Back to School Today

The 2007/2008 school year started today. Below you'll see our annual first day of school pictures.

Hotel Room

A family portrait in our hotel room because we were dressed up for a nice dinner.

New York Mets

The boys (all three of us) rode the "7" train to Queens to see the Mets play in Shea Stadium. The Mets won 3-1. The Mets have a new stadium under construction right next to Shea. It was cool to see Citi Field, which will open in 2009. We had great seats on the Mezzanine Level directly behind home plate.

South Street Seaport

We ran down to the Seaport to buy 1/2 price tickets to a Broadway show at the Ticket Development Center on Friday morning. We got seat to the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. We saw it Friday night at the Circle in the Square Theater on Broadway. After the show we walked back to the hotel through Times Square.

Little Italy

We went to dinner on Thursday in Little Italy.

We've been running around so much there is no time to blog!

Saratoga

We had a great time at the races (check out the rail birds above). We did not win any money, but the track is beautiful, and the racing was great. We sat in the grandstand. You can see that attendance was up on opening day.


I had this horse (#10 named Si O No) in the first. I played him to Win, Place and Show at 8-1. He was in super postion, in second, around the final turn. The leader was ahead by two. He moved to the inside to pass the leader, and the leader fell down. He had to jump the leader and got hit in the back leg, losing all chance. He finished 7th. I should have stopped betting right then. The leader was OK. I guess he just slipped. A couple more photos are inserted below. We are at the Amtrak station in Albany, waiting on the 12:05 to NYC.

Game Six

Joey's team won Game Six 3-1. The team they beat had only lost once going into the game. Joey played first, pitched three shotout innings, and played right field in the sixth. So they finished 3-3 and go into the tournament in the middle of the pack.

We are on our way to Saratoga for the day.

Madelyn Can Play Too

Madelyn was keeping up with the boys in a wiffle ball game.