Cross country season has started

Yes it is that time of the year. What time is that you ask? The time of the year where I walk around golf courses and other large grassy areas cheering on people running across them, especially Jeffery and the rest of the team.

Jeffery is one of those people who loves to run but takes about a 1/4 mile to get into his groove. Yes that means he is a distance runner. This summer around everything else he was doing he ran almost 500 miles. He says that running gives him a chance to burn off energy, sort out thing that are bothering him and/or give him a chance to just enjoy the moment.

Yesterday was the first met of the season. This meet was moved from Thursday evening where it had a reputation of being extremely hot. It was much better being on Saturday morning instead. It was still warm but nothing like it has been the past several years, I don't think that anyone had to go to the hospital this year for a pleasant change.

The team is off to a great start. They came in third in all groups! That holds well for the rest of the season. I am not sure about Jeffery's time I think he was 34th but I am not sure.

More Disney

More about the music department trip to Orlando.

The next day we went to the Magic Kingdom.

This was also the day that the Choir had their workshop. Jeff said that they had fun at the workshop. They sang several songs for a soundtrack for part of the Lion King. The choir joined us later that morning.

While the choir was busy the rest of us went to the Magic Kingdom. To get to the Magic kingdom we had to take the ferry across the lake.

Randy and I had fun exploring the park. One of the first things we went to was the Pirates ride because was a good place to start and mid morning we did the jungle cruise as a great way to relax. Randy said that he thinks the jokes on the jungle ride are the same ones he heard when he was there as a kid.

We then headed over to tomorrowland so Randy could ride Space Mountain. This was something he insisted on riding. He had been looking forward to it for years because when he was there as a kid it was closed.

While we were running around the park Jeffery and the rest of the choir returned and they also were running around the park. We only saw them at the end of the evening.

One of the girls in the group convinced Jeffery to try on some princess ears. Of course a picture was taken.
At the end of the day we all met up at near the flagpole at the entrance to watch the spectra magic parade and the fireworks afterwards.

This was the end of the day and our long day in the parks.

We did have one little adventure after we returned to the hotel for the night. One of the students was so tired that they fell asleep on the bus and unfortunately no one notices till curfew. After a looking for them for a good while it was suggested that they might have fallen asleep on the bus so the head bus driver was woken up so we could check the bus. Sure enough the student was still asleep in the bus.

Disney for Spring Break

This past March Randy and I were part of the Chaperones for our high school's music department trip to Disney World. We visited all four of the major parks: Aminal Kingdom, Epcot, Magic Kingdom and Disney Hollywood Studios (this one used to be called Disney MGM Studios) and we spent a day in Cocoa Beach too.

This trip was a large group we had over 300 people on this trip and took 7 charter buses to get there. While the buses were much nicer than school buses it still took over 24 hours to get there with all the stops and it everyone was glad when we arrived at the hotel. We did have one adventure on the way to Orlando, we had a stow away. After talking with the parents the student was picked up by the police at our first stop to wait for his parents.


Our first day in Orlando spent at Disney but we spent it in two parks. We were at Animal Kingdom until late afternoon and then Epcot until it closed.

When we first arrived at Animal Kingdom Randy and I headed to the Asia area, Jeff was with his friends most of the day so we did no see him much. Randy wanted to ride the Mount Everest Ride. Randy likes roller coasters but since I do not like roller coasters at all Randy went on it without me and was able to get on almost immediately because he was a single and could fill a open seat. We did the walking treks and the trails which are fun. We did not do things in any real order but crisscrossed the park several times before it was time to leave.



When we arrived at Epcot we went in with Jeff and his friends so I was able to take some pictures of them entering the park. Epcot was also where Jeff remembered to get his picture taken with some of the characters: Mickey, Minnie, Pluto, Goofy. When we were walking over to Mexico to get some food we ran across Rafiki and Jeff got his picture with him too. After Jeff ate he met back up with his friends and we met up with them to watch Illuminations light show. Both times I have been to Epcot has been during their topiary show which is just beautiful. The topiaries make me wish that I could grow plants instead of killing them.

Slight problem

I was planning on adding more posts about what has been going on here but we ran into a slight problem.

We had a computer problem. The motherboard on our main computer died and of course that is where all the pictures were. We have replaced the motherboard and everything is up an running. So I will be able to get the pictures and update soon.