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On May 1st, Cat and I along with Mom, Tim, Uncle Brian, Aunt Kitty, Uncle Terry, and Aunt Marie went to Tyler’s first cello concert. The Weeks’ fam couldn’t make it since Lindsay was at work 
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It was a great concert though! Tyler played great along with the rest of the 3rd grade orchestra. They were up first, must have been scary!, and played three songs. The 4th grade orchestra, 5th grade orchestra, and the elementary’s school chorus were also in the concert at the Ephrata Middle School.
Cat and I have become reliable Jeopardy! junkies all but using mock buzzers and hoping for contestants to which we have connections to as we root for our favorite player.
There are two developments here: first, that we have desperately been trying to win a trip to the Galapagos with Alex Trebec. I don’t know when the winner is announced but hopefully Alex heard our impassioned please to go over through the television screen.
Second, a coworker of mine was on the show, Justin Klos. Usually, I am just happy to root for a fellow Pennsylvanian but someone who used to work just down the hall and now down the hall and five floors up is a different matter altogether.
Justin had temporarily supplanted Cat and I’s multi-night favorite, Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer who was born in Scranton and spent her formative years in Dunmore borough. Amazingly, you can get a glimpse of someone’s personality between their short biographical tidbits after commercial breaks and how they say “who is _______” throughout the game. Cat and I thought she was clearly witty and fun if not a little eccentric like us!
Fortunately, her self-admitted gaffe offering her support for the NY Yankees when Alex had asked whether she, like Justin Klos, was a Pittsburgh Steeler’s fan made the decision to support Justin a little easier for that one night. Ultimately, Justin lost to Liz by a dollar.
We stopped up at my mom’s house in Ephrata to stuff ourselves with pizza and play Trivial Pursuit.
Team Braintrust, Cat and I, came in a distant third but our recent purchase of Trivial Pursuit should put us in contention the next go around.
It was really cool to see my sister, brothers, and nieces too! Tyler made a solar system for school. He and Joey are both doing well. Tyler is continuing with his cello and Joey recently had his first soccer game.
But the weather was perhaps the most noteworthy part of this trip. We survived some serious hail on the way and when we got there we saw fire trucks and other emergency responders.
Cat was explaining to me all the telltale signs of tornadoes that we saw along the way: wall cloud, green, etc.
Once we got there, she knew that there had been a tornado. Of course, the next day the newspaper had said there was a serious storm and the following day confirmed there was a tornado. We took a bunch of pictures but this one that Cat took I think is the coolest:
Arrrgh, Tyler and Josiah celebrated their sixth and ninth birthdays’ respectively together yesterday. It was pirate themed and they were dressed in full garb.
We ate tons of pizza, cake, and ice cream and kids ran around for hours.
It was fun to share in their birthday’s and get a chance to talk to our family and friends.
