One of those “master of the obvious” statements, but I’m next to my daughter who is doing her homework on her Chromebook saying “OK Google” to get information about Bedouins in the Middle Ages from Wikipedia.
Holy crap, the things our kids take for granted…
Through work, my wife got 4 nice tickets to the Knicks game last night. Our girls have never been to an NBA game (Victoria had never been to Madison Square Garden) so it sounded like fun, even if the Knicks are horrible.
And these were very nice seats.
The seats came with $20 per ticket to spend on stuff. At first that seemed really odd to me. Why would any normal person buy tickets like that? When we got there it was obvious. Normal people don’t buy these seats.
These seats were on the same level as the fancy suites. We weren’t in a suite, but we had nice cushioned seats with a TV screen and we could walk back to a big area that had a ton of free food. Booze was extra but the girls could get hot dogs, popcorn, lemonade, cotton candy, etc. (which they did).
These tickets are designed to be corporate give-aways and with the crazy prices for stuff at The Garden, they solve the “these free tickets will end up costing me $200” problem. And for that target audience, it makes total sense.
Anyway, it was a fun night. The Knicks were playing Golden State so of course they lost (lots of Stephen Curry jersey in the crowd), but everyone had a good time.
May have turned my girls in Warriors fans though…
The pre-game view…
We had a very nice Christmas. Plenty of electronics, random flying things (Flutterbye and mini quadcopters) good food and family.
But our niece Journee was the main attraction:
With her cousin Alex:
Alex’s mom, Connie:
with Danielle (and her new GoPro):
Getting ready to walk:
and with Tori (in her new Giraffe PJs):
Journee’s first Christmas was a good one.
She got special cupcakes…
Regular readers know I have two nephews, Michael and Matthew, that I’m very close to. Michael, the older, got married a couple of years ago to Sandy, another athletic type (scholarship college softball at Binghamton University).
She’s been on a yoga/handstand phase this summer (great stuff on Instagram) so in Cape Cod she was looking for good photo ops.
OK, my timing is biased towards my daughter Danielle (right). This is my favorite one of Sandy:
Two years ago on vacation, a guy showed up and did a super cool sand castle at low tide.
This summer he did it again. But high tide showed up fast, so there was a huge rush to finish.
This would be Tori, Danielle and her best friend Jessie.
More vacation stuff. We always rent bikes and ride along the Cape Cod Rail Trail, which is fantastic. In the past we’d get a bike with a tag-along so Tori could ride behind me, but this year she had her own bike. Not a crazy long ride, around 9 miles, mostly flat.
With a lunch break and an ice cream break.
The crew (Danielle’s best friend Jessie was with us – next to me)
Tori on the trail:
Lunch at Cobies:
Followed by more riding and a stop on the way home at the same place:
Clearly, it’s all about the ice cream…
More random P-Town pictures with my girls.
Victoria:
And Danielle with a squid hat. Of course it is rainbow for P-Town…
More vacation stuff to come…
One day on vacation we went to Provincetown (P-Town, as it is known). It’s an artist type town for those that don’t know it. One place they had put up a big wall with a ton of spray paint and anyone could go wild.
Obviously my girls loved it.
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