A Camp Fair, The Grandparents Come North, and Another Volleyball Tournament

Randle had a camp fair all day Saturday.  This time it was really a Children's Music and Book Festival, though.  Harley and I went with him.  It was at a vocational school, so they had the farm animals on display.  We were talking to the teacher of the Farm department and explaining how Natalie loves animals and was going to be so jealous of her sister seeing the 1 day old lambs. Before we could finish the thought, he had picked up a lamb and put it in Harley's arms.  Harley also got to meet Jarret, the author of the Lunch Lady Series.  These are the books that really started Harley reading.  She couldn't put them down.  She was a little embarrassed, typical pre-teen, but I made her have her picture made anyway.  She will thank me later.  ;)

My mom and dad came for a visit during my mom’s Spring Break, so they got to us Easter Sunday and left the following Thursday.  We tried to pack as much in as we could.  Sunday we took them for a tour around camp, Monday they got to see where Natalie attends Physical Science and Spanish, went to lunch at Subway and then hung out around the house.   Tuesday, we took Natalie to school, walked around Great Barrington (in the freezing wind), and then hung out at the house.  I had to babysit from 2:30-6:30, so my mom made enchiladas for dinner and Natalie got to go shoot a 12 gauge with my dad.  She also learned how to clean it and cleaned her BB/Pellet gun as well.  Wednesday, we took Natalie to school, stopped by Staples to get a flash drive so my mom could get some pictures off of the computer and had breakfast and coffee at Big Y.  We took them to Umpachene Falls and then, had Lunch at Four Brothers Pizza and then took Harley to school for band.  After picking Harley up we went to Campbell Falls with is in both Connecticut and Massachusetts, and then on to Winsted, Connecticut to let them see the YMCA where Randle works in the Fall and Winter and then went Duck Pin bowling.  It was a lot of fun.

Randle went to see Superman VS Batman and then met me to go grocery shopping.  Natalie and Harley decided to stay home, so we had a mini-date and grabbed a quick dinner at Wayback Burgers.  I wasn't impressed with the burger, but the Chili Cheese Fries and Shake were great.  On the way home, Randle his a porcupine. He never saw it, only felt it.  It camp flying up and I had to swerve.  When we got home, we found quills in his tire.  

Natalie had another volleyball tournament at Chelsea Piers Connecticut.  They didn't do as well this time.  The whole team seemed to have an off day.  Still a lot of fun to watch. Natalie still did well.  

This time, we went down the night before so we wouldn't have to get up as early (5AM).  We stopped and had Chick-fil-a in Danbury Connecticut.  We love our Chick-fil-a.  

We were glad we went to the hotel, because there were small snow storms Sunday morning and visibility was poor.  We would probably have had to call and say we wouldn't be able to make it.  We woke up Monday to more snow.  Mt. Everett was canceled and we had a nice day of Math only and lots of Boy Meets World and Monk.