So I had the house all to myself last weekend. Tom and Scott headed off to Boston, MA for a long weekend to enjoy a Video Gaming Convention/PAX(Penny Arcade Expo). Scott's friends were attending and invited Scott along. They obtained tickets, but were not able to provide assist with transportation or a hotel. Most of the hotels were booked, and he was only able to obtain a ticket for Friday and Sunday admission. The tickets for Saturday and 3 Day Passes were already sold out. And this was all done last year! So Tom volunteered to go along and book a hotel room for both of them. Tom also had some free airline miles to use up, so they decided to fly(so much quicker than driving too). The convention is held 5 times a year all across the country in 5 different locations. So it turned out to be a kind of overdue Spring Break trip for Scott as well as making up for his cancelled choir trip to Chicago. Sounds like the two had a great time-both at the convention and touring Boston. Scott does not remember too much from our time living in Boston since he was just a toddler. So if they weren't at the convention trying out all sorts of new video games and hanging out with the UTube personalities, they were out and about the city. They stopped into an Open House at MIT while Tom restocked his MIT shirts. They also visited Faneuil Hall/Market for some clam chowder downtown and spent most of the day at the Science museum. Scott had a blast making a small boat in an engineering challenge and catching the indoor lightning show. I had free admission for them both with our Baltimore Zoo passes.

Just before he left, Scott turned in his NHS application. (He was the first one!) He won't hear back until next Fall. He also had a lot of tests to study for including an all day English standardized test that involved writing a paper. It actually rolled over into Friday, so he will have to finish the makeup test in May. He also squeezed in his guitar lesson and video game club meeting, plus boy scouts. He had some time to meet with his Eagle project counselor and start the paperwork. He has been working on a design and cost estimate for raised wheelchair accessible garden planters for my nursing home.

Allison caught up with me on Skype briefly. I was planning on visiting her Friday night. Salisbury University was hosting the Relay for Life cancer walk/run over the weekend, but Allison was busy hosting an end of the season Frisbee party. I had wanted to go out and support one of Allison's classmates and my previous girl scout whose mom recently died from ovarian cancer. Another fellow Girl Scout leader.I also thought it would have been cool if the team could have participated in the walk. But scheduling just did not work out. The Frisbee girls did not make the Finals Tournaments, but that was not such a terrible thing. It gives Allison more time to study and wrap up projects as she nears the end of her semester, scheduled for May 13th. Looks like she also finalized the paperwork for a summer internship at the Baltimore Chemical company managing accounts receivable. (I know she is going to miss Girl Scout camp!). But we are so excited she was able to find a position as it is a business school requirement.

So I had a whole weekend to schedule events for myself! I ended up spending the first day, Friday at the medical office. Seems like I neglected to make my own physical exams last year when I was busy running my parents around to their appointments. So my doctor decided to squeeze everything in on Friday.  I did a bit of running back and forth to the medical office. It wore me out. I spent the rest of the day on the couch. Not what I had planned, but necessary. On Saturday I thought I would take my mom out to a matinee to catch the Jungle Book movie. Instead, my co worker Anne asked me to join her for dinner and a movie. We ended up at the matinee to see God is Not Dead 2. It featured one of the christian rock bands that we saw at the concert in Baltimore. It basically revolves around a court case based on previous issues where religion is brought into question in the classroom setting. In this case, a teacher spoke about Jesus and his teachings in her AP History class when a student asked how He related to Ghandi or Martin Luther King. It was interesting. Afterwards we went out for crab cakes. On Sunday I started the day off singing with the Girl Scout choir at the yearly GS Earth Day Outdoor Event. The scouts set up different environmental booths at a local day camp to teach the girls about their environment in honor of Earth Day. Our GS choir usually puts on a singing seminar to teach troops some of the traditional campfire songs. Fortunately is a chilly but sunny day for standing out in the woods. The sight of the Day Camp has been slowly shrinking,  being surrounded by lots of housing. So it is strange to see so much wildlife left in one little area-including a Great Horned Owl's nest complete with a baby chick(the size of a full grown adult!). One of the vendors had a telescope so you could look up into the tree at the nest on a platform that the scout naturalist mounted. I figured all owls nested in trees and only came out at night. I guess not.  Turns out, we have a Great Horned Owl living in the woods near our house too. I can hear him hooting in the woods all the time. After the event, I picked up my mom so we could do some grocery shopping and then grill out for dinner at our house. So not a very exciting weekend, but relaxing. The weather was a bit rainy most days so I did not get much yard work done. Instead I spent some time indoors organizing our garage attic. I would have squeezed in some dog walking as well but it looks like I already wore Cookie out on walks when the weather turned nice. She was limping all weekend, so I made her rest as was previously recommended. Which means I had to rest cause she follows me all over the house!







PAX convention in Boston(AKA Lots of guys with no lives! Or too much extra time on their hands like my two guys.)

Scott playing a virtual reality video game

Chowder at the Barking Crab(lots of Brady shirts:before he was busted again for deflategate)

Spring has definitely arrived! The weather has been so much nicer than the previous  weekend with lots more sun and much warmer. That means more grass cutting and weed pulling. Tom was out cutting the lawn last weekend(he got brave). At least he was able to breathe. Thank goodness for Zyrtec. I was busy filling my bird feeders. I was so excited to see that the bluebirds returned to their nesting box in our backyard. I couldn't help myself and I peeked inside. Lots of little blue eggs! I am sure they will enjoy the meal worms I put in the bird feeder especially for them.

It was a nice weekend to be outside, but Allison could have done without the pollen! She came home to participate in an Ultimate Frisbee Tournament at Uof Maryland last Saturday and Sunday. With all that running around outside on the grass she was ready for her inhaler by Sunday afternoon. They won a few games and lost a few games and had fun!  I was just happy to have Allison at home for the weekend.

On Friday afternoon I took my mom over to the hairdresser. When Allison pulled into the driveway, we all picked up my mom and headed out to dinner. We decided to take the kids to the Pizza place we ate at last weekend. It is right across the street from Scott's workplace. He switched his work night to Friday so he could go to Hershey Park on Saturday with a school friend. We stopped into dinner Friday night and then dropped Scott off to work and Mom back to her apartment before heading home. We finished off the day by watching the new Star Wars movie at home on DVD before picking up Scott from work.  I had put in a long day starting off with an early visit to mom's broker to fill out more paperwork(what fun). Then I had my swim class and lots of errands to run before I picked up my mom in the afternoon.

Everyone was up early on Saturday morning. Allison had an early start for her Frisbee tournament and Scott headed out with his friend Matt and family to Hershey for the day. When Allison returned home that afternoon, Tom was out the door and headed up to Hershey also for a hockey game with his old work friend John. He enjoys watching the Hershey Bears play(and it is a lot cheaper than going to a Washington Capitals game). Tom had a serious need to catch some live hockey with the playoffs going on. He was also happy that the Hershey Bears won. Scott also got home late that evening from a fun filled day. He really enjoys his new friend and their family-5 kids total and the family is from England. (and their mom talks very fast and has a very strong british accent). It is fun just to listen to her talk! Their Dad had discount tickets to the amusement park from his work place, so Matt asked to take Scott along. Scott loves having a friend that enjoys the coasters as much as he does! Meanwhile, Allison and I decided to have a girl's night out and we enjoyed dinner at Qdoba and then went to see Disney's new movie, "The Jungle Book". We really loved the movie. There were lots of kids at the movie and it was packed. I thought it was a bit intense for the little ones as it seemed to follow the original story line more closely than the cartoon version. Of course they had to throw in a few of the songs! I will have to take my mom to see it next weekend. I was disappointed that I could not see the movie for free during the week with my Baltimore zoo pass. We had other plans that night.

On Sunday morning, Allison was up early and out the door for her last day of Frisbee. She usually heads back to school afterwards. She still had plenty of homework to do and is busy with group projects. Scott spent most of the day busy studying for upcoming tests. He thought he would have a break after finishing up his 3rd semester, but no such luck. On Sunday night I had to run him over to the LifeTime Fitness pool for his Boy Scout swim test. He plans on doing some summer trips with scouts this year that involved water, so the boys have to know how to swim. And Scott can sure swim. Too bad our high schools don't have swim teams. On Monday night he came home with a letter from his choir director. The kids were putting on a dinner buffet/cabaret show. The kids signed up to perform if they wished, but if you were not entertaining, then you were serving dinner. So Scott came home with a letter on Monday stating he needed to show up Weds night in khaki pants and shirt and tie. Great. He does not own a pair of khaki pants. So off to shopping we went Monday night. And we parents were asked to bring food for the buffet, so I picked up a few large pizzas from Sam's club on Tuesday night.

On Weds I rushed Scott over to school. They set up small stages in the cafeteria of the high school, and decorated all the tables. I had a front row seat and really enjoyed all the kid's entertainment. There really are a lot of amazing, talented kids at the school. They sang, played guitars or piano alone or in groups. One girl even played an electric ukelele and sang an Elvis song. And one boy memorized the soliloquy from the new Broadway play "Alexander Hamilton". Amazing. Scott was not completely off the hook. The entire choir got up and sang at the end-one of their songs from the Christmas concert. The kids did a great job, the food was incredible for a pot luck, but it made for a long evening-3 hrs!  Fortunately, Scott's Robotics team had to reschedule their end of the year party. It was scheduled for the next night! Too many activities.

Spring has definitely arrived in Baltimore. We have had gale force winds, thunderstorms, a small tornado, sleet, rain, hail and snow. And that was in just one weekend!  But Scott and I braved the elements and started yardwork anyway. Scott got the backyard mowed and I did the front, along with some thatching and picking up lots of little birch tree branches. And I have the blisters on my hands to prove it. We didn't dare send Tom outside. He has been having a difficult enough time breathing with all his allergies and that is even when he stays indoors. The pollen has begun to collect on the car windows-thick, yellow layers. Even with all the sneezing and coughing, the flowers have been very beautiful this year.  Tom also ran out of available time to get in any fertilizing or aerating of the lawn, so it looks like another year for Chemlawn. Tom is just too busy traveling, writing papers for class, and oh yes, working.

I did manage to sneak away to Salisbury U for a Girl's Weekend with Allison and her roommates. Allison was inducted into the Business National Honor Society, Beta Gamma Sigma this weekend.  She and 49 other students received lifetime memberships and pins in a small ceremony for their exemplary grades in business school, followed by a buffet dinner at the Perdue Business school. The event was very nice, the food was great and Allison's friend Tyler joined us. Tom opted to stay home with Scott to give him a ride to work. So I decided to spend the night. After our ceremony and dinner, we girls watched My Big Fat Greek Wedding 1 on DVD at the condo. Allison had never seen it and her roomy, Jen had a copy. We decided to go catch My BFG Wedding 2 at the movie theater on Saturday. I spent the night with Allison and in the morning we all went over for brunch at their campus dining hall. Afterwards, Allison and I did some shopping at Sams Club and then headed over to the movie with  Jen. We really enjoyed the second movie about as much as the first. After refilling the popcorn bucket for Allison, I headed home(in a small snowstorm). Allison had to get back to studying. At least she did not have any frisbee games last weekend. Overall, it was a very enjoyable weekend. Even the boys managed to squeeze in a movie-the 1st person movie, Hardcore Henry. They hated it. Not surprising.

Scott was just happy to have a small break last weekend. He finished up his 3rd school semester with a half day last Friday. All his teachers managed to schedule tests, quizzes and papers due that day. So he spent most of last week home studying and writing. He had to skip Boy Scouts to study for tests and get all his homework done. At least he had already scheduled a guest speaker. And he did get to his Video Club and guitar lesson. Unfortunately, his robotics team did not make the playoffs. They took a chance this year and built a huge robot which sadly could not keep up with the points that the little robots were earning. Scott was disappointed as he was looking forward to attending the finals at Uof Maryland. He loved visiting all the vendor booths and getting free stuff from video and computer companies. Maybe next year.

On Sunday, our family enjoyed Brunch with Mom Bozyk at her apt. The facility was hosting Spring Brunch(free of charge). We also took Mom B out to dinner that night at a new pizza place after dropping Scott off to work. The pizza place was across the street from Scott's sports complex, so we thought it looked interesting and wanted to try it out. It is a chain restaurant located at the beaches in Maryland and Delaware. It seemed pretty good.

I also enjoyed an evening with my mom during the week. I was invited to join the Activity Coordinator at mom's apt complex and a few staff members along with 12 residents to attend a free evening at the National Aquarium in downtown Baltimore. We had a wonderful time on a personally guided tour through some of the fish tanks and touch tanks in the aquarium. And it was a beautiful evening to enjoy being downtown. The residents all seemed to have a great time, including myself. The aquarium opens its doors to special interest groups a few times a year for no charge, including group homes, senior apts, and handicap kids. There were lots of wheelchairs and guide dogs along with our group. I felt right at home. I also helped to keep an eye out for the residents and assist with bathroom breaks, passing out snacks and loading and unloading the van. I had to earn my keep! So nothing new for me. And my mom also had a wonderful time! I just wish she had gone to the painting class they offered at her place the day before. At least there will be other opportunities to participate in that activity. Mostly I have been keeping my mom busy by adding an extra trip during the week o the Sr Center. They have a 4 hr program that they offer for Seniors with memory problems. Unfortunately, my mom decided that twice a week was too much, and she started turning away the drivers when they came to pick her up! So looks like we will drop back to once a week. I really think the program does her good, especially the exercise classes. She says she can do all that back at the apt(but she doesn't!). Just like missing the painting class. She says she is "too busy"! She does go out on the weekly lunch outings to different restaurants. And she is still really missing my Dad. So I try to keep her extra busy!

Spring has Sprung in Baltimore. And so has the Birthdays! A Huge 80th  Birthday Hurray to Dad Seitz! He celebrated his Big Day on March 29th. Last weekend we decided to start celebrating Tom's birthday a few days earlier. His official birthday was Monday, April 4th. We thought a trip to Busch Gardens was in order to help him celebrate. We also thought it was a great way to wrap up Scott's Spring Break.

Scott really did not do anything terribly special for Spring Break. Tom and I both had to work-so did Scott. We had to run him into work while school was out on Tues and Thurs. Tom and I both took turns leaving work to drive him there and pick him up in the afternoon. So since Scott had Friday and Saturday off, we decided a trip to Busch Gardens was in order. And Allison had a break from frisbee, so we thought it would be a good idea to have her come with us.  Tom also got his homework done early to give him some free time. He was worn out from spending last week in Alexandria at class and then trying to catch up with his work load. He was even more dumbfounded to find out that one of his classmates was dropped from the program after plagiarizing his paper! Apparently some of the students complain that they just don't have enough time to work and go to school at the same time and they get desperate. This student copied multiple paragraphs from fellow student's papers and put together her own paper. They all have access to each other's paper's online before turning them into the professor. Tom said she did not even bother changing the wording. Oh well.

Tom had to work on Friday, so Scott and I picked him up from work when he got off after dropping Cookie off to our neighbors  and we headed to Salisbury U to pick up Allison. Since Tom worked so late, we arrived rather late and decided to spend the night at a local hotel. We also thought it was a good idea to start celebrating Tom's birthday with dinner out. Allison and her roommate Jen joined us at Texas Roadhouse for steak dinners. I mentioned something about Tom's birthday and the wait staff brought out a saddle on a sawhorse for Tom to ride on while they gave him a big Texas Yeeha! Tom skipped the horsey ride, but got stuck with the big Yeeha anyway. (Too bad we weren't celebrating Mark Seitz's Bday. I am sure Mark would have enjoyed the horsey ride!). We did enjoy the dinner and Allison went home with lots of leftovers(we also filled up on fried pickles and all you can eat peanuts in the shell). I am just sorry I don't have a photo of Tom on the saddle!

On Saturday morning we headed down to Busch Gardens in Virginia. Tom prefers the drive along the Eastern shore to Williamsburg as there is a lot less traffic than driving around DC. But it still takes a bit longer(about 3 hrs from Salisbury). And the drive from our house to Salisbury is about 2.5 hrs. So we did not get to Busch Gardens until noon. We also stopped to have lunch before hand. We were not in a huge rush since the weather was cold and rainy. The bad weather turned out to be a good thing since the park was not crowded when we arrived. And it also started to clear up very quickly and the sun came out. Just in time to catch  a few rides until we stopped in to see Jack Hanna. He has been the spokesperson for the conservation movement at Busch Gardens and Seaworld for the past 17 yrs. He has his own Saturday morning nature show on tv and used to host Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. He also makes lots of appearances with crazy animals on tv shows like The Tonight Show(all the way back to Johnny Carson), Ellen Degeneres, and the Today show. His appearance was on an outside stage so it was great that the weather cleared up. He came out early to pass out autographed photos. We have seen him at Busch Gardens before and he always has very interesting stories to tell and brings out amazing animals. This time he was quite fired up about the recent news concerning Seaworld and their plans for the future of their Killer Whales. Seaworld will no longer be breeding the whales, and will eliminate their Shamu shows. They are even planning on cutting out the merchandise. They can't set their whales free into the ocean since they were all born in captivity and would die.  This was decided recently due to all the pressure from animal rights activists like the PETA group(and maybe the fact that one particular killer whale has actually killed a few of it's trainers).  Jack was rather upset since he feels they are not taking into consideration all the good that places like Seaworld or Busch Gardens does to help protect animals and nature. His point was that animal rights activists want all the animals to return to the wild, but he pointed out that we really don't have much 'wild' left in the world. And most of the animals in captivity were either bred in captivity or injured. Man has had an effect on pretty much all of the world's environment and it will probably not get better. (Here in our own county they keep building houses, townhouses and apt complexes on every little bit of available land. We are currently fighting an extension of our neighborhood with a 300 unit townhouse and single family homes development on a small strip of land along I-70. Houses we can deal with, but townhomes cram in too many people(which leads to too much traffic on narrow farm roads and overcrowding in the schools). Our local schools are already over capacity. They just keep putting up trailers in the back of the schools to accommodate extra kids.) And the wildlife in the area just keeps running out of places to live-our neighborhood is already over run with deer and fox, bunnies, hawks, eagles and squirrels(although it is cool to see all these things in your own backyard).
 In regards to the animals, zoos and parks like Busch Gardens or Seaworld are trying to  help by assisting with wildlife rescues or breeding programs for endangered species. Anyway, Jack was a bit wound up this visit, but he still brought out some amazing animals with some amazing information about each one. Including a cheetah that we saw many years ago in Busch Gardens Tampa . The cheetah was a young orphan and they raised it with a puppy so both would grow up together. The dog keeps the cheetah calm so they can use it during educational presentations. I am sure PETA will eventually complain about this too. Just remember, PETA stands for People Eat Tasty Animals!

Well, the weather turned out so nice that the park began to fill up with college kids on Spring Break by Saturday afternoon. We decided to stay a little longer and then stopped into dinner at a favorite mexican restaurant on the way back to Salsibury to drop off Allison. Again it was quite late when we got to her place, so we decided to spend the night again. That way we enjoyed sleeping in and having breakfast with Allison before driving home. And Scott had to work on Sunday, but not until late in the afternoon. While he was at work, I had time to package up all of Tom's birthday gifts. We decided to enjoy his birthday dinner on Sunday night(another great steak dinner cooked by Scott this time). We topped it off with a new favorite dessert of Tom's, Tiramisu. We also opened his presents early. Mainly he wanted a new laser computer printer. He took a sneak peak at the one Scott and I had already bought him and decided to return it for a model that printed more pages with cheaper cartridges. So he spent Sunday afternoon out shopping and then set up the printer before dinner. I also surprised him with a custom made Star Wars bowling shirt(he is looking forward to wearing it at the Video Game convention that he will be attending with Scott at the end of the month in Boston). And we needed new steak knives to go with our steak dinner. Plus I picked up a remake of the Atari gaming system-plug and play on our existing tv. Should be interesting.

So I think that was a great way to end Scott's Spring break and to celebrate Tom's 53rd birthday.  Scott did not get off so easy on his time off school as he still had to organize the boy scout meeting. Even though his guitar lesson was cancelled, boy scouts never take time off. Scott managed to set up one of the new parent's to come speak about the Sports merit badge. The adult brought in lots of sports equipment and kept the boys busy playing sports all night, like golf, soccer and even rugby! Scott was just happy to hit golf balls during most of the meeting while I was busy with a few other parents running board reviews for advancements. Scott is happy to hand off his job to another scout, but they still wanted him to assist in finding presenters for one more month until the new scout could settle into the job. Scott will be taking time off leadership positions for now to concentrate on his Eagle project and merit badges. He also enjoyed taking time off his video club meeting as well as classwork during Spring Break. However, the Biology teacher gave out homework over break, and I had Scott work on his paper for his National Honor Society application that is due at the end of the month. No rest for the weary.

Jack Hanna-Up Close and Personal with Wild Animals(or are they?)

 This dog and cheetah grew up together and are best friends.

 Don't try this at Home(petting animals that are poky)!

 Scott and Allison enjoy some rides at night

 Happy Birthday Tom!

Happy Easter! Happy Spring!  We enjoyed Easter Sunday at mass at the Cathedral at Charlestown Retirement Community Easter morning with our whole family and my Mom. Afterwards we all went out for Easter Brunch at a local restaurant. The food assortment was wonderful-lots of appetizers-oysters on the half shell, smoked salmon, peel and eat shrimp, ahi tuna, tomatoes and mozzarrella slices, cheese and sliced veggies, crab dip, crab soup, turkey, prime rib, eggs benedict, stuffed french toast, mac and cheese, potato salad, stuffed chicken salad sandwiches, greek salad, breakfast pastries and desserts. Plus our drinks. More food than we could possibly eat. The timing was perfect. Church was at 11 and Brunch was at 1. We were done in plenty of time for Allison to pack up her car(along with her Easter basket and the baskets I made up for her room mates) and head back to school. Easter mass was enjoyable too. We love Fr Leo's services and the cathedral is quite amazing-all in Italian marble and statues, as well as an incredible display of spring flowers. And the music is quite incredible too with the huge pipe organ and small orchestra playing violins and french horns.  And Fr Leo even mentioned MSU in his sermon! He was discussing the idea of hope and mentioned an old football game between Notre Dame and MSU. Of course he was rooting for Notre Dame, and the game ended in a tie(back in the 60s!). It was just fun hearing our school name mentioned at mass! Especially since the MSU basketball season has now ended. Along with Uof Maryland and Uof Michigan and any other team we were interested in! Oh well.

It was also wonderful having Allison return home for the weekend. I really love having her home. I get the added bonus of all her help. She does dishes and laundry and helps prepare dinner. As a matter of fact, Scott and Allison both cooked us dinner on Good Friday. Our last fish dinner of Lent. They prepared salmon with a mustard, maple syrup, garlic and lemon juice topping. Wonderful! (even though it sounds weird). Plus I did not have to cook it!  Especially since I was a bit pooped out from the day's activity

Scott was off school on Good Friday for the start of his Spring Break. He was ready for a break since he spent a day home sick the week before. He had to get himself back to class though since he had a bunch of tests scheduled before going on break. Tom was also busy with school.  He had spent the entire week in Alexandria, Virginia at a school conference. He offered to meet us both in DC at noon to check out the Cherry Blossoms and some of the Smithsonian museums. I drove Scott down to the Union station and we met Tom there for lunch. Afterwards, we decided to walk the National Mall rather than catch the train. I heard enough of trains catching fire, shutting down or being blown up recently, so with all the crowds I decided we could use the exercise. But it is certainly exhausting to walk from the Union Station all the way to the Jefferson Memorial and back. Plus a jaunt around the Natural History museum. We wanted to visit the Air and Space Museum. Allison and her room mate Jen had just visited the museums a week before during their spring break. But now more schools were off on vacation  and the people came to DC by the busloads. All the museums were crowded. There were very long lines outside all the buildings. They are also tearing up the lawn on the Mall around the memorials and in front of the Capitol, so there is not much space to move around since everything is fenced off. They are busy putting in a new irrigation system and lawn. We waited to the end of the day to get in to one of the museums and only made it in the Natural History museum. And we strolled through the Modern Art building briefly before it closed down.  Before that, we enjoyed the day walking around all the beautiful cherry tree blossoms on the tidal basin while negotiating all the crowds. And I am sure it only got worse as the weekend went on being the Easter Holiday along with having hit the prime bloom time for the trees and the start of the Cherry Blossom festival.

I was also busy on Saturday running Cookie in for her spring grooming, along with a hair cut for Scott and my mother. Allison spent the entire day at an Ultimate Frisbee tournament at Towson University. After all the hair appointments,  Scott, Mom and I went out to lunch before Scott had to head to work. However, one of Scott's coworkers took his shift so our family all went out to see the Batman vs Superman movie after dinner and dropping off mom. I think Eric S. said it best-it was an ok movie, a bit slow and it did not make a whole lot of sense why Batman and Lex Luther hated Superman so much. But we all enjoyed going out to the movies together and eating our big bucket of popcorn!

Scott is looking forward to his break from school and guitar lessons. Not much of a break beforehand. He and I enjoyed dinner and an awards ceremony at his Boy Scout Court of Honor ceremony last WEds. Tom was off to school. Scott received a medal for completing an extensive amount of volunteer hours helping out the boy scouts last year(mainly for the week he spent volunteering at cub scout camp) as well as a medal for an extended amount of hours spent camping last year and a badge in Mining. He is just happy to be winding down his job as assistant patrol leader and will be happy to just concentrate on badges and his Eagle scout project.