monster golf

It was fun - we were practically the only ones there. Shara was sort of scared of some of the animatronics but it didn't stop her from going through the 18 holes. Great for a semi-rainy day and far enough away that she got to read a good amount of her book. Yesterday we actually bought one at the library. They had an author there talking to a group of 4-6 grade kids, "My Sort of Fairy Tale Ending with Special Guest Author Anna Staniszewski" She had the kids do a little writing exercise, talked about her book and answered several questions from the kids. Shara got her first book from the My Very Unfairy Tale Life series and really likes it. Something in it was rather scary to her so she's only reading it during the day.

Fourth Grade!

Mini Golf - Kimball Farm

Shara loved (s) school. Her teacher is so nice and she gets to sit with anyone she wants at lunch. When I got home after her first day she was still bouncing off the walls she was so excited. Then Friday we were alone - Alan had a church meeting - so we had a girls night watching Bedtime Stories and eating leftovers. Then we were able to have a girls' day Saturday. After being unproductive in the morning we headed out to Kimball Farms to play some pretty good mini golf, look at some birds (peacock didn't open it's wings) & ponies - so little and then had to cart around those kids full of barrels of ice cream... We joined in the ice cream gluttony and got children's sized, which really were as big as mediums, with toppings. Shara had cherry vanilla chip w/ butterscotch and I had red raspberry chip yogurt w/ hot fudge. Then on the way toward home I made her stop to get apples. Shara stayed in the car - locked in the back and played on her phone. I went in and after looking around for a bit, went back out and told her she'd enjoy seeing all the fun things inside, like little cups of pressed cider from a spigotted barrel coming out of the wall for 5 cents or the huge bins of apples. I got apples and a 1/2 peck of peaches. Happily we were ready to go on our way home - shopping for apples or anything else wasn't high on the list. But we do have four big bags of peaches in the freezer now!

Shara feeding koi after mini golf

Here's a video of Shara feeding the koi and letting them nibble on her fingers after playing miniature golf. As she gave one of the last pieces of food one of the koi grabbed her whole thumb!