We started the week out by spending a lovely Father's Day on the water. My husband's request for Father's Day was for all of us to go fishing with him -and actually fish. We gave it our best shot, but we didn't catch anything, because the wind was blowing from the east, and you know the saying - "East blow, don't go." Never heard that before? Oh, well, you know it now. But no matter, we had a good time anyway. We anchored the boat at an island where we had lunch. The girls swam a bit (the water was actually like bathwater in the shallows!) and we collected sea water to bring home and observe under the microscope. We made a makeshift plankton net from the sheer curtains I took down last week and tried to collect plankton with that. I think we'll have to try that again another time. We did find some cool stuff in there, though:
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| A baby crab |
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| Seaweed |
And this one looks familiar, only this is the salt water version:
Tonight, the girls have their piano/trumpet recital, so they have been practicing lots for that. Wednesday morning, Turtlegirl's trumpet teacher came for a last pre-recital lesson, then we went to the park for Park Day from 10-12. Then both girls needed to be at the local nature center for a volunteer training session at 1:00. Not to mention the usual swim practice at 5:30. Phew! Thursday gave us a relaxing day at home, at least until swim practice late in the day.
Today we had an end-of-year picnic with some homeschool friends, the same day as my husband's company picnic. The girls and I went to the homeschool picnic (after bringing one daughter to the doctor for pink eye), and he went to his company picnic. Now we're home relaxing before we head back out for the recital this evening.
I think next week will be quieter...
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