So we come to the end of March and the beginning of April. Lots of activities scheduled this weekend. Easter arrived on April 1st(no April Fools!). All four of us celebrated in Williamsburg with a trip to Busch Gardens. Allison worked extra hard to get her homework done so she could have a few days off to join us. We actually prefer to pick her up in Salisbury and drive down to Virginia along the eastern shore(less traffic). And along our ride we watched a rocket as it was blasting off from the Wallops NASA base! Very cool. We left on Saturday morning after dropping Cookie off to our friends house. We got to Busch Gardens around 3pm so we spent some time on the rides and visiting the shops. That evening we decided to catch a movie and dinner and watched "Ready Player One". The kids were not excited about seeing the film, but surprisingly enjoyed it! Especially all the video game references and characters. On Sunday we headed to church-there is a beautiful Catholic church with an amazing choir which we visited before-just don't like trying to get out of the parking lot! Afterwards we enjoyed opening our Easter baskets(yeah I can have dessert again!). I was pretty good this year, but I did cheat on Pi Day with a slice of Key Lime Mango Pie. And some birthday cake for our friend Beth's celebration. We headed back to the park and still had time to do some shopping in Old Town Williamsburg before meeting up with our neighbors for a Chinese buffet dinner. They had decided to drive down to Busch Gardens for the long weekend as well. They invited us back to their hotel suite for drinks while the kids headed back to our hotel room. We enjoyed gin and tonics while watching the live version of Jesus Christ Superstar on tv.
On Monday we all had off, except Allison had class in the evening. So we did some outlet shopping and then drove back to Salisbury. Allison was happy to buy some new clothes for her Northrop job and used her $50 gift card from the Indy car show. We picked up Gift cards from the Ford dealership after signing up for test drives. Funny thing is in Maryland you don't actually have to test drive the car to get the gift card!
Scott was officially on Spring Break starting on Friday. I started his holiday off with a visit to the doctor to get an immunization shot and a physical. Then on Friday I dragged him off to the mall to visit the photo studio to get his graduation pictures at the JCPenny studio(I had a gift card) and to do some birthday shopping for Tom's birthday and go out to lunch. We had a great time and got alot done, although Scott was not too excited about the photo shoot. I met him at the mall after stopping into my mom's new apartment complex to pick up the keys, visit the room and sign the lease. Scott was mostly happy that he had the day off school and did not have to work. I say a few days because they took away 3 of the students vacation days to make up for snow days. So he was back to school on Weds. Many of the kids were not at school since parents had already made vacation plans months ago. Scott did mind going back to school since he was able to get ahead in a few classes, especially Physics. He even had a quiz that week! All the other kids would have to make up the work. As it is, the classes are all behind because of all the days off due to bad weather.
Allison was just busy with classes and projects with an occasional frisbee practice break. So she really appreciated the break from studying and group projects.
Happy Birthday to Dad Seitz who celebrated his big day on March 29th!
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