Take Me Out to the Ball Game

 

I took my family out to see the Royals beat the Toronto Blue Jays tonight.  It was an awesome night.  The weather was perfect, the game was exciting, and we ran into several good friends.  It was just a wonderful night out with my family.

 

The Royals Stadium (Kauffman Stadium) is still a beautiful stadium.  We love the fountains and the whole layout.  Game highlights included:

-Watching the Royals’ only All-Star player, Mark Redman, pitch for 8+ innings
-Watching Mark Teahen hit a home run
-Seeing the fireworks after the home run
-Cotton Candy
-Ice Cream
-My wife almost catching a foul ball

The only negative was that a big ugly dude shoved my wife and grabbed the foul ball out from between her legs, upsetting her and one of my daughters.  I missed the whole thing, as I was out taking these pics with my other daughter…

Castle Returned to Royals

No not those Royals, but these Royals.

The Castle Bran which was built in the 14th century was returned to the Romanian Royal family on May 26th, 2006.  It had been confiscated by the communists in 1948 from the Princess Ileana.

The castle is often associated with Dracula, but historians contradict each other on whether Vlad Dracula (a.k.a. Vlad Ţepeş or "Vlad the Impaler") ever lived here. 

The castle is just about a 20 minute drive from Brasov, and I’ve been there many times.  Here are some pictures that I took of Bran Castle in the year 2000.

My Favorite Immigrants

My little legal immigrants enjoying their first coconut together.

More Grace Worship Pics

Here are some more pics from the first service of Grace Church in our new building.

I’ll see about getting a better camera for big room shots…

View from the Booth

Inspired by Ben’s "View from the Stage" posts, here is my first "View from the Booth".  This is not the way we anticipate the view looking when it is completely setup, but this is how it looked at midnight on April 2, 2006…