Day 155: Thursday... day 4 of hockey camp. I got up late... too much working on photo stuff into the wee hours of the morning. Grabbed a shower, fed the boy and headed out the door to Timmins... We got there in time to get some more pics of the Atoms playing before Lawson had to get ready to go on the ice... it takes about as long for the Zamboni to clean the ice as it does for him to get his gear on so that's good. I continued to take photo through out his session, recorded some video... the practices are getting a little better but it's still not the same without Nick here, his stuff was out there in left field, fun stuff that other coaches don't teach the kids. It was unique and what Lawson was looking forward to... but like I said, just good to get back on the ice. As they start to expect more out of the boy he keeps stepping up his game. After one set he got a round of applause from the rest of the goalies watching and the goalie coach came over and let me know that he was making "Some Sick Glove Saves" and that he was... who knew a little kid could stretch that far... he was baiting the shooters with an opening on the trapper size and waiting for the shots so he could just snag them out of the air... I even saw a few windmills in there, like Pete Townshend... wait, wrong windmill. LOL They ended the day with a little game where the players lined up on three chosen goalies and tried to make it in for a shot on net while the coaches lobbed go-kart tires at the kids... it was pretty funny... but at the end of it all Lawson's net had the fewest pucks in it by a long shot... and that's playing with kids that are 4 years older than him. When he got off the ice he manned one of the cameras and we got a few more shots of the older players. Can't call that group kids, sure it's just the next group up from what Lawson was playing but some of them are 6' 4" and then add the height of the skates in there... I'm looking up at them as they walk by like I'm looking at the giraffes at the zoo. Not kids. We head home and I got started on the photo mess early in hopes of getting some sleep tonight... Heather gets home, hot and tired, enjoyed a little sit down beside the air-conditioner before baking us some buns for dinner... samiches... you know it's hard to think you could miss eating samiches but it's possible. Just not something we normally eat... but then again anything not poultry related this week is out of the norm. Anyway we ate, made Lawson some perogies to eat while he played video games with his friends. And we watch some shit on the idiot box.... Heather eventually fell to sleep and then I finished off the photos I had started working on earlier in the evening. Oh, and they gave the boy a new Jersey...

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