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The folks at Disney have made a 3 minute video of this January’s marathon. Of course, it took me a lot longer than 3 minutes to run it — but the video certainly motivates me for 2010.

I guess this is better late than never.  I’ve been swamped with projects at home and work.

Last Thursday, Tristan graduated from 4K and both of the kids had a program called “It’s a Small World”.  I guess all of those Disney trips paid off because my kids learned that song really fast!  Below are photos and video from the event.  Enjoy!

Tristan:

Mackenzie:

Since my blog has basically turned into a photo gallery lately, I thought I would come up with something to write about today.  I haven’t wrote much of anything lately, because I’m still struggling with the “Should my blog go public?” question.  I don’t want to express my opinions too much and then have a potential employer read them.

So lately my time has been taken up by all of these season finales on TV.  Tonight is American Idol, which I could care less about.  I’ll go run or something.  But since my four favorite shows are over, I will make a few comments about them:

LOST:  That atomic bomb better not have blown them back onto the original flight.  That is really going to tick me off.  Besides, a lot of questions still haven’t been answered . . . like why Juliet time-travels when the other others don’t?

PRISON BREAK:  Not only was this the season finale, but also the series finale.  I can see why.  The first season was smoking hot but it pretty much went downhill from there.  But did they really have to kill off Michael in the end?

DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES:  Another show that has started out great but has gotten more boring over the seasons.  The finale closed out a lot of storylines, but the ones that they introduced weren’t too great.  The new chick that moved in with Carlos and Gabby is the only thing that offers any potential.

24:  We all know Jack will live.  And the president is going to leave her sickly looking first-man and hook up with Ethan.  And the next season will continue to get the terrorists that were missed this time around.  I’m just glad that my hacker hero Chloe is back and has managed to survive … even if she doesn’t quite get the I.T. lingo right.

This morning, I went bowling with Tristan’s 4K class.  Actually, I didn’t bowl.  I just taught him how to hold the ball and took lots of pictures, which you can see below.

I’ve never been on a field trip, as a parent.  It was interested to say the least.  Field trips were some of the highlights of my educational experience, and its hard to imagine that my little boy is already at that stage.

Last week, we went to Elliott Farms in Lizella to pick fresh strawberries.  The taste of a strawberry seconds after it is picked is amazing.  It could be the freshness or the pesticides — I don’t really know.  We try to take the kids out to the strawberry fields several times a year during strawberry season.

This past weekend was a rare weekend.  We had absolutely no plans, obligations, or committments.  That makes for a great excuse to skip town.  We drove up through North Carolina into Tennessee through the Smoky Mountains on Saturday morning, and returned on Sunday, stopping at a few shopping destinations in Atlanta.

Below are some pictures:

No time for a post this morning, so I’ll leave you with a link . . .

Macon Discovery Challenge winners

Last year, we decided to do the Discover Macon photo challenge.  Basically you go around to certain Macon landmarks and take a photo of your group.  Last year there were 16 photos.  We somehow (with my mother on hospice and all) managed to be the first team to turn them in and we won the fastest team award, which was $50.00 and tickets to Lake Tobosofkee.  Conveniently, a tornado swooped down a few weeks later and blew the lake away before we could use the tickets.

Here are our photos from last year.  After the event, they used our pictures to promote Macon in magazines, newspapers and television commercials.  We have been like the poster children for Macon.

This year, I heard that they were doing the challenge again and that it was only 12 photos.  We were out of town for the first weekend and then had a rainy week after that so I was pretty sure that we weren’t going to be the fastest team this year.  Anyhow, it is a neat little scavenger hunt and we’ve discovered places in Macon that we haven’t been.

Here are this year’s photos.  I got a call yesterday personally inviting us to the awards ceremony coming up this Sunday evening.  They even asked how I wanted my check made out.  We either won the $1000 grand prize or the more likely $250 fastest team prize (we have to defend our title).  Come out to the ceremony and see how we did or stay tuned to this blog.  The ceremony is 6:30 on the Wesleyan College front lawn, followed by a FREE (my favorite 4-letter word) concert by the Macon Symphony Orchestra.