Day 193 in 2024

Day 2 in Stratford: lunch snacks at Jobsite and Black Swan, Romeo and Juliet at the Festival, dinner at home

Day 192 in 2024

Day 1 in Stratford: lunch from Sirkel Foods, Something Rotten at the Festival, dinner at "home", and La Cage Aux Folles at the Avon

Day 111 in 2024

Last day of Worlds. For those who understand the lingo, we finished qualifiers in 7th on our field of 75, and ended up captaining alliance 6. We won one of our playoff matches and were eliminated in the third round. This is a wonderful accomplishment, and while the first moment after loss it is only the loss you feel, there was so much to celebrate. Field playoffs finished before lunch and someo of us celebrated wtih a crawfish lunch before heading back to the convention center to watch the full Worlds playoffs. Tomorrow we take these tired kids home. It has not yet set in that it's over. That will come later.

Day 108 in 2024

Looooong day. Slept in (until 8:30) after getting in at 2am, then the kids released the robot from its travel crate, did robot things, then more robot things, while I oversaw getting food set up for the week and getting the rest of the team picked up from the airport. It's going to be a great week!

Day 26 in 2024

Day three,starting with a walking tour while Calvin was in rehearsal (also during rehearsal, the news of Calvin's early acceptance into the University of Michigan's College of Engineering!!!), and ending with a joint birthday and admission celebration at Reserve Wine and Food Bar for our last night in town.