Brooklyn Cyclones Weekend – Part two

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A quick bike ride with Nana and Grampa before they head back to NH.

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Picnic lunch in Prospect Park.

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A little playground time.

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Friends waiting for the train with us.

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Friends at the Brooklyn Cyclones game with us.

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Walk-off win!

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The clique.

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Wait for it….

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Run the bases!!

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Good weekend.

Brooklyn Cyclones Weekend – Part one

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Saturday swim!

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Not psyched on the shirt Kate brought him to change into.

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Later, meeting up with our ticket dealer in Coney Island before a Brooklyn Cyclones game.

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The Cyclones have a new mascot this year, Bucky the Buccaneer, who runs from dugout to dugout when the Cyclones score. When he walked through the stands between innings he saw Jen, his high school english teacher.

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Ryan, our ticket dealer, with his own run celebration.

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King Henry signing Noah’s hat.

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Ryan’s blurry name in lights. 10 years of getting people together for a summer Cyclones game. This year he bought 70 tickets for people.

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Then this.

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Wet Nana and Grampa Holt.

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Lou.

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It slowly cleared up.

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Ren ready to go.

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Then, while I was getting food the rain started up again and they called the game.

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Meeting Leni

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Over the 4th of July weekend, with the city still smoldering in the summer heat, we stopped by Jerry and Amanda’s to meet Leni.

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Big sister Mae.

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This guy.

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Photo by Jerry.

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After brunch we rode our bikes (did I tell you about the unbearable heat?) to Prospect Park.

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Prospect Park Lake by the Audubon Center with a thick layer of algae (I blame the heat).

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Throwing things.

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Swimmers.

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Musuem of Natural History with friends

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The day after the Cyclones game with the Charests, we took them to the Museum of Natural History because it’s cool.

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For the record I was telling Noah that he couldn’t do this as I took the photo.

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These two made out beneath this giant crab for a while. Strange.

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Mark and Tyler in the disco elevator.

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My doppelgänger.

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Later we made cookies with the cookie cutters Aunt Mindy sent to Noah as a graduation present.

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This was supposed to be a horse I think…

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Coney Island with The Charests

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The other weekend The Charests came down to spend the weekend with us.

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We went out to Coney Island to ride some rides and watch a Cyclones game.

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Tyler driving Noah and Ben around in a flying boat.

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Train ride.

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Sandy the Seagull with fans.

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Hot dog race. Everyone picks their favorite condiment.

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Relish? Who picks relish besides Kate…

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This guy.

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T-shirt toss.

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After the game we tried to leave before the fireworks started, because Noah still isn’t a fan, but we didn’t quite make it.

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