Hardy Adventures

On Thursday night on TNT one of the greatest blowouts in the history of the NBA occured in Boston, MA. The New York Knicks were playing at the Celtics. I had been at Southern officiating Volleyball and playing tennis for 3 hours and when I came home and turned on the game to check the score, I was shocked to see that it was 82-39 in favor of the Celtics!!

Here the score was 93-43 in the 4th quarter with 7:09 left to play!! The final score was 104-59, and thanks to a buzzer-beating half quart 3 point shot by the Knicks, they narrowly avoided their lowest point total ever, which remains at 58. The 59 points scored by the Knicks are good for the 2nd lowest point total in the shot clock era!! The lowest I believe was 56 put up by the Utah Jazz in Game 4 of the 1998 NBA Finals against Jordan, Pippen, Rodman and the Chicago Bulls.
The lead had now ballooned to 52 points for Boston!! In other sports new, Brett Favre injured his left arm in the 2nd quarter at Texas Stadium on Thursday night. Aaron Rodgers filled in and did a solid job, but the Dallas Cowboys fought out the 37-27 win. So now the Packers record is at 10-2 while the Cowboys improved to 11-1. With Favre playing this well this year at the age of 38, he has proved a lot of the doubters wrong.
On Friday, November 30, we took the entire student body of Hardy Elementary to the Tivoly to see the Singing Christmas Tree. It was an adventure for sure with 630+ students to watch. But the kids were amazingly well behaved. I rode the Kindergarten bus, where the noise level on the way there and back could best be described as the roar after the Toronto Blue Jays won the 1993 World Series in Sky Dome for about 25 total minutes!!
Hardy took the entire balcony and I snapped out my camera and started taking photos. I don't think flash photography was allowed, so I captured 3 video clips and got a few good pictures.
The large book on the left of the tree and Chattanooga Boys Choir would display the country that was being highlighted. The Choir sang songs in the native languages of various countries and continents and did a good job. The 4th grade boys I was supervising stayed awake for most of the show and so did I despite the comfortable chairs and warm temperature!

The finale was impressive with the entire crew on stage. There were 130 choir members and a few other impressive stats on the make up of the tree. I'll have to include those in a later blog. The field trip was a nice change but stressful and tiring making sure we didn't lose any students.