First Stage Production- Seussical, Jr.

Rudy spent four weeks at a summer camp at The Eagle Theatre in Hammonton where the kids learned about theater, auditioned, and put on a production of Seussical, Jr. He had such a great time! So we are now in search of local kids theater productions for him to be a part of.

Opening night.

After the performance with his gift from the Gjerdes.

Rudy and Lily

Ice cream after (and a rare picture of Ashton).

Friends who traveled quite a distance to come see his show.

Second night. All looking pensive and expectant.

After the show with Grandpa and Grandmom

And more ice cream

Third performance, a matinee. With Paige

With Will, Nathan, Jared

With Uncle Bill and Aunt Renee and Paige

With the boys and Donna

Final performance

Thanking all the counselors who worked with them.

The whole cast

Silly pictures

Field Station Dinosaur

Rudy and I were in North jersey today visiting with some friends of mine. We were pretty close to Field Station Dinosaur in Secaucus, so when we were finished with my friends, we headed over there. Field Station is a park of animatronic dinosaurs. They are (mostly) real size. There were also shows to see and things to participate in. When we arrived, Rudy was given a passport and told he had to complete 6 activities and get stamps from them and he would get something when he left (it ended up being a sticker in the passport book, but he was ok with that).


The entry.

(I'm not even going to try to name all the dinos because I know I will get some of them wrong. As we walked along, Rudy of course was able to name almost all of them!)

A T-rex behind us.

Argentinosaurus- possibly the tallest dinosaur

A baby dinosaur

Here comes the t-rex!

Rudy volunteered- to put his head in the t-rex's mouth.

(here the performer is whispering to him to make sure he understands it is just a puppet and it won't really hurt- haha)

After his feat (see video below) he then was able to touch it.

On a dig

Using LaQ blocks to build a dinosaur

The raptors (he was disappointed because they were smaller than they should have been).

Rudy versus the T-rex 1

Rudy versus the T-rex 2

Bear Creek Preserve

Today we took a short hike before dinner. Bear Creek preserve was supposed to be about 1 mile out and back. It obviously hadn't been maintained very much as right from the start the grasses were pretty tall.

Indiana Jones wandered ahead as usual.

There were many downed trees from recent storms that we had to climb over.

A beautiful creek.

There was a little shelter that might have been used for fishing or hunting that I took this from.

The shelter from outside.

Part way in we encountered this downed tree. Rudy did some reconnaissance work for us but determined it was too hard to get through, so we cut our walk short. We'll have to check this out again sometime.