HOW I SPENT MY LABOR DAY WEEKEND.

I didn't. Well, not the way I had planned anyway. Our family was planning on a trip to Busch Gardens for Labor DAy Weekend. It is usually our last blast for summer vacation. I especially enjoy a day at the water park. However, this year Allison was scheduled to go to school on Friday. In the past, the kids had a 4 day weekend. It changes every year. Scott though managed to get the day off. I found out later it was a mistake. The school officials thought the public school was going to be off and they were trying to keep the schedules the same. Oh well, it worked out for Scott. Since Tom and Scott had the day off, they both headed down to Williamsburg for the weekend with our neighbors.

Allison and I however stayed home. Allison had school and Field Hockey practice afterwards. Then she went out to dinner with the team. On Saturday Allison had an all day Field Hockey tournament. We had to be on the field early in the morning and help set up for a concession stand. I was bringing a big table and donated chip bags as well as working the booth and cleaning up at the end of the day. No sooner did we set up and start our first games that a thunderstorm popped up! The girls were herded into the school and we had to repack all our food items into vans and wait it out. We were delayed by about an hour, but surprisingly we did not get much rain. So before lunch we were back on, just with shortened game times to get all the playing in before 530 pm. And Allison was in the game. I took a break from the concession stand to go watch her play-the game ended 0-0 and Allison stopped 3 plays as goalie. Our team was hosting 3 other schools, so we had a very long break in between our matches. After feeding Allison, I headed home to do some housework and pick up Cookie to catch the last games of the day. We lucked out and did not have any more rain for the day. Allison did not play the last game but Cookie and I had a good time cleaning up the concession stand. Cookie made sure she picked up all the munchie crumbs left behind and loved visiting with the kids. I enjoyed visiting with all the parents too. I was amazed to run into several parents of Resurrection kids just starting high school and playing Field Hockey. I even ran into a mom whose son is a Sr at the high school and now has a freshman daughter who plays field hockey that I haven't seen in at least 10 years. She is the sister of a therapist I used to work with, and Allison and her high school son were in preschool together. We had a lot of fun catching up with family activities.

Sadly I also learned of one of Scott's classmates, a twin boy who was in the hospital recovering from brain surgery. The boy apparently had a sinus infection that became abscessed and they had to do surgery to remove the infection as antibiotics could not clear it up. He had just been taken off the ventilator but was not moving the left side of his body. Sounds like just recently he was moving his arm a bit. We are all praying for the family and Luke's recovery. I signed up to provide the family with a meal and then forwarded the info to the boy's scout troop. I recently heard the troop sent Luke a bunch of get well cards, and were buying restaurant gift cards for take out for the family. I was just so shocked and still am by how quickly things can change. Scott just went to boy scout summer camp with the twins at the end of July. Who knew in a month or so Luke would be having brain surgery. Just makes us appreciate every little thing even more.

Allison and I had to get home from the games so she could clean up and have dinner before heading over to her first Behind the Wheel Driving Instruction. Tom and I were not feeling very comfortable on taking her to another level in our own cars, so off she went for 2 hours SAturday night with Gregs Driving School. This is actually part of her summer classes. Her instructor must have been about 8ft tall and very nice. I don't know how he fit into those tiny cars they use. But Allison reports she did well and visited every high school in Howard County along with many, many traffic circles. Oh yes, and merging too!

On Sunday I had to drop Allison off at work from noon to 4. She was still busy helping with the cleaning of the Sports Club for opening day the following week. Sunday she was on skate cleaning duty. After work I picked her up and we headed over to Matt and Di's house for the last pool party of the year. Matt cooked two roast lambs and everyone brought dessert and side salads to share. Diana belongs to a running group, so mostly she invites a lot of very friendly women. Allison and I enjoyed the pool and hot tub and I brought Cookie along since it had been so hot and humid, I did not want her to spend most of the day and night locked in the house. She enjoyed visiting with all the people and lying under my deck chair(or sitting on my lap). Matt and Di have a dog as well, a Vizsla (kinda like a hound dog), named Winston who loves to swim and thinks Cookie is a chew toy, so I had to keep a close eye on her. We did not stay too late though since we both had to work Labor Day.

Allison also had a lot of homework over the weekend including a few take home tests in math and spanish, and a paper to write in English.

Meanwhile, Scott and Tom were having a wonderful sunny weekend down in Williamsburg. They spent Friday at Busch Gardens and tried out the new Swing Drop ride(Scott and Tom report it was boring). ON Saturday they were at the Water Park all day, and then in the evening headed over to Busch Gardens for a Neil Sedaka concert(CAlendar Girl, Breaking Up is Hard to Do-you remember?). Tom never would have gone, and could not even think of one song he sang, but our neighbors loved it and asked him to join them. Scott went off with their son Alex and rode more rides. Tom (I think) actually enjoyed the concert but could not believe how crazy the women acted(mature women that is). He thought any minute panties were going to fly onto the stage!
Sunday they did some outlet shopping and hit a few more rides in the park before heading back home that night.

ON Labor day Allison was scheduled to work but turns out they did not need her. I decided to work Labor Day since I figured Allison was working, I wasn't going to Busch Gardens, the money is good and it was supposed to rain all day(and it did). The start of a very wet and flooded week.

Looks like I am sending the last of my summer photos. I included a few shots from our ghost tour in Savannah(Tom, Scott, Eric and Allison Seitz) and one of the live oaks growing in the town squares. Joe Namath's house(at one time) as well as a funeral home. Just one of the Haunted Houses on the tour. And the kids with Grandma and Grandpa Bozyk at the Detroit Zoo-of course in front of their famous fountain.