June 13, 2006
Football Fun
Humoring my husband, AND because I find it interesting, I have been watching our videotaped world cup games in the evenings with him. Giving away how non-athletic I am, my favorite part has been watching the adidas commercials titled "Impossible is Nothing". They are genius and beautiful. I only saw the aesthetic beauty, however, until tim started dissecting the commercials in slow play pointing out all of the little idiosyncrasies and ironies included for all those soccer fans out there...
Oliver Khan's dropped ball (goal for Portugal) during the 2002 final world cup.
Beckenbauer (new pres of Fifa) being digitally pasted into the commercials...tim
pointing out his 1970s clothes in a slide tackle, cutting before you see his face.
Famous footwork by particular players
It's amazing how interconnected the football world is.... how tim can watch a 30 second football commercial…in Spanish… and spend 15 minutes explaining all the parts to me.
To view the commercials:
Which players would be on your impossible team?
June 12, 2006
Screen on the Green
We missed it last year being in Africa. Too dark for photos.
I love watching a film with Atlantans in Piedmont Park.
June 1: A Hard Day's Night
June 8: The Wiz
June 15: Ferris Bueller's Day Off
June 22: Breakfast at Tiffany's
June 29: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
June 5, 2006
Our Trip
In a mad rush the morning before our flight, which we ended up missing by 3 minutes (you need to be checked in 45 min early),
we discovered that tim's driver's license had expired on his last birthday. Ari became the driver, adding another couple hundred dollars to our car bill b/c she is still a babe (24).
After a rainy first night at Mt. Rain-on-me National Park and traveling through Tacoma for church, we went straight to Silver Falls State Park
outside of Salem
.
From Salem we were able to try some wine
and tour Portland...love the bookstore.
Out of curiosity, and having no kids yet in our life, we decided to run across the cascades
to The Bend
in our Part-Time Cruiser
to camp
and see how much Oregon changes from Valley over Mountains to Desert.
On our way to see some old friends from Geneva OPC in their new home of Grants Pass
we stopped by Crater Lake National Park
to play in the snow
and see a baby bear. (No mom in sight, which freaked ari out.)
Returning to the airport in Seattle, we decided to head south into CA to see some red wood forests
and drive up the beautiful, but rainy coast of Oregon
so we could enjoy some of the true Rouge brews in Newport 
(our newest home brew is a clone of Rouge's Dead Guy and has matured into wonderful tasting ale.)
Our trip is now finished,
we're now home, our bags finally arrived safely, and we're longing for the moderate temperatures, the clean air, and all the state owned property of Oregon (alright, maybe that's just me).
BTW: Moms and Dads...I love having a SLR-digital camera. Thanks.
