2022 Baseball Champs!

The league championship game was today. Griffen and AJ's team, The Blue Bombers, were victorious! 1st Place for the season!

That's Tracy's wagon in the background for moving the
whole family into the viewing spots with all manner of
chairs, umbrellas, baby paraphernalia, snacks, drinks, etc.

Happenings

Various happenings over the last few days...

Heavy rain and hail at the pool. Must be lunch time!

Movie Night: Top Gun

Palmer Lake

Hot tub at the Club

Yup, they are twins.

Family Dinner Friday Night

This was our third Friday Night Family Dinner (which we also call Shabbat dinner). We try to keep it simple, but tonight's meal took most of the day to prepare. Fina was the over-achiever making Challah bread. She got some help from a couple brothers to roll out the dough. Nana made sweet potato fries and strawberry shortcake berries. Vickie handled the shortcake. Matt did the smash burgers. And Jamie picked out the wine (Hunt Cellars and Daou). It was quite a production. Tonight's discussions started with the word "holy" (which means "set apart for a special purpose" in ancient Hebrew).

Palmer Lake Reservoir Trail

Vickie and Jamie took off Friday morning in very gloomy weather to hike Palmer Lake Reservoir Trail. At the trailhead, however, it was sunny and perfectly cool! We did the full 4.1-mile roundtrip and the whole outing door-to-door from the house was about 3.5 hours. It was still gloomy weather at the house when we got back. Have a credit card with you to pay for parking at the trailhead.

Games

We got some games in with Aunt Vickie. Ticket to Ride: Rails and Sails, and Blokus!

Ambli Global Cuisine

The big outing for the day, at least for the seniors, was dinner at Ambli Global Cuisine. This is one unique gourmet experience. We did the Mediterranean Tasting Menu on this particular night, which was our 3rd of 4 different ways one can "do" this restaurant: at the bar (no ressie, small a la carte menu), at a table a la carte menu, the tasting menu at a table (multi-course prix fixe with a theme), and chef's table (which we haven't done yet). Unbelievably fun, educational, and fabulous flavors. Everything has numerous ingredients all of which you can taste and are perfectly balanced. And the service is impeccable. We wiped every plate clean!

Braised Watermelon Salad

Creme fresh, tomato, apple, etc.

Akin to shrimp scampi

Filet Kabob, roasted red pepper hummus.
And whipped garlic - fabulous. Food process mature garlic,
with lemon juice, add olive oil till the right consistency.
And that's a Daou cab, one of our faves.

Pistachio ice cream with all manner of embellishing.

Lexi's color-your-own clubhouse.