With ODA being AWOL in CA, I ventured up to the always pleasant 'ville of Beacon - just north of Stinky Town - and spent the weekend with some Hudson Valley pals!
One of my favorite new people up there is little Charlie Z (belonging to Beth & Jim). I took about 2,478 pictures of him, give or take. He's quite adorable. Sorta hard to take your eyes off him.
Beth's dad, Gary, pulled into town on his way to CT and showed off his big rig (he left the trailer at a nearby rest stop).
Toby & Frank's daughter, the amazing Sophia, performed some sparring whoop-ass for us before taking home her super cool Black Belt (three years in the making)!
Later, we celebrated her victory at Soul Dog...
But first, more pics of Charlie!
Jim seized the rare opportunity to see a trashy movie with me, and we went to a late show that night. What happened next cannot be mentioned... It's not that we're embarrassed to reveal what flick we saw - I mean, I've seen some real suckers and still live to rejoice in discussing their merits and flaws - but I do not possess the energy nor the necessary catalog of words for a review of this monstrosity of a film. Not fun. Let's just flash-forward to the next morning...The next morning, we took Charlie to his very first car show! Fun!
The little man thoroughly enjoyed himself. Here are a few of his favorites...
Charlie's Pa checking out the '34 Ford coupe.
Mom inspects the '38 DeSoto next door.
But after nearly three hours, even Jimmy Z - Charlie's gear head Dad - had burned out.
In the end, the little man had settled on a sweet SS Nova for his 16th birthday, much to Mom's shagrin (apparently, she was holding out for a T-Bird).
What a swell weekend (despite the Dragons)!
3 comments:
DON! These pictures are a-MAZ-ing! (I speak even of the ones that are not of charlie!).
Had a great weekend, although we missed tina, like we will soon miss you both.
Wow! A first message from 'dollop!'- YEAH! Maybe someday Ms. Maguire will add her thoughts before Dan Bummer is no more...
Sorry I missed out on seeing the hotrods and the lovely little family. Looks like it was a lot of fun.
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