Saturday began early and cold, cold, cold. The temperature got down to 31 just before sun rise and a brisk wind came up as the morning wore on. Nonetheless, we all headed out to Braden's cross country sectional meet. We are so proud of her for the training and competing in cross country. It has increased her endurance in soccer and given her another athletic venue for accomplishment and friends. She came in 23 out of 98 sixth, seventh, and eighth graders--Braden is in seventh grade. She didn't qualify for the state meet but she dropped her time by 20 seconds on a challenging course competing against girls a year older than she. As you can see, everyone was happy. Did I mention that we were also cold?
You can see more photos of the cross country meet here.
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Portion of a bubble map showing the paths
of different sub-atomic particles discovered
at Fermilab. |
Marilyn and I took the boys home while Brendan, Eileen and Braden stayed for the awards and final results. Since we had passed Fermilab on the way to Geneva on Friday, we decided to go back and visit. Brock was interested so he joined us. One of Brenda's roommates at Chicago, Jim, was the trigger expert for Fermilab and was perhaps the only non-drug dealer who wore a pager in Chicago in the 1980's. Fermilab's particle accelerator, the Tevatron, ceased operations in 2011 leaving the search for the Higgs boson particle to CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. The site is very intriguing and continues a number of physics activities including education. We spent time in the education center which Brock especially enjoyed. The large site is very pastoral complete with a buffalo herd and prairie restoration areas. The architecture is also quite striking showing some of the influence of Frank Loyd Wright.
You can see more photos here.
From there we went to the frozen tundra of Oswego High School soccer fields. Braden played well in an evenly matched game. Her team won 1-0 with Braden getting an assist on that goal.
You can see more photos here.
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