NBA Playoffs and Mel's Parents

LeBron and the Cavs got beat by the Magic and won't be playing for the NBA championship; I am crushed. This was supposed to be their season!

Nevertheless, Mel's parents had the opportunity of a lifetime to go see Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals in Cleveland on Saturday (May 30). That by itself is pretty awesome, and I couldn't help but to be jealous of them. But to top it all off, their seats were two rows behind the Cavs bench! And regular season Cavs games are exciting enough to begin with; I can't imagine how great the atmosphere is at a do-or-die playoff game!

The whole time I was watching the game I'd look very closely every time there was a shot of the Cavs bench, squinting to make out their faces on our tiny analog TV. (It definitely would've been nice to watch this game in HD). Well, I finally pegged down where they were sitting--it's pretty tricky when the people in the crowd are just little blurry blobs. Here's a photo pointing them out, along with a few other celebrities* sitting in the row in front of them (the 'friends and family of the team' row). And yes, I took a picture of the TV with my camera.

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The Sports Illustrated photographers also captured a photo of Jim and Linda behind their famous seat-buddies. It's much better quality of course.

-jason

*For those of you uninformed about sports, Mariano Rivera and A-Rod (Alex Rodriguez) play for the New York Yankees, and Josh Cribbs plays football (kick returner) for the Cleveland Browns.

730 days of wedded bliss!

It's been two years today since Jason and I embarked on this whole marriage adventure. What a wild ride ;) We've got a softball game tonight which doesn't leave much time for celebrating, so later in the month we're planning to take a trip to Houston to see the Astros play the Tigers.

(This is Jason now. I just remembered that it was leap year in 2008, so it's actually 731 days. How's that for nitpicky?)

Rainbow

Last weekend, we went to see Angels and Demons at the theater. We heard some rain on the roof while the movie was playing, and sure enough, there was a thunderstorm in the neighborhood as we left. After managing to get in the car without being washed away, we made it home where the sun was shining brightly. As you may know, bright evening sun plus heavy rain off in the distance leads to rainbows. This one was especially surprising, because as we stood outside too look at it, the colors kept intensifying and then a second rainbow showed up as well! (For those of you interested, click here to read about rainbows on Wikipedia. It's physics!) The camera had a hard time capturing it well, but here are a few photos anyway.

Juno and Mel enjoying the view.

-jason