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Pictures from the weekend:
Oct. 7th, 2002 07:14 amI decorated the front of our house and we hung up the birdseed bats (the "ghost" white pumpkin is in the last one - we drove a few towns further west to grab one at a farm stand): http://thahood.net/holidays/Halloween_Decorations/
We had breakfast at one of the Brazilian bakeries in the town center (it was SO yummy and cheap, though I don't know what it was we ate since nothing on the menu was in English). The place was really crowded with people in their Sunday's best coming from church so we ate at the Veteran's Park down the street: http://www.diabolis.net/albums/places/Veteran_Park/
From there we headed to my nephew's soccer game - it was SO amusing. My sister's description was totally accurate about the kids when they stopped practicing and started the game. She said that "they look like you dumped a bunch of cockroaches out in the middle of a floor and they just run around like crazy and bump into each other". There's a picture of the two of us together at the end - I look really silly in it because I wasn't ready yet for the camera: http://www.diabolis.net/albums/random_family_stuff/JD_Soccer/pictures/
And finally, on the way back home we passed the Wallex. They are starting to demolish the place now to make room for a large CVS and some more retail space. That place has been in the city for years (I think over 30) and the Tortolla family decided to close it down because they didn't have the resources to modernize (they still didn't have electronic scoring for bowling and the pin setting machines were ancient. At one time the Wallex was the cool place to go bowling and Rollerskating in the Boston area (no kidding) - they used to have huge national rollerskating competitions there.
Its really sad to see the whole side of it ripped away, lots of orange construction equipment in the parking lot and a chain link fence around it. At least we got some pix of the front of it and the old neat sign for our memories: http://www.diabolis.net/albums/places/Wallex/
We had breakfast at one of the Brazilian bakeries in the town center (it was SO yummy and cheap, though I don't know what it was we ate since nothing on the menu was in English). The place was really crowded with people in their Sunday's best coming from church so we ate at the Veteran's Park down the street: http://www.diabolis.net/albums/places/Veteran_Park/
From there we headed to my nephew's soccer game - it was SO amusing. My sister's description was totally accurate about the kids when they stopped practicing and started the game. She said that "they look like you dumped a bunch of cockroaches out in the middle of a floor and they just run around like crazy and bump into each other". There's a picture of the two of us together at the end - I look really silly in it because I wasn't ready yet for the camera: http://www.diabolis.net/albums/random_family_stuff/JD_Soccer/pictures/
And finally, on the way back home we passed the Wallex. They are starting to demolish the place now to make room for a large CVS and some more retail space. That place has been in the city for years (I think over 30) and the Tortolla family decided to close it down because they didn't have the resources to modernize (they still didn't have electronic scoring for bowling and the pin setting machines were ancient. At one time the Wallex was the cool place to go bowling and Rollerskating in the Boston area (no kidding) - they used to have huge national rollerskating competitions there.
Its really sad to see the whole side of it ripped away, lots of orange construction equipment in the parking lot and a chain link fence around it. At least we got some pix of the front of it and the old neat sign for our memories: http://www.diabolis.net/albums/places/Wallex/
