The One With the First Football Game of the Year

 

 

 

 

Friday marked the first official DHS football game at home. Of course, it also marked the return on DHS Marching Band, which is always fun.

 

As we have for the past two years, Emmie and I are volunteering to help out...which has always been a fun thing to do. This year, we are helping to coordinate volunteers for the half time show, which is a salute to Alice in Wonderland. Now, it is weird to only have one student in band again, now that Bri has moved onto college...though she thinks she might do band next year there.

 

The show itself is entertaining. DHS stepped it up this year, evening getting special costumes for the Alice in Wonderland effect. And it looks pretty good (though, it appears the boys are not full fledged fans of the shirts). The first show went well, with the first two songs a resounding success. Kiff has two interesting parts in the show - a tug of war with another student while playing the trumpet with one hand and a solo before the send of movement two. 

 

Show one went down nicely...and the football team, with many of the kids Kiff played flag football with, ended up winning, too. All and all, a nice day for DHS. 

The One with Apple Picking

 

 

 

Today we continued our yearly pilgrimage to Ipswich to take part in apple picking. And, as with all years, it was a fun time. It was a bit hot so the hayride was definitely a sweat bath. But, once we arrived, we were able to find some solid apples (of course, not the type that Emmie was looking for).

 However, we got some good ones. And we got a nice apple beverage as well (it was phenomenal). 

All in all, a great apple pick day! 

The One with Coast to a Cure

 

 

The DHS band took part in their annual kickoff event, "The Coast to a Cure." It was a great scene in Gloucester as usual.

 

It was interesting to see Kiff perform. Now that he is older - and looks it - with his sunglasses on, he looked like one of the veteran leaders of the band. They performed some great stories - Shippin' Up to Boston and Sweet Caroline were two hits with the crowd.

 

It was not quite as packed as in years past, which was surprising. But, still a great day.  

The One With Caught Stealing

 

 

Kiff and I decided to end my second week back at school and his first week with a movie. While Emmie was having dinner with fellow college Moms, we went to see Caught Stealing.

From the previews, it looked like it would be a decent take. A person - Austin Butler - gets caught up in the shenanigans of his neighbor and has to find a way out. In reality, it was quite an intense movie. Spoiler alert - a lot of people die. The action is solid, and intense in some spots, but well defined (and a little gratuitous....but there are reasons for that). There are a lot of twists, and although it was predictable, it was entertaining. I did have to turn my head a couple of times - once when Butler's character ralphed all over a door (but you find out that this actually moved the plot) and another when you see a bone sticking out of his knee.

 All and all and entertaining take. There was a surreal moment when Zoe Kravitz was on screen and looked a lot like her mother - who was one of my favorite actresses of the 1980s. I would give in a B.