The pictures from Mikey and Carrie’s wedding are up. More later from the rest of our trip. :-)

Dear Republican Party,

Thank you so much for your wonderfully surprising VP choice today.

Wow! Governor of Alaska (pop. 683,478) for maybe 2 years and a city counselor. So nice of you to provide a candidate that makes ours look highly experienced in comparison. I know that your party is not really known as the party of women and minorities, but you do have a few token women who are much more highly qualified for this position.

Even better she comes complete with her very own scandal already. Nice job!

By the way did you really think those of us supporting Hillary were only paying attention to gender? That we wouldn’t notice the unqualified, pro-life, pro-NRA conservative bit as long as you picked a woman?

Thanks again!

Lisa

Where are the blog posts? Well, in order to post I require my computer which is being regularly commandeered to watch the Olympics since it has the best video. Mommy, my favorite events are equestrian, fencing, soccer, swimming, shooting, archery… You get the idea. The only one Piper is not crazy about so far is diving, and I’m really not sure she’s seen enough to judge. The poor thing stayed up until almost 11:00 because she so desperately wanted to see the U.S. walk in during the Parade of Nations and we weren’t sure what NBC was going to put up. Not like any kids would want to watch this or anything. She was so tired. When Piper doesn’t have my computer, Tim does. Luckily they let me watch too. :-)

In other news, it feels a bit like June here. Rain, rain, rain. Occasionally we see the sun, but lately it’s pretty much always planning to rain. Ironically, I’ve been tracking the weather in Portland and Vancouver with an eye towards packing for our impending trip and it looks like it’s beautiful there. Huh?

Piper and I went on a mission yesterday to find the new color we’re going to paint our house. We went to Benjamin Moore and picked up a bunch of paint swatches. After being assured at the paint store the best way to find out the color of a house you like is to just go ask them we headed over. (Turns out they won’t think you’re crazy, it’s flattering. Who knew?) No one was home, so we sat in the driveway comparing our paint swatches. Piper has a great eye for color. Turns out it was one of the colors from a historical swatch I pulled that I was pretty convinced wasn’t right. Not too surprising given the house is a Victorian I guess. We’re 90 percent sure it is Van Alen green. Upon review, we’ve decided to go one shade darker with Kittery Point green. Now if it ever stops raining, they might actually be able to paint…

Guess who we saw last night? Fantastic show. The new album translated really well to the stage. Instead of the usual flat screens there was a huge globe in the middle of the stadium. There was even an acoustic bit in the stands – not on our side of course but cool all the same. Definitely on my must see list going forward. Now if we could just convince Piper to like some rock music. Earphones would be a must, but at some point it would be great if we didn’t have to fly in a babysitter as accommodating as she is about coming. :-)

Boston Globe Coldplay

Just read the Boston Herald article, as usual, I don’t like their coverage as much as the Globe, so I won’t link, but they also have Steven Spielberg in the list of attendees who caused all the fuss right before the show started.

And I finally found a setlist…

Life In Technicolor
Violet Hill
Clocks
In My Place
Viva La Vida
Yes
42
Fix You
Strawberry Swing
Chinese Sleep Chant – B Stage
God Put A Smile On Your Face – B Stage
Speed Of Sound
Yellow – Full Band
Lost!
The Scientist – Acoustic
Death Will Never Conquer – Acoustic
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Politik
Lovers In Japan
Death & All His Friends/The Escapist