Final Post

Hey everyone, sorry for not posting in a while. I was really busy last week, and then gone all weekend. Sad to say I never thought this day would come, but this week is doing me in. Although I've had a great time at the zoo, I'm sort of ready for a change of pace. I think I'm calling the blog quits for now. I really appreciate all of you that read it. Hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I did writing it. I'm heading home this weekend for a few days and then moving back to Morningside on Monday.

Jessica

Day 51

Okay I am officially starting to feel exhausted. It has finally hit me. Good things still happened today at work, but these kids are starting to drive me nuts. hahaha They are loud, and they do not listen very well. The original plan was to have some birthday treats after lunch tomorrow for my birthday with the kids, but we are going into tomorrow one strike away from having that taken away. Not sure what it is that's different about this week, but they just constantly talk. Guess I feel pretty lucky now to have not had weeks like this one before this summer. We went through Australia this morning, and we decided to hold hands in pairs to walk around rather than one really long line. Eli (Mr. Ornery) was my buddy this morning. He's still that ornery kid that I can't help but enjoy. haha

Oliver asked me yesterday if he could bring his shark teeth in for show and tell, and it actually fit in well with some of our lessons.

As I write this at almost 5pm tonight, the sky is looking good. Aimee said they had a good flight this morning. Looking forward to getting out there again tonight. Also as I write this, I am just a bit over 7 hours away from my birthday, not that I'm counting. hahaha Sorry another shorter post.

Day 50

So it was too windy for any of the balloons to go up tonight, and I'm tired and just feel like I should shower and go to bed. Our flight last night was interesting. It was kind of windy, but we got her up, and they were booking in the air. Then we blew a tire on the highway with the chase car. Fastest tire change I've ever witnessed. haha Was a fun night, though. At first I wasn't sure what to do with myself tonight since we couldn't balloon but I ended up chatting with some friends. Nothing too monumental jumping out at me from camp today other than that we did a craft that took us about a half hour this afternoon. Didn't think the kids actually had it in them to stay focused that long. haha Well, this post is really jumbled, and I apologize to those of you who look forward to reading it every morning. I'll do better tomorrow, but I need to take advantage of this going to bed a bit earlier thing while I can :-) Thanks again to all of those you who like to read my blog though. I don't think I have said that yet.

Day 49

Well, since it will be kind of later nights for me this week, I think I will post about balloons before I go into what I did at the zoo. So, last night I was out at the balloon field again and things ran smoothly again. The balloon made it all the way across Hwy 65/69 last night, which was different. Landed in some land owned by the county. Brett, Tom's 3rd grade son, was my little buddy tonight. The first night I met him he was pretty quiet, but we were having a good time in the way back seat of the chase car. We were having a little water bottle sword fight, and then I told him I was going to tackle him once we got outside. After that, he threw some grass on me. hahaha

At the zoo today, we started our second Prehistoric Pals camp. As you know, the dinosaurs are pretty popular with the kids. We have a full 24 kids starting out in the morning, and after 1:00 still have 12 of them. Three campers are repeats from other weeks - Chance, Eli, and Oliver P.

We learned about the three main dinosaur periods (Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous), fed the fish, visited the dinosaurs, took our group and individual photos, and worked on our craft bags.

This afternoon one memorable thing happened during some Simon Says. When I said, "I'm Simon, Chance said back, "and we are Says." hahaha

So, the balloon didn't go up this morning... too much wind up above, and not sure if we're going to be able to get it up tonight. Guess we'll see.