Monday, May 17, 2010

Ray Mickens Camp and Armed Forces Day



















Ray Mickens Signing Jazzy's Pink Football

















Footwork Drill



Stevo Running a Drill at Camp



Saturday we all jumped out of bed and scrambled to get to the northeast so we could find parking for the Ray Mickens Football Camp. Jazz was upset because we didn't stop at McDonalds for breakfast and Stevo looked like he just wanted to stay under the covers for a few more hours. I finally convinced everybody that this would be fun and out the door we went. The camp was well organized despite the fact that they were dealing with more than four hundred kids. Quality drills and good instruction throughout the day. Only complaint was that they only had one water station for the kids. Glad we had brought our own water bottle for Stevo. He was gassed after the fifth station but he never gave up. All the NFL players were patient with the kids and were friendly even after signing autograph after autograph. Ray Mickens is a class act and he deserves a lot of credit for putting on a great camp for the kids in El Paso.



Field was packed for Warm-ups














Jazzy Getting an Autograph


















Stevo and Jazz after camp









We spent the rest of the Saturday at Ft. Bliss and their Armed Forces Day event. This was a cool event for the kids because they got to climb on tanks and other military vehicles. Kids thought this was the coolest jungle gym ever created. Think Stevo and Jazz enjoyed dunking the Marine in the dunking booth the most.

















We had a great time at Ft. Bliss and were glad we decided to spend the rest of the day there.








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