A Bobblehead Adoption Story

Celebrities come up with so many good ideas, it's hard to decide which ones to copy. I don't have anyone that I feel comfortable leaving threatening voice mail messages to (Alec Baldwin), and Jenny wouldn't look good with a shaved head (Britney). So we decided to take the Angelina Jolie/Brad Pitt route and adopt some less fortunate children. We've managed to basically warp a perfectly normal cat in the few years that we've owned her, so the logical solution to that problem was easy: bobbleheads!

Say hello to the newest additions to our family: Fat Albert, Tek-money, and J-Pap. (aka Albert Pujols, Jason Veritek, and Jonathan Papelbon)

It was a tough choice, there were a lot of needy guys out there, but these 3 were the most pathetic looking. Here are some shots of their first moments in our house.

Here's the guys when they first came home:

And here's feeding time:

A hierarchy is established:

Neighborhood watch:

Tek-money learns how things work around here real fast:

There will be a lot more pictures to come, none will be as good as Dr. Johnny, but hopefully they will be good ones.

A little more on the Frozen Four

Dad did an excellent job of describing the goings-on at the Frozen Four. I would have attempted a summary, but I didn't feel that my descriptive powers would do the event justice. One thing thing that Dad touched on that I wanted to talk about a little more was the sense of community that surrounded the whole week.

Dad talked about the two guys at the Morgan Street Brewery, but my first experience came on the plane from Minneapolis to St. Louis. The plane was about 3/4 full of hockey fans headed to the games and the guy that I sat next to had been going since 1976. He was a Minnesota fan and we lamented the fact that our teams weren't making the trip this year.

After that it seemed like everywhere we went we ran into hockey fans from every possible location. Some teams (the Frozen Four) were more represented than others, but we saw a lot of different college and pro jerseys. Everyone who saw Dad and Bubba's UNH jerseys wanted to know what happened to them and who we would be cheering for.

What really amazed me was the fact that no matter what teams logo you were wearing, another hockey fan would not hesitate to talk to you. I've only been to a few NCAA basketball tournament games, but this is the first time I've felt that sense of community regardless of team affiliation. It's not uncommon to talk to other fans from the same school during the basketball tournament, but you rarely see SU fans talking to Georgetown fans in the elevator of the team hotel.

So now we come to the worst part of the year: 12 months to the next Frozen Four. I'll be looking forward to next year when everyone will be there.

More pics!

For those of you that didn't receive the email that I sent, here's link to the photo album for the rest of the FF pics:

http://picasaweb.google.com/zackandjenny/FrozenFour

Everybody assumes I'm a catcher, you know, cause I like the chest protector.

All of you are going to hear a lot about the Frozen Four from other people that were there, all of them better story tellers than myself. It will sound better coming from Cody (the scholar), Dad (a man who has traveled the world), or Bubba (the postmaster general), so I'll just say that I had an amazing time. The only down side to the whole weekend was the fact that Cody wasn't able to enjoy Thursdays games with us.

St. Louis is really an amazing city, very unassuming but with a lot of pleasant surprises. I wouldn't go back just to visit the city, but when the Frozen Four goes back there I'll be excited to return.

Here's some of my pics:

Here's but one pic of the arch.

Here's the four of us at Square One Brewery.

Top of the arch!

Us before the championship game.

There's more where those came from, but that's about enough for now. Jenny is going to scrapbook the whole trip for me, so anybody that wants to see that when it's done is more than welcome to.

Gmail.

Hey everyone, I realize that we are very behind in the times, but I've finally signed us up for gmail. Our address is zackandjenny@gmail.com

I'll post some good pics of our trip later this week and have them available on gmail to send to everyone. Have a good week!