The Green Monsta

We took in an evening game at the famed Fenway Park while on our trip. The stadium was packed and the Sox actually hit a few homers that night in a win against the Marlins. Ty's favorite part was enjoying the delicacies of the ballpark including a Fenway frank and a big pretzel.

Our Governor Knows Good Pizza

How random is this?


As noted, we were traveling in Boston and decide to stop for lunch at the famous Regina Pizza in the North End. Ty and I had just ordered and were siting at a booth near the back of the restaurant. In walks an entourage of well dressed men in suits wearing earpieces. They are followed in by none other than the Governor of the State of Texas, Rick Perry. Yes, our governor, in a pizza joint in Boston at the same time we're there.


I stood up and said hello as he approached our table and identified us as living back in his home turf. He sat down next to Ty and we all chatted for several minutes. Apparently he had just concluded some business meetings nearby and was playing tourist and having a famous pizza lunch just like us. He was extremely friendly and later posed with Ty for the photo posted here.

One if By Land

With a good pair of sneakers and the enthusiasm of following a brick line almost 2 miles, Ty trekked the whole Freedom Trail in downtown Boston. Cloud cover helped keep us cool, but he was so excited to see anything Paul Revere related, the heat didn't really matter.

Here is Ty in front of the Paul Revere statue with the famed Old North Church visible in the distance. Afterwards we stopped for lunch in the North End, where we encountered a famous face from today's political world. More on that in our next post.

Yankee Doodle

Stuck a feather in his cap, and called it macaroni. Ty tried on a 3 corner hat inside one of the shops. Not sure the t-shirt is authentic 18th century clothing though.

Meanwhile, just outside at Faneuil Hall in Boston, A HUGE piece of macaroni.

A-Maze-ing Ty

This past weekend we ventured to the Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria for an interesting diversion. The museum had commissioned artists to construct miniature golf holes along the grounds. 


Here Ty poses inside a narrow passage that was a tunnel maze wrapped around one of the holes. The instructions read to take a victory lap through here after sinking your ball. Ty took two laps as Dad couldn't get all the way inside, but I managed to get in for this cute photo.

The Puffer Fish

One of the most fun projects kids get to do are dioramas.Ty's class was given choices of sea creatures and he landed with the exotic Puffer Fish. This presented us with some great ideas for creating its habitat in a shoe box.


Ty completed the project last night and poses above with the finished diorama, which turned out great. However, Dad was trying to make sure that the Puffer Fish suspended in the background stayed put by adding some superglue to the backside. Well that turned out to have not been a great idea as the glue rolled off the sides and caused my finger to adhere to the foam ball. After it dried, a piece of the fish remained super-glued to Dad's finger much to Ty's amusement. He took the picture below.
 

Awards MC

Monday morning the parents of the 2nd grade gathered again in the cafeteria for the semester awards ceremony. Recently, they have given select students the opportunity to stand up on stage to read the names of the award winners. This time around Ty had the opportunity to do that, which he did with great poise and diction. He also took home two awards himself: one for leadership and one for perfect attendance.

Back to the Desert

Another spring break in the desert with Gram and G-Pop. Lots of sunshine every day meant no shortage of fun outdoor activities. Besides swimming every day at the resort, we enjoyed mini golf and horseback riding!


More photos are posted here on our Flickr page for you to view.

Hoop It Up

Altitude - Game 2, originally uploaded by TexKap.

The winter sports season has begun and Ty is already elbowing and shooting his way to stardom on his YMCA basketball team. As the team's leading scorer, he is definitely using height to his advantage.

Click through on the photo to see more images from his second game.

Austin New Year

Wishing all our friends and family a Happy New Year!