We have posted the 2 Month portraits of our neighbor Gabriel Jr on the Learn Studios website. Matt takes all the credit for this photo-shoot since I was out of town on a business trip 
July 2007
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Mon 30 Jul 2007
Tue 24 Jul 2007
Chris, Christine, Matt & I went to see the Counting Crows in concert along with the bands Collective Soul and Live. They are on tour together doing what they call the “Triple Play” where you see all 3 bands perform at various baseball stadiums around the country. They played in Wilmington, DE’s “Blue Rocks” minor league stadium on July 22nd, and they are coming back to the area on August 14th to the Aberdeen, MD “Cal Ripken Jr. Stadium”, although apparently th band Low Stars will be replacing Collective Soul for the Aberdeen show. Good show, good music, interesting people watching….
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Sun 22 Jul 2007
To enjoy the nice Saturday weather, Matt, his parents, their dog Buddy, and I went out on the Susquehanna River for some boating. Buddy was very skeptical of the water, but after falling in twice, he managed to perch himself on a jetski with his Papa and actually enjoy the ride!
Tue 10 Jul 2007
Matt, Susan (Matt’s mom), and I traveled out to Las Vegas, Nevada for the July 4th weekend. We were lucky enough to be there on one of the luckiest days of late… 7/7/07, and have 2 T-shirts to prove it Not only is “7″ a lucky number for gamblers, but it was also a Saturday and we were tripping over brides, grooms, and their various family members who made the trek to Vegas for a 7/7/07 wedding! Personally I think the grooms picked the date because it’s easy to remember… just one number and you know the month, day, AND year! Haha…
We toured most of the casinos on the strip, including major ones like the Venitian, Flamingo, Paris, New York New York, Excalibur, Luxor, Mandalay Bay, Bellagio, Caesars’ Palace, Circus circus, The Mirage, the Las Vegas Hilton, and a few more. We also spent an evening in the older section of Vegas, “downtown” or Freemont Street. Matt’s mom and I both won $100 on a large Wheel of Fortune there! I also attended an informal Craps tutorial session and played my first games there.
My favorite casinos just decoration/content wise were the Venitian, Paris, and for the party atmosphere… the Rio! We got to watch some “flare bartending” which we’d seen on the Food Network. The music really made the whole gambling experience more interesting than the typical casino noises.
On Friday, we drove out to visit Hoover Dam which Matt & I toured while Susan waited in the gift shop. The most impressive part of the whole trip was probably visiting the dam and realizing how many smart engineers it took to make the thing! I’m an engineer and not nearly that smart 
Also while we were out there, some random nut case went gun happy in the New York, New York casino. Luckily we weren’t there that night, but I do remember hearing all the sirens heading down the strip, then of course we heard about it the next day. Ironic thing is, a co-worker of mine went to Vegas a few months ago when they discovered a bomb (or maybe a bomb threat?) in a casino! We’ve joked to our other co-workers that it’s a sign they shouldn’t take a trip there anytime soon
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