Spring Break Recap

The same person that steals my weekends has done it again and stolen spring break!  I cannot believe how fast the week went.  I work with the junior highers at church and will be on a junior high event, Friday and Saturday, (Sunday will be spent recuperating from this event:-)  so this really is the last few hours of my break....

1)  I went to Canada...just Vancouver but it was beautiful and sunny and entertaining.

2)  Started volleyball practice with my 4th/5th grade team.  (The 6th/7th/8th grade practices start next week)  Yes, I might be a little crazy....

3)  Of course, I read...a lot.  My school is in the middle of, Books & Beyond.  For every five hours of reading students progress through 10 levels.  Adults participate too, but they have to read seven hours to complete a level.  I have challenged my class to read more levels than I can.  So I loved spending time reading, so they don't get too far ahead of me!

I read, The Chaos Code by Justin Thomas, Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi, City of Bones by Cassandra Clare, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson, Wither by Lauren DeStefano, The Order of the Odd Fish by James Kennedy, and The Magnolia League by Katie Crouch.

4)  Finished making bows for previously mentioned 4/5 team.

Orange shirts and a pile of finished hair bows.

To those who are finishing spring break, enjoy your last few days.  To those who are just starting, have a great week!  I'm off to the land of junior high craziness!
Happy Friday,
 

Oh Canada.....

Spring Break is halfway done!  How did that happen?  My brother and I spent four days in and around Vancouver, British Columbia.  He really really wanted a passport stamp (I tried telling him they don't do that anymore).  I really really didn't want to give up a weekend of spring break.  Did I mention that next weekend is a junior high overnight retreat, so I am losing both weekends of spring break sleeping?  Anyhow, because I am such a wonderful sister, I went along with this crazy plan.  
Here are some discoveries...
1. I have an addiction to diet bubbly pop.  Canada does not do bubbly pop, everywhere I went the pop was always flat, my current theory has to do with the kind of sugar.
2.  High School is known as Secondary School.
3.  Hockey Game Concessions...Potato Chips=French Fries.
4.  Everyone in downtown Vancouver was wearing boots or running gear...I kid you not!
5.  At Stanley Park at least as many people were rollerblading as biking.  I can't even remember the last time I saw a pair of rollerblades!

6.  During previously mentioned Hockey Game, everyone sings along with the singing of Canada's National Anthem.  It was pretty cool...I have been to a LOT of baseball games and I have never heard anyone sing along.
7.  They have a coin called a loonie.  How fun is that!?

8. Smarties are a candy I do not like...however in Canada Smarties look like this and are chocolate!

9.  It is beautiful beautiful country, sunny and warm, green, mountain-y.
10.  Flipping my car from mph to kph was pretty exciting.  (yes I am that easily amused)
11.  Unfortunately I did not see Shawn or Gus (for you Pysch fans) or any of the Fringe cast, but I did keep my eyes peeled for them.

 











Someday I will actually make it to Victoria B.C (I could not convince my brother to get there) and Prince Edward Island...the Anne Shirley tourist trap.  

But for now am glad I am back home with my nook, a blanket, and a warm fire!










Also, I think (hope) I fixed my blog button....please let me know if it is still not functioning.
Happy Wednesday,