Watch Aidan Dance it up

Taken at the Walk to Cure Diabetes in Fall 2008.






October in Connecticut is a very beautiful thing. The foliage is great and the temps are cool. Today we decided to hike up Sleeping Giant State Park in Hamden, CT. Aidan loved climbing the mountain and was especially excited to see the castle at the top. Check out the pictures from the hike.

Trip to New York City

Check out the latest pictures from our trip to NYC.

Yankees Eliminated from playoff contention!!

Tragedy struck Major League Baseball as the New York Yankees bandwagon crashed late Tuesday night in Toronto, Canada, injuring 1,347 fair-weather Yankee fans.

Witnesses say the Yankees bandwagon began teetering uncontrollably as thousands of fans jumped off following the Yankees' 3-1 win in Toronto. With the Red Sox winning, it officially eliminated the Yankees from the playoffs.

"It was madness," said witness Jo Ann Emery. "As soon as it was known that Boston won, those people started streaming off the Yankee bandwagon like rats jumping off a sinking ship."
Luckily, the bandwagoners escaped with only minor injuries, landing on gigantic piles of discarded Yankee jerseys, hats, t-shirts, and other souvenirs.

Yankee bandwagoner Steve Frederton was one of the many injured in the crash. "I don't even know why I was on the bandwagon," said Frederton while applying an ice pack to his bruised ego. "I never really liked the Yankees, especially not now. What a bunch of losers." Frederton then went to a nearby store to purchase a Mets jersey.

Many loyal Yankee followers blamed the crash on upstart fans with no real ties to the team. "I'm an old-school Yankee fan -- I've been following the team since way back in '96," said Nick DiLucci while bandaging his scraped pride. "These new fans, they've got no sense of tradition. At the first sign of failure, they're out the door. With so many of them around, there was bound to be trouble."

MLB officials agreed that the disaster was inevitable. "That bandwagon was packed way too full to begin with," said MLB commissioner/mole-licker Bud Selig. "I've cautioned fans many times about overloading, but they just don't listen. I guess I'll have to eliminate two MLB franchises in order to teach them a lesson."

"I just hope Mr. Steinbrenner doesn't blame me for this," added Selig. "He hits me when he gets angry, you know."

George Steinbrenner was busy firing his players, coaches, staff, hot dog vendors, and wife and was unavailable for comment.

New Hampshire 9/5/08

Hello All,

We are back from another trip to the White Mountains in New Hampshire. The weather held together pretty nicely for us. 90% of the rain fell at night so the days were mainly dry. We saw waterfalls, rivers, lakes, mountains, etc. We made our usually trip to Clark's Trading Post for the fun train ride and Wolfman adventure as well. I even had the chance to go wall climbing at Loon Mountain which was really fun and challenging. I'd never done that before and was happy to have conquered the wall.

Please feel free to check out my photos from the trip by clicking here

All the best,

Scott

Monica and Scott Meet The Ghost Hunters

Monica and I are fans of the TV show "Ghost Hunters" that airs on the Sci Fi channel. To help promote their new book, Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson had a book signing event at Barnes and Noble in Warwick RI on August 16, 2008. We got there about 90 minutes early and there was already a line around the building with hundreds of eager fans waiting for their opportunity to meet the ghost hunters. We met some really nice people and were thrilled to have met Jay and Grant. After the book signing, we had a nice dinner and visited the TAPS headquarters which is also located in Warwick, RI. Overall we had a great time. Here are some pictures from the event.

WEEN 7/25/08 McCarren Pool Brooklyn NY

What a show! The weather was perfect and the atmostphere was electric. Ween was getting ready for the last show of their grueling tour which spanned several countries and over a year of performances. The venue was the McCarren Pool in Brooklyn, NY.

The McCarren Pool used to be a pool but is now just concrete with a stage at the front of it. It will however be a pool again when the construction on it is completed at the end of 2008. This will be the last summer of concerts here sadly.


Now on to the show. There was a pretty good sized crowd here. Not sure if it sold out or not but it was packed. Here's the setlist.

Setlist (McCarren Pool Brooklyn, NY - July 25, 2008)
Exactly where I'm at
take me away
transdermal
nan
even if u dont
learnin 2 love
voodo lady
bear hands
mutilated
marble tulip juicy tree
buckingham
spinal
party
stallion V
tooter
gabrielle
johnny on spot
frank
mollusk
booze
argus
ocean man
wavin dick
smoker
fat lenny
zoloft
someday
shamemaker
fiesta

ENCORE:
aids
u fukd up
bannanas blow
dr rock

Aidan Turns 3

Although Aidan doesn't officially turn three until July 31, his party was celebrated on July 19th. Aidan had a blast swimming in the pool and bouncing in his new castle moonbouncer. The weather was hot and humid like a typical July day in Connecticut. A special thanks to Cindy and Rich for letting us have the party at their house.

Cimini's Return home from New Hampshire

Another New Hampshire vacation has come and gone. What a time we had! On Friday we went to Cannon Mountain and took a ride to the top of the mountain. Saturday we spent most of the day at Santa's Village. On Sunday we went to Clark's Trading Post and saw the trained bears, rode the train, and took cover from the wolfman.

Out of Hiding

Check out this 90 second clip of Out of Hiding performing on 5/25/08. For more information please visit outofhidingmusic.com