So Easter was over.  We really did not get to spend a whole lot of time with my mom on the holiday. Scott and I did enjoy an Easter brunch with her at Sunrise the weekend before. The facility always does a nice job entertaining the residents and their families. Wish we could have stayed longer, but Scott had to get to work that day.

And Tom finally had to get to work. He was asked to fly out to California for a project at the last minute the week after Easter Sunday. Work was trying to decide if they should send him to Florida, Texas or California, and LA won. Although he did not spend much time in LA. He was all over southern California. So that left me to run Scott around to school and work.  I was busy working too. A few of our staff members were sick and on vacation, so I came in on the weekend to help out. Meanwhile, I have been fighting colds and stomach bugs myself all spring. I am sure all the running around did not help.

Scott was still attending employee training every Tuesday night, so I needed to give him a ride. He also had a scout trip scheduled for the upcoming weekend that he was looking forward to attending. It is the yearly Bike and Hike scout trip and this year was scheduled at Gettysburg, PA. Scott has ridden around the large park before and really enjoyed it. He also liked the campground since it accommodates horses  and the boys usually tent next to the stables and they were a fun distraction.  There were only a few boys from Scott's patrol camping, and Scott volunteered to cook. However, one of the new boys in the patrol is vegetarian, so Scott had to learn a whole new way of cooking. On Thursday night, he and I went out grocery shopping for vegetarian meatballs and sausages. Scott actually did a good job planning a menu and picking out vegetarian food items for his spaghetti and meatballs and pancakes and sausage. So on Friday I packed up his camping gear and food while he was at school. One of the patrol members mom gave him a ride up to camp. They were only staying one night, so I would have to pick up Scott on Sunday.

In the meantime, Allison was headed home for the weekend. She had a frisbee tournament scheduled at the University of Maryland. She decided to stay with us for the weekend. Usually the girls on the team bunk down in one of the team members's family houses. Allison opted not to volunteer our house for 30 girls. (She knows what fun I had last time we hosted and one of the girls had an asthma attack and had to be taken to the hospital).  But really, I wouldn't have minded, but I needed to get Scott to camp. I did not really have a lot of time for cooking and cleaning for 30 girls. But I was happy to have Allison home for the weekend(even a little bit). On Friday, she stopped in to have dinner with Tyler on her way home. Then she was up early Saturday morning and off playing frisbee.

Sadly, Saturday turned out to be a rotten day for outdoor activities. It rained and poured all day long. In Pennsylvania, Scott's group cooked breakfast under a tarp, and then postponed their bike ride until the afternoon, hoping the rain would let up. In the morning, they toured the visitor center at Gettysburg. Scott has been there before, so nothing really new. After lunch, they went out on their ride, but it was in the cold rain. Scott's group was led by a mom who did not want to ride through the Gettysburg park and did not want to take the boys along the road to access the other trails since it was raining and she was worried they would get run over. Also, a few of the boys in the group were not prepared for bad weather(contrary to the boy scout motto Be Prepared) and they were wet and cold and wanted to quit. So Scott did not enjoy his biking trip as much as he has in the past. At least it stopped raining around meal time, but he burnt his garlic toast, so he was not too happy. And the vegetarian scout decided to sleep in Scott's tent since the other boy had gone home with his mom, and all he did was complain that the tent was dirty inside. Mind you, he had his own tent he could have slept in. Scott does not mind tenting alone with a bit of mud and leaves. So Sunday morning Tom drove up with me to pick up Scott early. Of course the weather was beautiful on Sunday.

Allison's frisbee games were also put on hold on Saturday morning. The teams usually play on the Fraternity lawns, but the groundskeepers did not want people running all over in the rain. So the games had to be moved to another field farther off campus. Some of the team members got lost on their way to the other fields. Then they put the games on hold since it was raining too hard. There really wasn't anything to do while they were waiting, but Allison and a few girls managed to locate a small aviation museum near the campus to walk around in while they waited for the rain to let up. She finally got through her games and headed home for dinner. On Sunday, she was also up early and off to another day of frisbee games before driving back to school. Sadly the girls did not win one single game on either day. But they do love playing. Tom, Scott and I were headed back from Gettysburg and stopped into Frederick, Maryland for a Papa Murphy pizza. The 'bake your own' pizza shop closed by our house and Frederick was the nearest store, 30 mins away. We ordered two to have later. When we got home, Tom packed and was headed back to LA. Scott unpacked all his Boy Scout equipment and started on his homework. I was off to participate in a Girl Scout sing a long at an Earth Day event with our choir in the afternoon. Thank goodness the rain stopped since this was an outdoor event.

Another busy week for the Seitz family.