Synchronicity

Off to part two of the honeymoon -- going to see the Police in concert at Hershey Park with Tom and Amanda and Tom's brother and sister-in-law. To start off the evening, we did a little tailgating.

Then it was on to the show. The Police sounded AWESOME! It's amazing that all that music came from only three people. The two hours that they played flew by and they played just about every Police song you could think of.

Beautiful weather. Awesome sunset.

The only blemish on the night was the more than two hours we spent in the parking lot after the show. But here's the funny part -- we probably would have been out of there a lot sooner if we had been looking in thr right direction. We were looking at the exit to the right, which never moved. If we had looked to the left, we would have seen the parking lot emptying. Here's a picture of the parking lot the following morning.

Next, we went to the American Antique Car Association Museum. Our luck they were having a special exhibit of race cars from the 1800s to the 1980s. These are some of those cars.

Like Matt says, drive it like you stole it!

One of the vehicles at the Museum was the Hershey's Kissmobile. We knew that this year is the 100th anniversary of the Hershey's kiss. What we didn't know is that its exact birthday is July 7. This intrigued us.

So we headed to Hershey Park to see if we could find anything with 7/7/07 on it, which we couldn't. But we did find this wall of giant Hershey's Kisses as a consolation. And a couple of stares as we took our picture in the middle of the gift shop.

From Hershey, we stopped to pick up the trailer for the car so we could embark on part 3 of the honeymoon. But you'll have to wait a day or two to read about it.

And we're off...

So yesterday was the official start to our honeymoon. We made a day trip to Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs. Our ADD definitely kicked in here. Do we bet on the ponies or do we play the slots? Ponies? Slots? Ponies? Slots?

We started off with the ponies. Some of the picks were less than scientific, like the horses that had cool sounding names. Some of the other picks we went with the experts. Both methods seemed to work.

On our way into Pocono Downs, we followed a horse trailer for about 3 or 4 miles. When we walked up to the track, the trailer was parked out front, and it had 777 on the outside. Was it a sign? We asked the people the name of the horse. They told us it was Falkland Fighter, and it was running in the 7th race. However, they weren't too optimistic because it was running out of the "8-hole." Turns out that means it had drawn the 8th spot. Well, we bet on it anyway, and it came in second. So we took a little dough home on Falkland Fighter.

We'd love to show you some pictures of the slots too, but they're pretty picky about you taking pictures in the casino. But if you check out the slots tickets, you can see that we did pretty well. And we picked up Mr. Lucky as a souvenir. We tried to stick to the Lucky 7 slots for obvious reasons. Matt was the big winner of the day. He hit some sort of double Lucky 7 combination and won big!

There I am with part of our winnings. All in all, we came out ahead, so it was a pretty successful day. We'll parlay our winnings into our trip to Montreal, which is part 4 of the honeymoon. Keep reading. There's much more to come.

Who's laughing now?

I am! Because we're married!!!

Thanks to everyone who joined us at the wedding. It was a hectic week but totally worth it. But now it's back to business as usual.

We're opening a challenge to all those photographers (and wannabes) who attended the wedding. Send us your best shot (or shots) from the wedding. The best ones will be posted on the blog -- and our favorite might even get a prize. Hmmmmm ... year-old cupcakes. Send your entries to mattjen777@comcast.net or send a disc to the house. Good luck!

Happy Birthday America!

Happy Fourth of July! Yes, 7/7/07 is coming quickly, but we took a little time to celebrate July 4th. It might be raining out, but we busted out the sparklers for some patriotic fun! Off to watch some real fireworks on the TV!