Thursday, May 30, 2024
8th Grade "Graduation"
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Last Day of 8th Grade
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
8th Grade Dance
Thursday, May 23, 2024
Asheville for Dinos
For wacky reasons (like lyrics in Wagon Wheel) I've always felt the need to at least stop in Johnson City, TN. Turns out it was a lovely little ways past Asheville back towards C'ville, so we spent the night in a hotel there and I can now check that bit of silliness off my bucket list. Even better though, is the incredibly quaint and SUPER well executed backyard museum (I believe it's actually called "Backyard Terrors Dinosaur Park") in neaby Bluff City, TN. We would have probably spent HOURS here if the light rain that was falling when we arrived remained the dominant weather - instead we ended up in a thunderstorm monsoon - and that curtailed our wanderings. Would love to stop in again if we're in the area because it's 100% worth a visit.
Other miscellaneous shenanigans included car ride hilarity based on snack choices (apparently we love a good meat stick?), a randomly delicious mall-type breakfast place, lots of fun car games, a very chill EV-style road trip there, and a hella long detour through west virginia/virginia (2 or 3 border crossings = 2 or 3 singings of Country Roads) and skirting comparatively close to CHM on the way back. While EVERYONE wanted to go visit, we stayed the course b/c 1) Ivy's an EV and WV is not a plentifully charge-ful state and 2) we would be back at camp for realsies in just over a week so alas, no sidequests this time. Props to Z on baller navigation skillz getting us over, around and through the back roads so we could make progress when I-81 was shut BOTH WAYS.
Saturday, May 18, 2024
Mothman!
Sunday, May 12, 2024
Spring Things
- Eat dinner in a soccer uniform because we play a lot of soccer
- Also just straight up play soccer
- Grow (and harvest, and EAT) strawberries
- Make silly faces