99 to 98?

Chris took Josh along to Dima's hockey practice and to keep him occupied they put him in the score keeper's booth and let him run the timer during the game. While he was in there he was goofing around with the rest of the controls and at one point the score on the board read 99 to 98 and later on while the kids were playing he pressed the buzzer button and all the kids on the ice stopped then once the coaches saw what happened they were like "keep playing, keep playing!"
Dima did score a goal against some pretty good players. I think that his new flip-the-puck technique might have something to do with the extra practice he's getting during the almost continual game of hockey that gets started after school in our driveway and at times includes a bunch of kids from the neighborhood. Josh befriended some of the older girls (imagine that !) on the school bus and he's got them coming over when they have time on school nights.

Yesterday Josh got to go to Grandview Raceway to see some dirt racing - not official I guess these guys just get their cars out after working on them over the winter and run them to see how they're doing. The best part about his day was when a tire flew off a car as it went around a turn.

While they were at the racetrack Dima and I got out to Marsh Creek State Park to go find some newly placed geocaches there. We found some cool stuff while exploring the side of the park that we don't normally go to. Each cache we got to I hung back once we got to the area and then Dima was the one who actually uncovered the cache. He was proud of himself for finding them and I must say that he did a good job of sticking it out for the several miles of hiking. At one point we walked across a narrow boardwalk like thing and he thought that was cool and one of the highlights of his day was getting his shoe stuck in the mud while crossing a small stream.... as in shoe stays, foot keeps going... luckily he was smart enough to jump on one foot til he could sit down while I retrieved his shoe! Nice day for a hike and we got 4 caches along the way.