Extra innings

We won some tickets to a box suite at a Twin game through a raffle at the kids' school. It was a good game, with the Twins winning in 12 innings!

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Grandma Linda turns 70

"A privilege denied to many."

We got this shot of the whole family on the first and only try. Everybody's eyes are open and looking at the camera, even the little ones!

Little Alice kind of took the spotlight in my photos.

Good friends:

Dinner time:

Salvi is getting so big!

Alice couldn't get enough of her auntie:

Yard Yahtzee enthusiasts:

Lily pad fun:

Fire truck in a fire pit:

A visitor on the dock:

It was a fun weekend. Happy birthday, Linda!

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Beetlejuice & Addams Family showcase

Veronica was in a theater camp last week, and we got to see a showcase of her work on Friday. She sang and danced in quite a few more songs, but here is a succinct video taken with my iPhone that includes one skit and one song. Enjoy!

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iPhone shots from Folk Fest 2023

Okay, so here is the iPhone version of the trip. You may have seen some of these on Instagram already, but I like to include them here too for completion and to reach the additional audience.

Here we are at the tarp on the first, rainy night (minus Veronica and Ezra, who were out wandering):

View of the stage:

Wish I would have captured this scene with my big camera, but my phone was, as usual, more readily available:

Gotta bring the cheese balls:

Lennon in the hammock:

There were no whale tails being sold this year, so churros were the daily fried bread of choice:

Glad these two long-haired guys got along so well (for two-thirds of the trip anyway):

Pre-show run on the tarps:

Watching The War on Drugs show:

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Family selfie by R (and proof I was there):

That's it for this year. Now that the kids are older and COVID is over, I have a feeling we'll be returning more regularly.

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Winnipeg Folk Fest 2023

Hard to believe it has been four years since our last Winnipeg Folk Festival!

 

We returned last weekend with Grandma Linda and two of our nephews.

It took a few days for us to get back into the rhythm of the festival. The crowd seemed a lot bigger this year.

There were also restrictions on professional-looking cameras. I had to be more careful and did not get nearly as many images of the performers as I would have liked. I also had to deal with some heavy rain the first night.

I did get these pics of KT Tunstall:

 

And these of Fleet Foxes:

It was fun to see the cousins getting along so well:

The weather was cooler than usual, and it really only rained on Thursday evening, so that was a win.

I am a huge fan of EmmyLou Harris's album Wrecking Ball and was thrilled to hear her perform a couple of songs off it.

Gustavo was back in the kids' tent!

Our crew is in there with big smiles:

We stayed back from the festival on Saturday night to take showers and have dinner/s'mores at the campsite.

It stays light out so late around there... these photos of the pajama boys must have been taken around 10pm:

Sunday was my favorite day for music. I was at the sandbox with Omri during most of Faye Webster's main stage set, but I caught her during a workshop in the afternoon:

Vance Joy was a big hit with the crowd (you can see a security guy here making sure nobody was getting up close for photos):

And they saved the best for last... The War On Drugs:

Here's a little video clip I took... This ruled so hard: 

One last shot of the boys from my Canon (I'll put some iPhone shots up in my next post):

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The 4th of July in Coon Rapids

A handful of reasons kept us from going up north for the 4th this year. We missed seeing family, but at least the four of us were together (for most of it) and we celebrated with some friends on a lake in Coon Rapids.

Now it's time to think about upcoming adventures...

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String lights

I wish I'd gotten these lights up about two months ago because we missed out on some good ambience the weekends we had guests.

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