Weekend

We decided to take the "weekend" off and head up to Busch Gardens for H's upcoming birthday. C will be in language school on the day of H's actual bday, so we decided this was the weekend to celebrate. We had such a wonderful time! The weather cooperated perfectly! We ended up leaving here Thursday, spending all day Friday at Busch Gardens, and heading home Saturday. Friday turned out to be almost 80 degrees and partly sunny: the perfect day for a theme park! H tried a new roller coaster this time, the Loch Ness monster, which has a couple of loops. He didn't want to do it when we got there, but by midday, he was up for it and ended up riding it a couple of times with daddy. He also did the Big Bad Wolf 3 times, twice with mom and once with daddy. K and A enjoyed the smaller rides. It wasn't that crowded, so they got to ride some rides 5x in a row! I didn't get many pics of H, even though it was his bday weekend, but it was mostly because he was off enjoying the big boy rides with daddy.

Other topics: move stuff is going along. I've got a ton of things to get accomplished over the next couple of weeks. Lots of doctors appointments, passport stuff, etc. I'm thrilled to announce that we found a wonderful home for Comet. I was really stressing about it, since he is 9 yrs old. Most people don't want a senior dog. We got lucky and found a perfect home for him. She'll be taking him in the next couple of weeks and getting him all settled in. Next will be Clarabell, the cat. The kids will probably have the hardest time letting her go, since she's been with us for over 5 years. They all know that the move will be too hard on the pets to take them along and it's best for everyone to find new homes for Clarabell and Comet. My hope is that we can do it all over the next month, that way the kids don't have too much to deal with at move time. Also, we found out that we can't take a vehicle with us, so we'll be storing our Yukon and just buying something over "there" for the time we are there. As much as it kills me to pay on a car we are not driving, at least it will be paid off when we return with very low mileage and in fantastic condition. And, while we are there we'll be cruising around in a cute little island vehicle.

All else is well. C is starting school this week, H starts the spring season for soccer and everyone else is doing fine.