Various Recent Things

We've been watching a lot of soccer this summer, and lately that has included a lot of live games. Last night we saw Chelsea and Paris play an exhibition game here in Charlotte. On Wednesday we were in Atlanta for the semifinals of the Gold Cup (North American men's international tournament). It was a double header. The US lost the first game, but the second game between Mexico and Panama was full of controversy and excitement. Here is a shot of us from a game the week before from earlier in the tournament when other teams played in Charlotte.

While we were in Atlanta for the games, we were with Matthew and Lindsay, and we had a nice time hanging out, eating, walking around downtown, and doing touristing things. Here we are at CNN - we took the tour which was kind of neat, but didn't really tell us anything we didn't know or really let us see anything - a lot of windows into office cubicles and empty studios. Maybe if someone had been broadcasting at the time it would have been more exciting. In any case we are glad we did it.

Miran and I also did a quick tour of coca-cola when Matthew and Lindsay went to the Bodies exhibit.  Here we are posing in front.

Last week was also our 11th anniversary and the Bajram Holiday (which fell on the same day this year). We didn't do much to celebrate either, but I did make some Baklava, which is the traditional Bajram desert.

 And there was a definite theme among the anniversary cards we got this year ...