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Okay...remember our little veggie garden we planted at the begining of last month, well get a load of it now!
When we got back from our trip I had to add all sorts of sticks, poles, and props to keep everything climbing. Did some serious pruning of the tomatos too.
Everything is growing like crazy and we're already using some of the basil, cilantro and things like that. At this rate it won't be long until we need to harvest the tomatos, cukes, and green beans!
I ran out to get some lunch today and came across what could possibly rank right up there as the worst job ever. Matter of fact, I half expected Mike Rowe and a film crew to come around the corner and get some footage for Dirty Jobs.
This crew of 5 or 6 guys was at a nearby Wawa convenience store sealing and re-striping the parking lot. On a 95 degree day!
No thank you!
Over the weekend while we were out and about we came across several interesting things. The first was the 2011 Intercollegiate Rowing Regatta that was happening on the Cooper River, just down the street from us. Hundreds of college rowers from across the country in town to compete. The video below shows teams from Navy, Yale, Penn, BU and many others from near and far.
I also shot this footage at the start of one of the races...
The second thing we stumbled upon was truly not something you see every day. Remember the plane that crashed into the Hudson River back in the Winter of 2009. You know, Captain Sully Sullenberger was at the helm and not one person was killed. The "Miracle on the Hudson" they called it. If you were like me you probably didn't think twice about what happened to the plane after they pulled it from those frigid waters. I just assumed it was scrapped or something like that. Well I was wrong. Turns out its been in a hanger for the past 2 years and is now being moved to the Carolinas Aviation Museum down in NC.
Apparently they can't take it down the highways since it's 16' tall and most of the underpasses only have clearance for 14'. A route had to be planned that avoided any low bridges or things like that which could gum up the works. It just so happens that the route went right through a town just next to ours this past Sunday afternoon. We were out and noticed all the commotion ahead of us on the road. Tons of police cars and people standing around. We didn't know what to make of it at first, so we stopped and got out to have a look. Sure enough...there was a plane in the middle of the road. They had stopped to take down a low wire so they could continue on the way. Of course I snapped a few photos and a little video. It's not every day you see a piece of history rolling down the streets of New Jersey like that...
I'm told that the wings and tail are getting shipped down separately...
The company that is doing the transport down to NC actually has a live tracking thing on thier website so you can see exactly where the plane is. Check it out.
2 weeks ago Kel and I shoved off on a 3-city Eastern European adventure to "the homeland" Poland and the Czech Republic. We started to talk about and plan this thing back in February and it all finally came together with a 3 city visit. Warsaw, Krakow, and Prague. The seed was planted when my college roommate and his wife, Mark and Jeanne, stopped by over the holidays for dinner. They are living in Warsaw and encouraged us to visit at some point....so we took them up on the offer...
I plan on doing this trip recap in 3 parts, a trilogy of sorts: 1. Warsaw, 2. Krakow, and 3. Prague. There are a ton of photos to share so this will help break it up a bit.
Wednesday, May 18
Our trip began on a Wednesday evening with a flight out of Philly to London. As usual...the 6hr flight over was long and to make it worse it was hot as hell up there. Not sure if the a/c wasn't working, but you could tell people were just uncomfortable. There was an older gentleman who actually passed out a few times on his way to the bathroom. Luckily there was a woman who was a doctor/nurse who was able to help the flight attendants administer oxygen and get him back on his feet. It happened at the worst possible time to...3hrs in. I actually glanced up at the moving map feature on the entertainment system and said to Kel that there wasn't a worse time for that to happen. If he had needed more medical attention there weren't many options for getting on the ground. For a minute I thought we might be headed to Iceland for bit.
Once we arrived at BA's Terminal 5 in London the following morning we had like zero time to make our connecting flight to Warsaw. We technically had about an hour and 15 minutes, but at Terminal 5, that's nothing. By the time we got through security and then got a cup of fruit and a coffee it was time to head to the gate. We boarded a bus and it took us out to the plane. It was all rush, rush, rush...but we made it okay. Warsaw, here we come!
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