Claudia has been having a good year of soccer, she has played defence most of the year, last week she played the second half at forward.
Claudia taking a goal kick.
They lost 2-0, they got close towards the end of the game, but just couldn’t put one away.
Mixing it up on the field.
Water break.
Going up against some of the taller opponents.
It doesn’t look like they have playoffs this year, just a one day elimination play down. It happens on the Sunday after we get back from holidays.
We have pretty much figured out our vacation for this summer. In August we are doing a road trip down to the east coast. We have a cottage booked on Prince Edward Island for a week, we also are planning to visit, Quebec City, the Cabot Trail, Halifax, Moncton and to work our way back through the states. We’re hoping to visit the LL Bean flagship store (open 24 hrs), the Maine beaches, and catch a New Hampshire Fisher Cats baseball game in Manchester. Hoping to have some vacation amnesia by the time we get back.
Angela, Claudia and I headed down to Exhibition Place today to take in the free Honda Indy Day. Gillian was unable to come with us this year since she is taking summer school. She is fast tracking her grade 12 physics, so she can take french as well next year. Here are the girls next to a set of tires.
Due to the heat we went down earlier, so we walked around the Indy Car Paddock. Each team has trailers like these, and if you wait long enough, a driver might come out and sign autographs.
Part of the car from E.J. Visio’s car.
The Paddock area gas station.
Some of the crew working on Takuma Sato’s car. He drives for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing.
William Ashley China custom-designed the Honda Indy Toronto commemorative trophies. The official Honda Indy show car was on display with each tire supported by one bone china teacup, demonstrating the strength of bone china.
A full dinner table with all the place settings.
As always the Free Friday lets you sit anywhere. We like the grandstand behind pit lane.
Looking over towards the air-conditioned Direct Energy Centre. With the temperature reaching 35 degrees C it was a busy place.
James Hinchcliffe out for his practice run.
After the practice round we headed over to where the cars and drivers go by to get back to the paddock.
Claudia.
Angela.
The paddock area was busy after the first practice session,
One of the Firestone tires from the practice session.
Angela and Claudia posing in the winners area.
Honda is the major sponsor and they sponsored the free friday.
One of the best parts of the Honda Indy is getting to see the drivers up close. They either have to walk or scooter through the crowds to get to and from the track. Here is Helio Castroneves of Brazil. He had his highest finish in Toronto, finishing 6th, he was pretty excited during the post race interview, as his previous best was 10th.
Ryan Briscoe of Australia.
Takuma Sato from Japan.
Chip Ganassi, the owner of Target Chip Ganassi Racing.
Just after the practice session started, there was a loud thud, it turned out Justin Wilson couldn’t stop his car when he was coming into the pit and rolled into the back of Sebastien Bourdais car in front of him. In the process four crewmen were injured.
Sebastien Bourdais was a little steamed at Justin Wilson and some photographer who was trying to photo the injured crew men.
Josef Newgarden of the USA, one of the rookies this year.
Marco Andretti of the USA. He is the son of Michael and grandson of Mario.
Sebastien Bourdais of France getting a ride on his car.
The only female this year at the Toronto Indy, Simona de Silvestro of Switzerland.
Michael Andretti, 7 time winner of the Toronto Molson Indy and owner of Andretti Autosport.
Alex Tagliani of Canada.
Dario Franchitti of Scotland. He was the pole sitter for the race.
A crowd favourite, local boy James Hincliffe of Oakville. He is driving the Andretti Autosport Go Daddy car that Danica Patrick drove previously.
Graham Rahal of the USA and his girlfriend Laken Kurtz.
Justin Wilson of England.
E.J. Visio of Venezuela.
Charlie Kimball of the USA. He finished in 2nd place.
JR Hildebrand of the USA.
The winner of the 2012 Toronto Honda Indy and his third victory in a row, Ryan Hunter-Reay.
There were 25 cars in field for this years race. There are three engines powering the IZOD Indycars, Honda, Chevrolet and Lotus. All of the teams except one are running either Honda or Chevrolet. They all use Firestone tires. This is Simon Pagenaud of Schmidt Hamilton HP Motorsports.
James Hinchcliffe of Team GoDaddy.com owned by Andretti Autosport.
Graham Rahal of Service Central Chip Ganassi Racing.
Helio Castroneves of Team Penske.
E.J. Visio of KV Racing Technology.
Ryan Briscoe of Team Penske.
Ryan Hunter-Reay of Team DHL/Sun Drop Citrus Soda owned by Andretti Autosport.
Simona de Silvestro of Nuclear Clean Air Energy Lotus HVM Racing.
Alex Tagliani of Team Barracuda-BHA owned by Bryan Herta Autosport w/Curb-Agajanian.
JR Hildebrand driving the National Guard Panther Racing car.
Dario Franchitti in the Target Chip Ganassi Racing car.
Tony Kanaan of GEICO/Mouser Electronics KV Racing T echnology w/SH.
Sebastien Bourdais of True Car Dragon Racing.
Marco Andretti of Team Dr Pepper owned by Andretti Autosport.
Ed Carpenter driving the Fuzzy’s Vodka / Ed Carpenter Racing car.
Will Power in the Verizon Team Penske car.
The final standings of the race.
Angela and Claudia’s soccer season is well under way. They have been playing well. I took some photos this week at Angela’s game.
Angela getting into the action.
An action shot.
Angela’s team lost 1-0 late in the game. They are currently tied for 4th out of 10 teams.
Last week they were playing the amarant0 team, so it was essentially red against red.
Canada Day we held our 2nd Annual Rainwater Ribfest with the Skjold-Pettersen’s. Here is Lars finishing off the first course chicken wings.
Second course was the ribs.
Lars sinking further into his chair. Having polished off the chicken wings, ribs, Susan’s pulled pork, burgers made with ground beef and italian sausage, bbq shrimps and potato salad we were all stuffed and moving slow.
The girls still taking advantage of the swings.
Lily after a busy day with Loki, Chloe and Milo.
Uncle Tak will be having a retrospective show at the McMaster University Museum of Art from August 18 – December 8, 2012. The show is called Chronicles of Form and Place: Works on Paper by Takao Tanabe
On September 28-29, there will be a guided tour of the McMaster Museum of Arts Takao Tanabe exhibition of landscape drawings and paintings, it will be followed by an outdoor landscape drawing activity. Culture Days is a collaborative coast-to-coast-to-coast volunteer movement to raise the awareness, accessibility, participation, and engagement of Canadians in the arts and cultural life of their communities. This is the third annual event.
The weather is looking good for today, enjoy your Canada (or Spain or Italy) Day.
