Harvest Festival
The harvest festival was GREAT! With 4 bouncy castles(1 for under kindergarten age, 1 a platform "battle" for partners, 1 a race against someone -covering half of the gym!- and 1 was your plain, everyday bouncy castle), an I'm-not-sure-how-many-mini-games in the church hall (bowling, mini golf, etc.), a cardboard maze, AND snacks!
Main attractions for me and Jasmin were: cardboard maze (we went through it 3 times!) and the race bouncy castle. (it's actually hard to get two certain people to race!!) I met up with one of the Grace's (there's 3 Graces? 5? I'm not sure) and we decided to stick together. At the beginning, you got a card with a name tag and a place for 12 stickers on it. You'd get a stamp for every activity you'd do (and redo!) that evening. Me, Jas, and Aiden filled our cards. Unfortunately, Grace 2 didn't. Filling our cards meant we could trade our cards at the end for a bag of candy.
This was the AWANA night just before Halloween. Daddy took them as usual so Mommy could do the school planning. Mom kinda want to go - it was a family night thing - but after the reports of how loud and crowded it was, she was glad enough to have missed it. They came home louder and more wound up than usual :) Good kids that they are, their bags of candy went in the freezer without Mom saying so, and they haven't yet asked for any!
Halloween Alternative
There were 2 parts to the halloween alternative: 1. go swimming(!) 2. eat pizza. Swimming wasn't as great as I hoped, but it was ok. Swimming test:swim across the entire deep end. Slightly tiring, but worth it. Result: pass. Difference:Before:stay close to parents, NO diving, wear life jacket for fun stuff, etc. After (if you pass): go wherever you like, diving, no life jacket,etc. Jas couldn't eat Hawaiian :( But mom made her a gluten free pizza and put pineapple on it. Jas & her friend played boring/confusing games, and the adults were talking. I really need some older kids to play with!
But that night we made plans for a later date withe these friends to play Settlers - one of Grace's favourite games, so hopefully it will all be redeemed.
We really liked the pool - it is one of the newer ones, and is well laid out. We were all rather annoyed at the strict, rather-too-many safety rules, but having a tarzan rope swing, mini foam canoes, and diving boards kept us all pretty happy. Aiden is certainly over his fear of indoor pools - we got reminded more than once for letting him out of our reach - and would be swimming on his own soon if we went regularly. Maybe we will in winter...
Planetarium Fiasco
We have just finished our astronomy course that we started for the summer, and Mom wanted us to go to a planetarium. After web searching, we found out where to go, and that it was free for the last hour (4-5). But when we went, the GPS had a wrong idea of where it was so things got pretty tense in the car, but we persevered and found it. It is a small museum, and not so easy to find. The next thing that didn't go as planned was the museum staff told us there was no planetarium there! But their website talks about the programs that they run in it?!?! We checked out the space section since we were there. Not that big, but it was a little interesting at least. Hopefully we have better luck trying the Museum of Civilization on Nov 11!
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