The last week has been super busy with everything going on. Plus Asa has been job hunting (as always) and finishing up a class. Today was no exception.
The boys woke up to mail from the Home Office and the second last batch of pictures.
After Etta went for her run, and we got some things done around the house, we were off on our Olympic Field Trip. During the Summer Olympics, we took a couple. We went biyaking, to the trampoline gym, and horseback riding. But, it's a little harder in Florida to find some places to go on field trips for the winter games.
But, we do have the new Florida Hospital Center Ice. It's about 20 minutes from us, and opened last year, but we had never been. In fact, none of us had ever been on ice skates before, except Calib who did it once in Ohio (and told us he was just terrible at it). But, we wanted to try it out. And it was a perfect place, because the gold medal winning Women's Ice Hockey Team trained for the Olympics here, as did the French pairs skaters.
We laced up our skates, and we were ready to go.
Hayden got the penguin to help him around (spoiler alert: it didn't help that much).
I'm pretty sure Hayden spent more time on the ice than on his skates.
Calib and Peyton spent a lot of time clutching onto the side boards. Though, Calib eventually made his way to the middle to do some laps (slow laps, but laps!)
I was way better than I thought I'd be. Technically I fell once, but only kind of, because Hayden drug me down, and even then I just kind of sat on my knees since it was a very slow 'fall'. Probably all that rollerblading I did as a kid helped me out.
We had Hayden take some breaks (so Asa and I could skate around instead of picking him up off the ice the whole time, and Peyton stole the penguin to help a bit. He really did like it though, and said he wouldn't mind taking the 'learn to skate' classes they offer if it isn't too expensive.
We did have fun though, and everyone would totally go again!
We decided if we had to say who did the best, it was Peyton, followed by Calib, and then poor non-coordinated Hayden.
After skating, we went out for lunch. We were already down by PDQ, and Asa and I both had coupons for free sandwiches.
Once we got home we did some yard work and then played North America Jeopardy. Peyton was the only one who studied, so he ended up with the most money for his jar.
We also had a poor showing in flags. Nobody has ever been able to get down the exact placement of the Caribbean countries. They're just a giant blob of various nailpolish dots though, so I don't exactly blame them. Peyton was our winner, with four incorrect.
Then it was time for Speed Skating, everyone had 30 seconds to see how many laps they could make in their fuzzy socks. (The boys told me to save my tape and not make the outside of the track this time around, how thoughtful of them!)
Peyton swept the events today!
After our event the boys picked their best of North America post cards.
I kind of screwed up and put Trinidad & Tobago on the North America list, even though we did it under South America. But then, the box dinner of BBQ Chicken, fries and garlic bread won, so I went with it. They also voted in the Mexican corn and pineapple. (We didn't have time to make the Nanaimo Bars from Canada for dessert, and we still had leftover Chocotorta so we called it close enough, and had that with dinner.)
We tallied our medals for the day. Last night Peyton was amped for the Russian skaters winning gold and silver.
Which made us have a tie for first place! Peyton is not pleased. He said Hayden is winning because of the Netherlands, and he's super annoyed by it. (Also while I was typing this, the Netherlands just won another gold medal in Speed Skating, and Peyton flipped out.)
That is it from here.
Next Up: Tomorrow is the last of our 'Best of' days with Europe. It's also our last non-academic medal event with Hockey (they will have a final Jeopardy and final flags for medals).
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