October

Cruising- Girls Night Out in the Caribbean! We tried on wedding dresses with Hannah in Charleston and then boarded the ship to the Bahamas. We might not have been the wildest group, but it was fun to be together! 

• Jane and I elbowed out some kids to get our sewing kits for the ship craft time. 
• We spent 2 days wondering if our room's silver cylinder was an ice bucket or trash can. 
• We played putt-putt where you just had to place the ball on the green and wait for the wind to give you a hole-in-one! 
• We enjoyed many rounds of trivia and a night at the piano bar. 
• I personally am still dreaming of the cheddar steak and ale soup. 
• The Blue Iguana was our favorite dive. 
• We bought costumes and then chickened out of the ship party so we just tried a million times to get a good shot of us in the room instead. 
• Conn took us on a walking tour of the Bahamas. The Queen's stairway was cool. (She actually took us on a 5 day walking tour because we followed behind her all week like little ducks.)
• The day on Half Moon Cay was picturesque.
• Our tv was possessed and would come on randomly and make creepy noises. 
• We would not recommend Indiana Jones 5. 
• We had to learn to avoid the spa and its inundation of sales pitches.

Other than those last three, the only bad part was missing my boys and having no contact but all the while somehow still magically receiving Parent Square messages from work. Sheesh.

Rory put this note in my suitcase. I did remember sovneres.

 

 

 

Halloween- Rory had a week-of costume change and landed on being a Power Ranger. The mask kind of creeped me out but that was fine because we ended up holding it for him all night. I had to bribe Silas with sushi to trick-or-treat, but he was a pretty good sport. I loved his costume. Our neighborhood was very dead. We were going to head out at 5:30 but no one else was around so we waited until 6:15 and still were the first. A few more trickled through and we hit one cul-de-sac with neighbor friends. It was fun and enough. By the time we were home to pass out candy we got about 2 doorbell rings.

 

 

Randomness- Rory made his robot self. He now has a cardboard lap top too! He really likes working from the recycle bin. He was the astronaut from Life on Mars by Jon Agee for Book Character Day at school. He thought marching around the halls for the parade was torture. Silas had skate night (Much to Rory's devastation at having a baseball game.) We spend way too many nights at the ballpark. We took family pictures and put up our outdoor projector for a night.