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7
Jul 10

Blogging From Africa? Not So Much

Due to unforeseen issues with a newly refurbished Sprint Blackberry, we were unable to “moblog” like we did from our China trip.  We thought we also had a suitable backup in place with a FIFA-endorsed SIM card, but that turned out to be a struggle as well.  We quickly decided to just buy a cheap South African cell phone with prepaid minutes our first morning there.  This worked well for connecting with others in South Africa, but not so well for emailing posts to the blog.

Now, we think it might be fun to do the posts in a retrospective fashion.  This way, we can actually post the photos at the same time as we post our activities.  We’ll try to do it regularly, but we’ll see how real life interplays with this plan.

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17
Jun 10

And we’re off!

We’re sitting in the Harpoon Brewery Taproom at Logan airport, just waiting until time to board. We are super excited! White UFOs for Team USA and the Celtics!

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16
Jun 10

Blogging from Africa

We will be emailing posts from Josh’s blackberry like we did from China. If this intrigues you, please check back often. Pictures will be added to the posts when we return.

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29
May 10

Red Sox v Royals

A long time ago we bought Red Sox tickets. We felt lucky to have gotten in to the infamous “online waiting room” and to have been able to purchase tickets at face value. Little did we know that this game would fall during a week that was slightly crazed for us, what with the Celtics doing so well in the Playoffs and our Greg Laswell‘s tour coming through town the same week. I don’t know if it’s lucky or not that nothing fell on the same night. It might have been better had we been forced to make a decision and pare down the event list for the week.

Needless to say, we walked over to Fenway Saturday night and enjoyed a low key baseball game on a windy, but nice and temperate, evening.  Red Sox won (1-0).  Our tickets were SRO – we were worried that might be a bit a much after standing all night at the Celtics game the night before, but it worked out just fine.  We really don’t mind SRO at Fenway.  It’s enjoyable.

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28
May 10

Eastern Conference Finals CHAMPIONS, Game 6: Celtics v Magic

We didn’t originally plan to attend this game, but after watching the stinker of Game 4 at the Garden and the atrociousness of Game 5 from our couch – we wanted to be back at the Garden for Game 6 and be as loud as we could (who knows if it really helps), to feel like we did our part to help the Celtics.  But we did NOT want to see the C’s lose the series after going up 3-0.   Thankfully, we saw an awesome W (96-84).

Since these weren’t a part of our playoff package tickets we were in different seats.  They were up against the wall – and surprisingly awesome!  Our two seats were right at the end of the stair – no chairs in front of us – so we didn’t have people walking in front of us to get in or out of a row.  In addition, we were able to stand for the entire game (which was preferable for an exciting playoff game like this) and didn’t have to worry about blocking the view of people behind us.  It was awesome.

We only brought the phone camera this game – so the photos aren’t so great, but here is the view down our stairs:

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The media crush as the Celtics win and the Eastern Conference Championship trophy is awarded (you can still see Gino in the first photo):

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Jeannette’s new shirt for Ray Allen:

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We were VERY EXCITED:

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We went out and celebrated.  The evening ended in a park eating McD’s with a statue.

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