Happy Not-Back-to-School Day 2019
Today was our official Not-Back-to-School day. We'll start doing some regular work tomorrow, but I have never started the day after Labor Day, mainly because I can choose not to. Instead, every year, we head off to a museum for the day. It is the absolutely best museum day of the entire year. The schools haven't been in session long enough to schedule field trips and all the different school districts have started. The museums are empty... gloriously empty and we usually have them all to ourselves.
Today was not exception. Instead of heading into Chicago like we usually do, we went the other direction and headed to Rockford instead. The crazy thing is that once you figure in traffic, it takes far less time to travel the same distance. One hour of driving as opposed to closer to two hours seemed a lot more appealing. We ended up at the Burpee Museum of Natural History. While it is a smaller museum, they have a nice collection of things, plus a pretty impressive set of dinosaurs. Who knew there were so many different ceratops varieties?
The hit of the morning was the special exhibit of live reptiles and amphibians. Being the only ones in the museum meant that some girls got to hold the corn snake for as long as their little hearts desired. Well, they held it for as long as my patience for waiting for them to grow tired of holding the corn snake lasted.
The whole crew I had in tow sitting in a dug out canoe. (Don't worry, the sign said to get in.) We were missing D. who had classes today and couldn't join us.
After the museum we stopped at a restaurant and celebrated the start of the school year with a Grammy outing lunch.
Today was not exception. Instead of heading into Chicago like we usually do, we went the other direction and headed to Rockford instead. The crazy thing is that once you figure in traffic, it takes far less time to travel the same distance. One hour of driving as opposed to closer to two hours seemed a lot more appealing. We ended up at the Burpee Museum of Natural History. While it is a smaller museum, they have a nice collection of things, plus a pretty impressive set of dinosaurs. Who knew there were so many different ceratops varieties?
The hit of the morning was the special exhibit of live reptiles and amphibians. Being the only ones in the museum meant that some girls got to hold the corn snake for as long as their little hearts desired. Well, they held it for as long as my patience for waiting for them to grow tired of holding the corn snake lasted.
The whole crew I had in tow sitting in a dug out canoe. (Don't worry, the sign said to get in.) We were missing D. who had classes today and couldn't join us.
After the museum we stopped at a restaurant and celebrated the start of the school year with a Grammy outing lunch.
(Thank you, Grammy!)
Tomorrow our regular schedule begins. Everyone is ready, including myself. Tomorrow is our version of syllabus day where we sort through all the new materials and I tell them how the new schedule will work this year. It's kind of the version of starting school that is similar to the slowly edging into the water method. We eventually get there but is less shocking to the system than just jumping in feet first.
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