The Harlem Globetrotters

Another basketball day today, this one lasting beyond church.  Of course, at KidPak, we're still right there in the midst of our "Slam Dunk" series, which has been a lot of fun.  You can see Josh here doing a brief illustrated message, and below, Maddie took other pictures of our service.  We were talking about Joshua and the walls of Jericho, and with our basketball theme, we were using some air horns.  

Air horn etiquette was a fun topic for the skits, and they made for some noisy fun on stage.  This was a great skit!

And there was the Wisenheimer invention too!  Maddie got this picture of our neighbor, and many other good pictures that she shared on the church's site.  

After church, we went to see the Harlem Globetrotters!  I remember last seeing these guys at Madison Square Garden, and have always wanted to take Maddie to see them.  It just never worked out until now, and it was kind of cool given that we're in the middle of this basketball series.

We went down to the Gas South Arena, and Maddie invited a friend to see the entertainment, and it was really a lot of fun.  Our seats were really good, and for the first time I can remember, we were actually on the big screen there, waving "hi!"  

The team was wearing a different uniform, but the tricks and talent were the same.  And those poor Washington Generals!  They've been losing and picked on for decades!  That "other" team is always there to be the team to play against, and maybe one day they'll win.  I doubt it though, because despite whatever craziness is going on inside that court - or outside - the Harlem Globetrotters always come out on top.  In fact, they were frequently way up top into the audience, as you can see here.  

This is one of the team players called Hot Shot, racing up the stairs to avoid getting payback for all the pranks he was pulling on another team member.  He wound up getting some other audience members sucked into the action way up here, as he was running by us.

I think the highlight was the dunking for me.  Quite a bit of elaborate slam dunks and a lot of variety thrown in.  The gags were great and the audience participation was really fun too.

In the end it was a great time - glad we went!  This was on a list of things I wanted to do for a while, and it was a great time to go see them play.  We all enjoyed it, and got home rather quickly after that.  Last week we were in Harlem, and now we were seeing the Harlem Globetrotters.

The rest of the day was quiet, of course.  The first part was fairly busy.  We watched the second part of "The Ten Commandments," and even watched the six-part "behind-the-scenes" video that had some interesting stories about the filming of the movie.  Mom was telling me some things that they're discovering about the pyramids, which is amazing that there's still something new to discover.  There are apparently these very large structures beneath the pyramids, and that's going to be very interesting to learn more about.  Also, I believe they've found the Pharaoh's son, the one who died on the night of Passover.  That was another interesting thing we were learning tonight.

But it was late and we were ready for some sleep.  We did our reading tonight, and afterwards said our prayers.  The Plush Entourage made it back to Maddie's room where everyone was tucked in, all while whistling "Sweet Georgia Brown."  Time for a good night's rest!