A long long wonderful week

Callahan spent the week at IMSA taking a Science class.

Science Explorers, Jr. During this year's Science Explorers, Jr., your inquiring young scientist will explore unusual science careers, dig through past civilizations and examine fossilized remains, investigate natural disasters, work to solve environmental issues, and play with color in chemistry, biology and physics. There's a different topic for every day! This hands-on program is developed and taught by IMSA high school students with the help of IMSA staff. This year's Jr. topics are Natural Disasters and Weather, Oddball Scientist Jobs, Archeology and Paleontology, Color, and The Environment.

He went mon-fri 8:30 am to 3 pm. Highlights for Callahan

were disecting a cow eye and making explosives.

This is the 1 week out of each year that the

light of passion glows in Cal's eyes.

He went last year and talk about it until this years class started.

He can't wait to go there for high school. you live there in

dorms 10-12 grades. Freshman year is spent at your own high school

The last hour of the last day parents are allowed in. Such an

amazing school. The brightest in the country attend imsa

to quote Cal

" I am finally with kids like me, they are as smart

or even smarter than me"

Cal on the big screen (in green shirt)

Callahan cutting the fat off of the cows eye

(look on plate)

I got a play by play of the operation

He remembers every little detail.

(again Cal displayed on big screen)

check out the research room.. yeah

it's only a high school

It was so worth 5 days of getting up at 5:30am

driving 2o miles to Aurora, then 50+ miles to Skokie

for 4 hrs of work, just to turn around and

drive back to Aurora to pick up Cal

by 3pm. then back to Lombard.

Damn near 150 miles a day

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GO THUNDER!

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Thursday night the Thunder played their first game

of the season in North Aurora.

The North Aurora tournament is 4 days long

The boys were on fire, hitting was insane.

We ended up slaughtering the N Aurora

team 15-3. We play 3 games on Saturday and

up to 3 games on Sunday, depending on how we play

Saturday.

These kids are amazing and have equally great coaches

that spend a lot of time teaching these kids

They work hard and practice 2 hrs 3x a week

and 1 hour prior to every game

My TJ pitching

"good game walk"

Coach Ross gives the boys 1 can of pop after each game...yeah, I said pop

The boys just love it and so do I!

It is such a treat after a long hot ballgame

brings back memories of when I was a kid...you got pop

after a sporting event. I'm so done with the healthy snack for

sports and schools. That needs to be done at home

Don't get me started...

30 years ago there was no such thing as Plus clothing or a 4x

what a 20x, 30 years from now?

Just say no people!

and enjoy a Coca cola after 3 hours of baseball

After TJ's tournament we stayed at the Aurora Holiday Inn

(across the street from IMSA)

How precious is Karrick sleeping with his"best buddy"?