Harp Concert-The Legend of the Christmas Rose

A GREAT way to get into the Christmas Spirit!

Martha Gallagher, The Adirondack Harper, is coming to town!

The Legend of the Christmas Rose is a wonderful Christmas concert that weaves together original song and story inspired by The Legend of the Christmas Rose, written by Sweden’s Selma Lagerlof, 1909 Nobel recipient for Literature.

Besides being my friend Rob's sister, Martha is an incredible Harper!
Check out her website
http://www.adkharper.com/

Lutheran Church of the Foothills
5102 N. Craycroft Road
Tucson, AZ 85750

Saturday November 29, 2008
2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
FREE!!!

Congrats to Adele and Noah!

Adele and Noah both competed in 67 mile race of El Tour de Tucson this past Saturday and FINISHED!!!
Noah ROCKED the house and finished 9th! only 12 minutes behind first.
Adele fresh off her trip to Finland and Russia,
shook off her jetlag and finished 748.
She was within 5 minutes of her last year's finish. AMAZING!!!
Congrats to both!
I am proud of you!
Noah 3:02:16
Adele 5:01:28

El Tour de Tucson

On Saturday, November 22 over 8500 people of all ages

will compete in

El Tour de Tucson.

The El Tour de Tucson is a terrific bike race around Tucson.

Literally, on the streets of Tucson.

There are 5 major starting points: 109 mile, 80, 67, 35

and a fun ride for the little ones.

It is an all day affair!

So, please keep your eyes open,

slow down

and plan to add some extra travel time

to your errands on Saturday.

My friend Adele rocked the 66 mile last year while her son was in Africa.

This year, they both will compete.

I am very proud of them.

GO ADELE AND NOAH! YOU CAN DO IT!!!

Bridal Tip #1

Sometimes, lacing and bustling the dress is harder than it looks.

So, take the lacing/bustling person, Maid of Honor for example, with you to the final fitting.

That way the MOH gets to do a run through before the Big Day and ask any questions about lacing and bustling. You might want to take some photos with your cell phones for extra help.

On the Big Day, it is easy to forget the directions and the photos really help.

In this case, Nancy's Matron of Honor did most of the lacing with Nancy's mom coming in to tie the bow.

It was a win-win!

Sam and Ray are too cute!

I was lucky enough to take photos of Sam and Ray the other day.

The boys were back in town and ready for their closeups.

Maggie and Garret are raising two of the cutest, smartest boys ever.

In this photo, the boys are catching up on their sports scores before they hit the sack.

FINALLY, I am in The Guinness World Book of Records!

Ever since I watched The Brady Bunch growing up, I had to be like Bobby and Cindy and try to get into The Guinness World Book of Records. My friend Beth and I would read our copies of The Guinness World Book of Records and try and figure out which record could we break. Which ones could we do over summer vacation and how hard it would be?

And more importantly, could we get our parents behind this project? Would they bring us food and water and let us stay up past our bedtime during our attempt? There was a lot of planning on this project. But alas, I never did break a record!

UNTIL NOW!!!!!!!!!

The last day of The Math, Science, Technology FunFest, we attempted to break the old record of simultaneous launch of rubberband-powered paper airplanes.

2,300 kids of all ages went out to The Tucson Community Center parking lot with our individually numbered airplanes and waited for the countdown.

Would we have enough to break the old record? And what was the old record?
Some airplanes went into orbit a little early but at least 1,800 were launched at the same time.

WE DID IT!!!

Finally, I am going to be in The Guinness World Book of Records!

YEAH!!! I can't believe it!

I AM IN!

The next day, I got up early and bought a newspaper.

Clearly, this important event would be covered by the media.

And there it was on the front page of the Arizona Daily Star, a big photo and article about us breaking the record!

Check it out.

http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/266292.php

I quickly read the article and found out that the old record was 88 planes.

WHAT?!?!?!

88????

ONLY 88????

AAARRRRRGGGHHHHH!

I could have organized my elementary school and beat that record YEARS ago!!

Why didn't we see this record in our books? WHY???

Well, my depression quickly lifted when I realized that while I didn't break any records when I was a child, I broke one on November 7, 2008 at 11:30am.

And that made me smile!

When does the 2009 edition come out?

Math, Science, Technology FunFest

Last week, I had to great pleasure of exhibiting at the Math, Science, Technology FunFest.

The FunFest is this terrific Tucson event where schoolchildren (mostly grades 4-8) come to the Tucson Community Center to see math, science, technology in action and hopefully get them to take more math and science in school.

The Arizona International Film Festival goes each year to teach kids math through the use of film and get them interested in attending college.

It is 3 days of fun!

We got a GREAT booth this year. Our booth was twice as big as last year and between the Phun Physics Guys (a crowd favorite) and Make Your Own Silly Putty (another favorite). I could not ask for a better location! And to top it off, we were next to the soda bottle rocket guys, which was great if you never looked up. (The rockets would land in my booth from time to time and as your mom says "could poke your eye out!")

We teach them that there are 24 frames of film per second of film viewing.

Then we do different math problems with them like, if The Chronicles of Narnia is 2 hours and 12 minutes long, how many frames is that?

ANSWER below-don't cheat, see if you can answer it first.

The kids make every day of the FunFest "Super Fun!"

They ask terrific questions, are super polite and are just great to be around.

And I have to admit it that I love when kids come to my booth because they heard it was one of the "good" booths.

I can't wait for next year!

Answer- 190,080 frames

Happy Veteran's Day and Thanks!

Okay, so this post is a little late.

Thank goodness that the men and women protecting our country are never late

or we would be in trouble.

America would not be where it is today without the brave men and women

protecting us here and abroad.

So, even though it is past Veteran's Day, it not too late to thank a Veteran.

THANK YOU!!!