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Weekend Wrap-up

What a great weekend.  It started off Friday night with a nice DVD night at home.  We watched Nebraska, which was also playing at NCMA, but we decided to stay in for the night.  Interesting film, a little slow in parts, funny in others, and a nice examination of intra-family dynamics and brings questions of, how much do we REALLY know about our parents.

Saturday morning we were up early to meet the Cub Scouts at Durant Nature Park for what I thought would be a simple hike. Turns out the Webelos leader set up a nice nature program with the Raleigh Parks and Rec department.  The kids had a chance to learn about what kind of wildlife lives in the park, take samples from the lake and hike along the trails to continue the conversations about local wildlife.

We got back from the hike in time to watch the Arsenal match at Goodison Park against Everton.  Not a great result for me on either count.  I was hoping for a win for Arsenal, and spectacular performance from Tim Howard.  As it turns out the score at the end was 2-2.  Arsenal with one more point and Tim Howard with 2 GA.  Not a bad performance, but one goal too many to meet my requirements.

The main event of the weekend was the Chevelle show downtown.  It started out at Milton's with Jason and Lisa for an early dinner and then the drive downtown.  After waiting so long to see them, 14.5 years, the show did not disappoint.  Though I think I am getting too old to stand for four hours.  Jason got this video of The Clincher.

Sunday morning was the regular pick-up soccer game.  A beautiful morning, not too hot, low humidity and sunny.  We had a nice 8v8 game.  While walking the dog last night I was reflecting on the weekend and remarked to +Gina Beaudry  how nice it was.  One of the best "at home" weekends in quite a while.




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