So that’s it, tonight was the season finale of Project Runway. A while back I  blogged about my nemesis judge from the show “Nina Garcia” and how Heidi used to introduce her.  While watching tonights show I’ve finally come to the conclusion that Heidi’s voice is annoying and  gets on my nerves.  Not nails on a chalkboard annoying but slightly less so.

Now it’s finally over I figured I was going to get my Wednesday nights back but it looks like Season Two of Top Chef is taking over the Project Runway time slot.

It really sounds like I spend hours in front of the tv watching reality tv but honestly, I don’t, It’s only one night a week.  I swear..

Every time I make a new post Jen gives me a hard time, “Still no mention of the Corporate Olympics,” “I see you still haven’t said anything about Corporate Olympics yet.”  So here it is, TI got it handed to them by the Richardson School District.

They changed the format of the meet this year and all the events were all done as two person relays.  A 2×50 Free, Back, and Breast relay for men and women, and then a 4×50 (2 men – 2 women) free relay to wrap the meet up.  On the women’s side RISD won every one of their relays.  Jen was on the free and breast relay.  On the men’s side we managed to beat the RISD team in all the relays but the difference came down to the fact that Nortel fielded a stronger them then they have in previous years.  We ended up placing second in the free relay and breast relay and only winning the back relay.  To make matters worse we only lost the free relay by a hundredth of a second.

It came down to the combined relay at the end of meet to determine the winner.  I was the lead swimmer on the TI relay and Jen was the lead swimmer on the RISD team.  Nothing like a little healthy family competition.  RISD beat us in the relay and we finished in a close second place so they won the meet.

That makes it two years in row we’ve lost to RISD.  Just wait until next year, we’ll have our revenge!!

We are safely back from our trip to New Orleans over the (Canadian Thanksgiving) weekend.  We all had a great time and managed to cram in loads of fun stuff for the kids and even some fun stuff for us.

On the first day we leisurely got out of bed and went down to the French Quarter to have the breakfast of champions of beignets at Cafe du Monde.  From there we walked down to the Aquarium where we spent some time watching the fish were Alex was most interested in the sharks.  At the hands on exhibit I tried to convince him to pet the Nurse shark but he still doesn’t want anything to do with that.  After we were done at the Aquarium we walked up the street to the Louisiana Children’s museum where the kids had all kinds fun playing on the stuff there.  To top the day off we took a trolley car ride which was very exciting for Alex.

On Saturday we all went to the zoo since Andrew is really into animals right now.  He particularly likes any types of birds, elephants, and giraffes.

Sunday afternoon Jen and I went to the Saints game where they played the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.  It was a close game and the Saints were trailing with five minutes to go when rookie Reggie Bush returned a punt 65 yards for the go ahead touchdown.  It was a sold out game and when he crossed into the end zone the place just went crazy.

Once I have some more time I’ll get some pictures posted from the trip.

Sunset in Plano.  I took this at the balloon fest last Friday as we were leaving.  I figured I needed to get a picture of something since we didn’t see any balloons.

It was a busy weekend for us here. On Friday evening we took the boys to the annual Plano Balloon Festival. Friday was the opening day and the schedule was to have the first set of balloons launch around six o’clock, a group of sky divers would come in in next and it would all wrap up with another group of balloons that would come on the field just after dark and put on a night time balloon lighting/fire extravaganza. We arrived plenty early so we could eat dinner there before the launch but unfortunately it was way too windy for balloons.

The first group came out to the field but it was so windy they only set up their baskets on the field and didn’t even bother to get their balloons out. When it came time for the skydivers the plane flew over twice but the winds were just over 20 miles an hour so it wasn’t safe for a jump. Since all the main events were canceled we spent most of the time in the kids play area where Alex burned through a pocket full of money playing in one of the many bounce houses. We didn’t stick around for the night time balloon activities since the wind wasn’t calming down and the event was most likely not going to happen. So it turned out to be kind of a bust.

On Saturday night Alex and I went to the soccer game to see FC Dallas play Real Salt Lake.  For the last couple of years Alex has done a reading program with the library where he after reading a certain number of minutes he can turn his reading log in for prizes.  So far every year the big prize has been a free ticket to the soccer game which Alex just loves. FCD won the game 2-1 and they scored both of their goals in the first half and as a bonus we were sitting the scoring end.  During the whole game Alex was giving me a non-stop commentary of the action on the field or asking me questions.  We had loads of fun.

Last year on this very day I introduced ye all to the sadly under celebrated holiday of “Talk Like a Pirate Day” Well this year the young ones and I decided to kick it up a notch and do some real pirate like celebrating.

How did the rest of you lubbers celebrate celebrate TLAPD?