Weekly Wrap Up: Half Marathons, Family , Field Trips Edition

What a great week we had!  There was no formal schooling actually taking place as we took a trip over Easter weekend to Tennessee and Alabama.  One of the reasons was that Michael and I participated as in actually completed the Oak Barrel Half Marathon in Lynchburg, TN.  It was long but oh so gratifying to cross the finish line!  We did ok considering that it was our first half marathon and there were hills.  Lots and lots of hills along with one killer one.  There aren't a lot of hills in Florida to train on so we were at a slight disadvantage.  We weren't last though and we finished.  That's all that matters, right?  The children hung out with Michael's mom aka Grammy while we were half  marathoning!



Cousins

After the half marathon, we returned to Aunt Diane's house for our Easter celebration.  She lives in Jacksonville, Alabama.  The weather was beautiful.  The company was awesome.  I didn't have to cook anything. Life was good.

Aunt Diane was a most gracious hostess. She has a beautiful home and yard not to mention that she is a phenomenal cook.  I could not live near her as I would be as fat as a house. lol  We spend several days with her visiting, eating and planting in her yard.  Grammy had a great visit with her as well.  A visit that helped her grieving heart, I'm sure.



 On the way home, we stopped at the Butterfly Rain Forest in Gainesville, Florida.  We really like butterflies.  Plus, I needed to get out of the car to stretch for a while.  There were massive amounts of local and exotic butterflies.  Plus many little birds and lizards.  It was well worth the money spent to get in.

The Butterfly Rainforest is located inside the Museum of Natural History.  Since we had a few minutes to spare before our time on the parking meter ran out, we walked around a bit too.  It was a rushed visit but the children enjoyed what they did see, especially the fossils.  I did not like the clearly evolutionary tone to the display but we had a wonderful discussion about it.  I love that my children can discern that evolution goes against the Bible thereby making it not factual (evolution not the Bible).  Their faith is so refreshing!

That was our week in a nutshell.  Other than that, we unpacked, did laundry and generally got back to our regular schedule sans lessons.  Never fear though, lessons resume on Monday.

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