Busy week

We have a busier week than usual. Today was Juliettes. Tomorrow is dentist for Violet and election day for me. Wednesday is Jewelry class. Thursday is Cadettes. And Friday is "The Stinky Cheese Man" at the theater. So what are a couple of girls to do when things are really busy? If you're us, cancel most academic subjects and go to the pool.

Our theory is that we do better getting there if we are already out anyway. So tomorrow after the dentist we'll go to the bank, then stop to vote, treat ourselves to lunch out, then head to the pool. If all things remain as planned, we'll do something similar on Friday after the theater. We have punch passes to the pool that expire June 1st. I'd love to get a bunch more punches used before they expire. So even if we decide to only swim/play/float for 30 or 40 minutes, we're going to go. (Being an accountant, I've calculated what we've spent on all the passes we've gotten, how many times we went, and figured that even if we don't go again our pool admission average is less than if we had just walked in off the street and paid the daily rate. Walk in rate is $6 a person, we've spent $4. If we use all our punches we'll have it down to $2.77 a person per swim. Sometimes being an accountant is a curse.)

Juliettes was fun today. We painted cupcake banks for the 100th birthday. We also played "Kim's Game" a traditional Girl Scout game. And I had altered a cookie bingo game I have into a GS birthday bingo game. Cadettes stayed after and worked on their Couch Potato badge. They made homemade potato chips in the microwave, learned some couch aerobics exercises and started working on their Turn off the TV campaign.

In case any of you have been wondering, we loved Clifford last Friday. Clifford as a puppy was a puppet. Then when he grew big he was 2 people in a dog suit. (Well, we assume people in a dog suit, we didn't actually see people.) Clifford's friends were puppets held by actors in black. Violet was probably twice as old as the average student in attendance. But we don't care. We've been going to school day performances since she was in first grade, this is our 7th season. We plan to keep on going all through high school.

This week's show is "The Stinky Cheese Man" based on the fractured fairy tales by Jon Scieszka. It will be a little older crowd.

One drawback to a theater full of preschoolers is that most of them went to the theater by car driving by chaperones, not by bus. Our theater is downtown and parking is really limited. The small public lot by the theater was full when we got there. The street parking was full by the lot. We went around the corner and lucked onto a great spot on the street. It was a beautiful day so we didn't mind walking. We were close to heading over to the pay lot by the train station. Most groups will be going by bus this week, so it will be the normal crowded parking, not the completely insane parking. But we did decide next time we go to a primarily preschool show, we'll go really early and grab coffee/hot chocolate at the Starbucks by the theater.

Have a great week everyone! I'll update about the week as soon as I can.