July 4th Weekend at the Sands

What can be better than a 4-day weekend? How about a 4-day weekend that rolls into Monday and Tuesday of the week! Gotta Love It! Here are some pix from the evening of the fireworks on Saturday night at the Sands. Enjoy!

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Phil, Trey, Mike, Duo - Camden 6.30.06

One of the most anticipated shows of the summer for me rolled into the Tweeter Center in Camden on Friday night. The scene was classic loose Camden, but we didn't hang out in the lot too long because there was serious music onstage early in the evening. Check out the photo gallery I put together from the epic show:

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Phil Lesh & Friends
7/30/06 Tweeter Center Camden

Set One:
China Cat Sunflower, The Golden Road, Bird Song, Bartering Lines, All Allong the Watchtower+

Set Two:
Lady With a Fan+ > Terrapin Station+, Sugaree+, Saint Stephen+ -> The Eleven+ -> Rosemary+ -> Fire on the Mountain+, I Know You Rider+

Encore:
Donor Rap / Band Intros
Box of Rain+

Notes:
+ - With Trey Anastasio

Band:
Phil Lesh
Joan Osborne
Larry Campbell
Barry Sless
Rob Baracco
Greg Osby
John Molo

Gal Cuts 12 Inches - Donates Mane to Locks of Love

Well, after 3 plus years of thick, unadultered mane-growing, my beautiful wife cut her hair last night - about 12 inches - and donated to the wonderful charity "Locks of Love."

She was going to grow it another 2-3 inches during the summer and cut it after, but the heat was too much. So we all gathered around the salon - Tal came and the kids came with our bbsitter, Brooke - and we chronicled the whole event.

Gal was really emotional after her mane was cut, but we all cheered and made her feel like a champ. Everyone commented on how it was such a great thing she did for the charity. I love her new "do. "

I've also posted a picture of how it looked the next day.

Jonah & Eden's Last Day of School 2006

Well, this year has definitely gone by faster than any year I can remember. It literally seems like yesterday that they entered Kindergarden (for Jonah) and Pre-K (for Eden). Gal has been incredibly active at PS 158 - and the kids love that she walks them to school everyday.

Here's the final snapshot of the kids getting ready before their very last day of the year.

SAMURAI JONAH

For Father's Day, we went to our cousin's house in Philly and played on a giant water slide. Jonah thought he was Jack Black in Nacho Libre - and performed all kinds of ridiculous samurai warrior moves. Check it...

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Jonah's Mega 6th Birthday Throwdown

Jonah turned 6 on May 30, which was the same weekend we kicked off the summer at the Sands Beach Club. Everyone was ready to party and I planned a massive treasure hunt for the kids of the club (took me 4 hours to put together, burying toys and clues in the sand and around the entire beach club). We had a kids dance contest, dodgeball and basketball game, sandcrab and m&m races, pinata bashing and more. Shanon Stapleton grabbed my lens and began photographing the kids dance contest and the sand crab races - which you'll see in the photo gallery. We all really lived it up. Everyone got into the party. Happy 6th Birthday Jonah!

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The Unger's Crawfish Boil - April '06

Part of the annual rites of spring involve heading up to Hastings-on-the-Hudson to eat some of the best crawfish and home-made jambalaya you've tasted outside New Orleans. Dave and Dana do it up right and host a family afternoon of amazing food, funk and funk! Yeah You Right! My boy Michael Weschler snapped the pix of the fun.