually did get one instead of walking away empty-handed. I have no idea how it tastes yet but I’ll let you know soon because I plan to get myself a slice once I get this post completed.

We would have done more exploring however my hubby is still trying to fight the bug he has that is making him feel bad. But I think because our walk in town was so short, it didn’t get anyone too bored so we did have a nice time. So did Sprocket, who slept on the way home.

*Project Runway is my guilty pleasure. I love the premise of a challenge and then watching the different approaches that people take to solve it (reminds me of art school days). This season, their second challenge was to design an outfit for the US women athletes to possibly wear at the Parade of Nations ceremony. Unfortunately, the winning design wasn’t used.

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