Cool shit happening near me in August

[unicornduke]

The Aurora Games is "a first of its kind sports and entertainment festival featuring world class competition in women’s tennis, gymnastics, basketball, figure skating, ice hockey and beach volleyball. All-star teams made up of athletes who have accounted for over 100 Olympic, World and National championships from The Americas vs The World, will be led by honorary captains Jackie Joyner Kersee and Nadia Comaneci as they compete for the Babe Didrikson Zaharias Trophy."

 

And it's in Albany!!!! 

They've got an ice hockey event! In August! So exciting! Olympians will be there! Like, it looks super fucking awesome! 

They've also got two things the Wed and Thurs before the hockey game that are meet and greets and practices up in Glens Falls, which is fucking awesome. So. I know what I'm doing in August. I might take vacation days. Wow. 

Comments

[graydon]

Gotta say that sounds like an ideal use of vacation days!

[unicornduke]

I mean, August isn't the best time to be taking vacation days but I'm going to slow down on how many I'm taking for the summer because it's becoming busy time at work. It's not like I can't take vacation, but I often cover for other folks and they let me take more days in the farm busy season (fall) instead.

[graydon]

I'd figure August is busy in your line of work, yeah. Good that they're flexible about things; "everything must be scheduled six months in advance" vacation tends to suck rocks.

(My work has a mandatory week off at the start of August. Very different scheduling expectations!)

But, still, really good reason to take vacation, especially if you want to contribute your wee small iota to convincing the organizers to do it again.

[dragonlady7]

August 20-25th. That's a chicken processing week and also the week before my birthday. HMMM maybe I'll go to something too! That's quite cool.

[unicornduke]

The hockey game is that Friday night at 7pm. I'm so fucking pumped, there a ton of awesome athletes going! I haven't even looked at the other stuff lol

[tielan]

oh, that does look very AWESOME! Hope you enjoy!