Baseball plus Fourth of July plus Tour de France
A week ago, we got to go the baseball game. The Astros played the Red Sox. I’m clueless, so I didn’t realize that it was an interleague game. The Astros lost and not even a rally cap could help them:
And we didn’t even know that there would be fireworks – bonus! Of course, they have to open the roof for the fireworks. Two years ago, we saw the Astros at the Rockies and the game was delayed for rain. We don’t have that problem here in Houston; of course, we have a good bit more rain as well as heat.
Here’s the roof mostly closed:
And here it is open – pretty neat, right?
We had a nice and quiet Fourth of July. We saw the movie “Hancock” (two thumbs up, by the way), grabbed some dinner out and then sat out on the driveway to watch the neighbors blow up money fireworks.
That’s a bunch of firecrackers!
Saturday was the start of the Tour de France, so we watched stage 1 and 2 all weekend. I also made Tour de France cupcakes:
I’ll award a bonus point in the stitch-a-long to the first person who can name what each cupcake represents.
I started sketching on my TDF design.
July 7th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
I’ll play! Let’s see the cupcakes represent yum, yummy, yummier, and yummiest, right?
I’m not a cycling fan per se, but based on yesterday’s post I’ll guess the following:
yellow: leader jersey
polka dot: mountain leader jersey
green: sprinter jersey
white: Pedersen Glacier in Aialik Bay
You can keep the point–I want a cupcake!
September 24th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
I hope I am doing this right…I love your winter fading chart.