This week, Margie's life was overtaken by tech week (called "hell week" for a reason). The end result, however, was a very successful weekend of One Acts. We got rave reviews and are excited to take our first place winner to the regional competition next week.
Margie also stayed busy by helping out in John's classroom with the worms for two more days. The first day we studied and compared habitat preferences. Did the worms prefer soil or sand? Soil. Did they prefer dry or moist soil? Moist. The second day, we performed some measurements. The longest worm was 11 inches! (Although that's nothing compared to the world record. The largest worm ever recorded was 11 FEET long!) After we measured them we released them into the wild so they can benefit all the plants around the school.
In Lyn's classroom, they are learning about butterflies. They started with caterpillars, watched them spin their cocoons, and now there are some real butterflies in their classroom habitat. Lyn says it's not much of a habitat--just two cardboard circles with netting around them and two sponges filled with sugar water. But they seem to be thriving.
On Saturday, in addition to the play, Dan and Lyn had the opportunity to attend a church Daddy-Daughter Dinner. It was a carnival theme. When they walked in the door, there was a big painted backdop with a piano bench in front of it. They sat on the bench and got their picture taken.
Next to the bench was a woman with a jar of candy--they had to guess how many pieces were in it. Some lucky couple won the whole jar!
When they walked in the door, they saw some tables with supplies and a bounce house. They decorated frames for their pictures (which they got copies of at church this morning), and then they had dinner. For dinner there was hot dogs (which Lyn couldn't eat) and pasta salad and carrots and nachos with cheese. There was also cotton candy freshly made onsite in the cotton candy machine! On the table was popcorn and Old Dominion root beer (one of Dan's favorites!).
They also had fun playing games like "horse" racing, ring toss, and bean bag tic tac toe. They even had a bounce house, INSIDE the church, as well as a clown making balloon animals and flowers.
There was even a donut eating contest where a pair of two people had to eat donuts off a string without using their hands, as well as a water squirt game, neither of which Dan and Lyn participated in because they didn't want to get too messy before Dan had to head to the theatre for closing night.
For each of the games, people won tickets, which they could redeem for all sorts of prizes. Unfortunately, Lyn had to leave before ticket time, but she still managed to make it home with a giant pixie stick, a ring sucker, a little animal toy, stickers, and a bubble making ice cream cone.
They had a great time!
After the big party, Dan dropped Lyn off with the sitter (John was already with her) and headed over to the theatre for closing night. After strike, Dan and Margie tried to find the closing night party, but couldn't find it in the dark and pouring down rain, so we just came home.
Today was church, of course, then Margie and Lyn had choir practice. After that, they headed over to our favorite summertime hangout, Pohick Bay (aka Pirate's Cove), to pick up pre-season discounted passes. This year we got "golden" passes, which are good at all regional parks--we're going to have a fun summer exploring!
Oh, and we certainly can't forget the most important thing that happened this week--a new addition to our family!
On Tuesday Margie arrived home late from rehearsal to find a cute little sea otter had taken up residence (a belated Mother's Day present from her mom via the World Wildlife Fund). She fell in love with him instantly and has named him Bernie (for no apparent reason other than it just seems like it should be his name). Look for Bernie's own adventures coming soon!
Well, that's it for the Remmers family. Hope you all had a great week and are looking forward to summer--it's just around the corner! :o)
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