Boston Sports Happiness!

Dear Sonia,

I don't want to forget to tell you about how great Boston sports was the weekend you were born. On April 19, around the time your mom really started to have a killer time getting you out, the Red Sox beat the Rangers. They beat them again on Sunday night. After not winning a World Series for 86 years due to a horrible curse (which I'll teach you all about), they won in 2004 and again last year in 2007! We have high hopes for them again this year, and they are already number 1 in the American League!

Also on Saturday night, the Bruins beat the Canadiens in Game 6 of the first round of playoffs, sending them back to Montreal for Game 7, which is tonight. Your Uncle S. says the Bruins suck, which I countered with the fact that they are in the playoffs, and he said "Okay, they suck less than they usually suck."

And to round it all out, the Celtics played Game 1 of the first round of NBA playoffs Sunday night and they won too!

Today is Patriot's Day, a Massachusetts holiday which commemorates the Battle of Lexington & Concord in the Revolutionary War. It is also Marathon Monday, the day of the Boston Marathon, arguably the most difficult marathon in the U.S. We have perfect weather for it, cloudy and only about 50ish degrees. Someday you can come here for the Marathon and we'll watch it together. It begins 26 miles outside of the city in Hopkinton and the runners run into Boston. I thought all Marathons were like that until graduate school, when I found out the Marine Corps Marathon in D.C. is just run all around the city. I thought that was pretty silly at the time, until I found out it's Boston that's weird!

You may be a Texan, but it's my job to make sure you remain connected to Boston. You should definitely know what happened here on the weekend that you were born. We had a great weekend in sports!

Love,

Auntie K