Father and son in New York

My Dads 60th B-day present from everyone was a trip to New York to see the Yankees play, and I was the lucky one to go with him.
Boarding the Cathay 747 to NY.
New York Yankees played the Toronto Blue Jays 7pm on Fri and 1pm on Sat.




Checked out Times Square and picked up game tickets from Jon (HKG softball), whose office is a few blocks away.









Times Square really is a square with the big video images on either end. Almost like a mirror image of this picture.















Started a bus tour of the city with informative narrators. Here we are by Central Park.









There were three different tours of NY, we managed two. Lower and Upper Manhattan and missed out on the Brooklyn tour.















The Bull by Wall St.












Actor from Law and Order SVU.












Empire State building.



















































































Had Kebobs for lunch. This place was just around the corner from ground zero.























New 'Freedom' tower to be built.


















In front of Yankee Stadium.
Next year will be the last year for this stadium, that was built in 1923.
Probably good riddance too! The corridors are small, no good food, hard to find seats, bad speaker system, no good scoreboard, some obstructed views, etc.
As one local said 'burn this place down!'












Beer and hot dog (12$), typical food.














A-rod and Jeter, 3rd base and short stop.
















Cheap beer across the street where there are a bunch of sports bars.

















Nice pic of the stadium at night.
Good field for the players at least.












7 hours of baseball each day!
1st game went into extra innings and finished in the 14th with a Blue Jay homer at 1am.
2nd game started with an hour and half rain delay. We arrived at 11am and had to leave at 7pm to catch our flight and the game was still going on.




In Center field is Memorial Park, a place that honours some of the Yankees greatest players.

Suds goes to Vegas

Suds and a bunch of pilot buddies on thier golf trip to Vegas.

Hilary and I go for a "hike"

Hilary and I decided to get some exercise. I picked her up and we headed to a park nearby for a "hike". Even though it was Hilary's idea, she showed up in flip flops! Needless to say she was eating my dust and complaining of sore feet before long.

Suds goes wake boarding

summer pics

Sorry for being such a slacker lately and not updating the blog. Facebook takes up a lot of time :) Here are some pics of some of the other stuff we've been doing recently




We were finally able to use our Bard on the Beach gift certificates from Hilary and Whitney. We saw Timon of Athens. No pics allowed of performers so all we have is us in the car :) We really enjoyed it but it was freezing cold!!!










Here is Suds practicing for his Vegas golf trip
















He practiced so much he gave himslef a blister!
















Darren scored some free tix to the Alice in Chains and Velvet Revolver concert. We were responsible and took the Skytrain into the city.















Can you believe this is the best picture I got??

If it wasn't for the top hat you wouldn't even know it was Slash!















Dixie threw a tiki party for Jim's 60th birthday. The weather just barely held out for us. The decorations were awesome and there was so much food!!!