Our Trip

We spent last weekend down South with Oak's brother and his (Oak's brother's) wife.  It was a great weekend of good conversation, excellent food, and slightly wild children.

Of course we did spend time at the Science Museum since our annual pass in not yet expired.  There are more Science Museum photos on my photography blog.

  They have lots of interesting things for the kids to try out.

And I tried the instruction from my photography class to take pictures from no higher than 3 feet.  My teacher said fashion photographers never take pictures from higher than that.

Doesn't it make Oak look like a fashion model...even if he did move away before I could play with my exposure more.  I've known to get down on eye level with the kids, but had never tried it with adults.

SnapDragon did excellently well on this math puzzle.  I am very proud of his math abilities...if not his hair cut.

We did have Sunflower use the bathroom before playing in the water...first dry trip at the Science Center...though Sunflower did try to take her shirt off because "it is wet!"

Then burritos for lunch, trip to the camera store, and an evening at the house which included some delicious homemade pizza and a movie.

Sunday Breakfast was smoothies and a scrumptious lemon, blueberry coffee cake.  Aunt H is a very good cook.

Are you ready to play yet, Aunt H?  Are you done yet?

Time for the second game of Settlers.  Poor, Uncle B, he just cannot understand the illogical thinking of 7 year olds.  Aunt H crushed them all.

We ended the visit with lunch at the best Vietnamese restaurant ever.  The owner will even make a bowl of plain noodles for those picky little 7 year olds...and grill a chicken breast to go with the noodles for little sister.

This is why my mother refused to watch us eat noodle soup when I was a child, but what is one to do with chop sticks?

Then good-byes in the parking lot though I was so busy taking pictures I didn't realize I'd left my purse.  Uncle B will pick it up and mail it to me...thankfully I have my wallet with my driver's lisence. I would have so much trouble breaking the rules or staying home for this next week.

Then we made a beeline for Oak's sister's church to see our niece get baptized...so we couldn't stop and let me take pictures of the beautiful sky behind us.  That's okay...car mirrors are fun.

Ended the evening celebrating at the church with coaco and snacks.  

Huckleberry even had a chance to show his saxaphone (school rental) to his musically gifted Cousin J.  And I got a chance to practice more night photography...take off the glasses is my tip of the day.

 

Hamlet and the Village People--Monday Rewind

Just so you don't get the impression that my life is all about me and Sunflower, last week was pretty busy for the boys, too.  Each of them had a performance at school, SnapDragon finished his AWANA book (just in time), and Huckleberry was gone Wednesday morning to Friday afternoon for 5th grade camp.  I am glad they didn't make us go camping when I was in 5th grade.  He came home filthy and wet but beaming with happiness.   I do have some pictures from their plays to show you so linking up with Monday Rewind.

On Monday, Huckleberry preformed a 5th grade version of Hamlet 4 times to all the other classes at school.  Large portions of the plot were narrated to make it shorter and easy to understand and some of the plot was changed a little, but all of their actual lines came straight from Shakespeare's Hamlet.  Huckleberry was cast as King Claudius.  

He was originally disappointed he wasn't Hamlet until he realized he had one more line than his friend.  Here he is hiding behind the tapestry.

We missed the end because Sunflower had to use the restroom, but I have it on good authority that the climax was quite exciting.

 

Then on Friday evening, after we picked Huckleberry up from camp, SnapDragon had his 1st grade play.  6 classes (1st and 2nd) said some lines about taking care of the environment and sang 7 songs.  Sweet and short.

This was the wave at all the parents moment to get all the flashes out of the way.  SnapDragon originally had a speaking part, but he switched so he could be a dancer.

He had a lot of fun!