Rockets, Citrus Trees, Light Rail, and Hockey

You know, a good Saturday isn't complete without all of these. So today must have been a Good Saturday! We had a lovely brunch this morning with crepes and fruit and sausage and even fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice!

Then Lynn entertained the kids by showing them how to make rockets.

The recipe is: an empty film canister, half an Alkaseltzer, and a few drops of water...and POP! the top part of the canister goes flying sky high!
The whole neighborhood was entertained for a good half an hour!
Christmas brought us an Orange Tree which Adam planted today with the help of Ward (aka "Fake Shaq" for you Twitter and Suns fans), and a goofy 6-year old who can't get his picture taken with a straight face.

Maybe at our next brunch we'll juice those two oranges and serve them. yum.

Then, tonight, we scored some box seats to the Roadrunners Game. What? Did you say, "Roadrunners Who?" Well, as about ten people in Phoenix Everybody in Phoenix knows, they are our second tier professional Hockey team. Second only to the Coyotes. What? Did you say, "Coyotes Who?" Well, now that's enough. Little boys all over the Phoenix Valley dream about becoming Phoenix Suns Basketball Roadrunner Hockey players because everybody has a frozen pond in their wooded backyard all winter, and really, what else are they going to do outside? Oh, wait, I was mixing that up with Connecticut. Well, anyway, shocking as it may seem, Arizona does have a second-tier Hockey team, and almost as shocking was that the box seats were available. But, you know what? We all had a total blast!

Do you know how we got downtown to the game? I'll tell you...by the Metro Light Rail that just opened up a few weeks ago! It was so fun for the kids (Eli's friend Max came with us too!). And you could tell most of the adults were just as excited, pretending to fall when the train came to a stop, speculating out loud about how many viruses were in the air at any given moment. And it was Clean! So Clean! Riding the Metro was almost as fun as the hockey game!
We're just so Urban. Ivy's so urban, she can't even smile.




Here's hoping that your Saturday was filled with as much citrus, alka-seltzer, Metro stops and hockey pucks as ours was!