By the way, both kids started classes this past Monday. Scott is very excited to have finally made it to 8th grade. He is looking forward to a busy and fun year. Allison also started her college classes. She had a little issue locating her new math class, but now things are settling in for her. She is taking 5 classes, and one meets right in a classroom in her dorm in the morning. Roll out of bed and right into class! All her meals are in the main dining hall. She loves the food! She has tried out the exercise equipment at the gym and now plans on playing Field Hockey with the Club team. They start practice next week. Two practices a week and games on the weekend through October. She has been enjoying all the opening activities including meeting the author of a required reading book for the incoming freshman class. She managed to get her autograph. She also enjoyed the hypnotist show and received a free DVD for being in the show last weekend! And then there are plenty of free outdoor and indoor movies. She finally was able to see The Great Gatsby as well as some favorite repeats. But she has also been very busy this first week with assignments and quizzes and reading, reading, reading! She does seem to enjoy the whole experience though. And she has some built in friends that she went to high school with to go places and do things together. She is also enjoying the company of all of her suite mates as well(all 10 of them!). And her roommate, Melania.
So we headed out on Friday to Salisbury to pick up Allison and drop some items off at school. We had to drop off her computer printer that we forgot last weekend. But I also found her a picture of the beach to hang up on the big, empty wall(since the campus is only 30 mins from Ocean City, it seemed appropriate). And a few other knick knacks like a stool to climb up onto her bed, an alarm clock, a window valance, paper towel holder and some more photos and frames. I also had her sign off on her Gold Award project evaluation. I had stopped by the nature center last week to pick up her advisor's evaluation to add to her final project summary as well as some photos we had developed at Walgreens. I will try to drop off Allison's notebook to the GS council this week. She has until Sept 30th to get all the paperwork turned in. She even located a GS council at a Volunteer Fair she attended last week that was looking for help with local projects. Allison signed up for their newsletter and promised to keep them in mind if any free time or service projects came up in her classes.We also had to register her car for a parking permit. She will probably be driving back to school after a weekend home in the near future and needed the car registered from the campus police. We tried to take care of that during move in, but the line at the office was out the door all day.
After dropping off her stuff and setting everything up, we headed to lunch and then the long drive down the eastern shore to Williamsburg, VA. We did not get to Busch Gardens until 6pm and discovered that they decided to close the park early that night at 7pm. It was very hot and very crowded, so the kids were happy to jump on a few rides and go to dinner. We met up with our neighbors who were also visiting Busch Gardens that weekend and had dinner at an all you can eat Chinese restaurant and called it a day. On Saturday we headed to the Water Park all day. It was very hot and humid, so the Water Park was a great choice for the day. It also gave Allison some time to relax under an umbrella and read her schoolbooks. And we had a great time on the rides too! Even though the park was busy, we did not have to wait too long to get on the rides. We even enjoyed the diving and acrobatic show while munching on shrimp. That evening we discovered a great new Mexican restaurant and caught a movie. Although I was not pleased with my husband's movie choice for the kids(much too much everything!). A British comedy called The World's End where a town is taken over by robots. Unfortunately the humor was very adult and I would have preferred the kids see an abridged version. We survived the movie and called it a night. On Sunday morning we were off to Busch Gardens. We hit all the big rides before the park got very crowded and left around 3pm. Sadly the new owners did away with the year end fun concerts each night. Instead, they had a Gospel Concert on Sunday night only with a group called The Casting Crowns. Not sure how many people were attending, but you needed to pick up a "free" ticket before the show. We did not plan on attending. Instead we thought we'd stop into the outlet mall and pick up some new tennis shoes for SCott(he won't stop growing). We could not believe how crowded the outlet mall was-parking was limited. We managed to find a parking spot and pick up some shoes for Scott before calling it quits. We stopped in for a late lunch at Buffalo Wild Wings and then headed back to the EAstern shore to drop Allison off at school. When we got back to her University, we stopped for dinner at Sonic burger(the drive in restaurant). They had milk shakes half off. We all enjoyed chili and Chicago hot dogs and milk shakes before saying goodbye to Allison. Before we left the parking lot of the restaurant however, a group of college kids asked Tom to give them a jump with my van. Tom had to show them how to hook up the cables. We did not get home until late, but traffic was pretty light the whole way there and back. Not so today with the 9 mile back up at the Bay Bridge. Speaking of the bridge, Tom spent most of the weekend trying to navigate the MVA website to reregister our EZPass to my current van since it did not work traveling across the bridge. He is trying to avoid getting a ticket!
On Labor Day, Scott and Tom were at home but I headed to work(double pay!). Scott was busy cutting the lawn and doing dishes to pay off a new video game. He also had to study for an upcoming math test and social studies test this week. Here we go again! Tom was busy trying to put his car antenna back together again after it got ripped off in the local gas station car wash!
Scott was also busy last week earning the next rank in Boy Scouts. He is now an official Star Scout. Just one more rank to go before he can work on his Eagle project. Plus the Eagle required badges. He recently signed up for a Chemistry badge that he will be working on at the end of the month at a military base in the area although it is not a required badge(it just looks cool!). He did finish one of the Eagle badges but needs to review with the badge counselor for Citizenship in the World. And I keep after him to read his book on turtles so he can finish up the Pet Care badge(while we still have some pets!).
I had a short work week last week as I spent one day at an OT class on Low Vision. I was hoping to get all my errands run afterwards in order to leave early for Williamsburg on Friday morning. However, Tom booked an appointment at the house with a notary to sign all the paperwork to refinance the house. We had to go through 140 pages with multiple signatures! And this was after Tom completed extensive online computer signatures! We were at it for 1.5 hours Thursday night. It did not leave me with much energy to go shopping afterwards, and Cookie was begging to go for a walk. And I had plenty of laundry to do. So I had to run my errands on Friday morning which set our schedule back some.
But overall it was a very good first week of school and a good holiday break!
A big shout out for a Happy Birthday Today for Dan and Dave Bozyk! And a huge Congratulations to cousin Eric and his fiance Sarah as he just proposed this past weekend and she said YES! How wonderful! The Baltimore Seitz clan may be heading out to Wisconsin next summer with a bypass to Indy for a wedding!
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