Today we celebrated the birth of our home nation with “Field Day” and a picnic full of hamburgers, guacamole, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches! Yummm….. peanut butter. We were divided into teams and had to pick a team color, make a poster, come up with a cheer, etc. etc. My team named themselves the “Chupa Cabras” Spanish for goat suckers. Don’t ask…. We got really into it; we even went for the full outfits… check out some of the photos.
We played the following games: wheelbarrow race, water balloon toss, dodgeball, capture the flag, pass the orange, and we had a relay race. I don’t think my team came in first in any of the events but I think we had the most fun.
Today was also Cass’s 21st birthday so we celebrated with a surprise party at her house planned by Wes (her husband). It was a lot of fun; they even had a campfire out back. I found a bowl of candies that were chocolate covered marshmallows. Count on me to be the one to decide to put them on sticks and roast them in the campfire! Yummmm, it was like a s’more without the gram cracker but much better because the chocolate actually melted.
It was a little sad to not be able to celebrate the 4th at the lake this year so I thought I’d try to call home and say hi to everyone. (The phone I have to use since I don’t have one is at Cass and Wess’s house anyway so it was easy since I was already there). Of course my family wasn’t home so I had to leave a message. My mom didn’t even answer her cell phone and I didn’t know anyone else’s off the top of my head. I decided to get them back for being out watching the fireworks by leaving them messages in Spanish. Yeah – take that! In the end I tried back one more time and they were home so I got a chance to say hi. It was practically impossible to hear though with a poor connection and a party going on in the background.
We played the following games: wheelbarrow race, water balloon toss, dodgeball, capture the flag, pass the orange, and we had a relay race. I don’t think my team came in first in any of the events but I think we had the most fun.
Today was also Cass’s 21st birthday so we celebrated with a surprise party at her house planned by Wes (her husband). It was a lot of fun; they even had a campfire out back. I found a bowl of candies that were chocolate covered marshmallows. Count on me to be the one to decide to put them on sticks and roast them in the campfire! Yummmm, it was like a s’more without the gram cracker but much better because the chocolate actually melted.
It was a little sad to not be able to celebrate the 4th at the lake this year so I thought I’d try to call home and say hi to everyone. (The phone I have to use since I don’t have one is at Cass and Wess’s house anyway so it was easy since I was already there). Of course my family wasn’t home so I had to leave a message. My mom didn’t even answer her cell phone and I didn’t know anyone else’s off the top of my head. I decided to get them back for being out watching the fireworks by leaving them messages in Spanish. Yeah – take that! In the end I tried back one more time and they were home so I got a chance to say hi. It was practically impossible to hear though with a poor connection and a party going on in the background.
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