It was a beautiful day yesterday when I went to Fountainhead Regional Park on the Occoquan River to see grandson Nick’s crew team compete in the Virginia State Rowing Championships. I’ve never seen a regatta before, and watching these beautiful boats shoot down the river is both idyllic, and exciting at the same time. The James River (High School) Rapids were in two races. In the morning’s event, they came in second place which earned them an afternoon race. In both races, the team would be a bit behind and then a hundred yards or so before the finish line, they would pull the oars even harder and shoot past the nearest boat foot by foot until they were ahead. It was very exciting. I was exhausted just watching them! Click the first picture to enlarge, then run though them.

Last Thursday 6/13/2019 grandson Julian and his team the Mountville (PA) White Sox began their championship tournament. I was there for the first 3 games. Ultimately, they played 6 games and came in 2nd place. Go Sox! Here are a few pics of the first 3 games. Click on the first one to embiggen, then click to the right to run through them.

Grandson Nick was recently selected to play on an elite travel soccer team, so Brenda and I went down to Richmond to watch Nick play one of his last YMCA soccer games before he he moves up to the big leagues.  Today, his team dominated.  After the game, we went over to nearby a restaurant called “Fest,” a German Beer Garden with many wonderful draft German beers, sausages, pretzels and other great German fare; perfect for 9 year olds and their parents.  Dane took command of the community chalk board at the restaurant and a splendid time was had by all.

It’s like a basket of puppies.  Here’s Julian playing a little T-ball.

With one practice under their belts, Team Green had their first game the very next day. And even thought the temperature was over 100 degrees, they won easily, scoring many more goals that Team Blue.  The first score of the game came about 25 seconds after the game started.  Julian took the ball, and just went up the field and scored.  After the game, the team celebrated with the traditional water and orange slices.

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