Month: May 2018

We made Mom a lemon pound cake for her birthday. We had a nice quiet day as she requested 🙂 Happy birthday MOM!

We are so excited that this summer we are in town for some of the Fun Sail activities. We had a great time out on the boats. I really enjoyed the kayaks. I was zipping all over the place. E found a LOT of sea life. He had several huge urchins. Lots of hermit crabs.
The highlight of his collecting were a MASSIVE lightning whelk and a huge Florida horse conch. He quickly became the hit of all the kids. Sadly, the weather turned and we had to end the day early. We had a blast and can’t wait to go back to more this summer.

We are studying, a little, for the 4-H Horticulture contest in June. We jumped on the program rather late so are trying to get a running start from where we are. We visited Landmark Nursery for a morning of exploring the plants. We ended up bringing home more plants for our garden. We also visited the big box hardware stores and checked out their gardening areas. We had a fun time being silly but learning in the process. We attended a meeting of the Brooker Creek Explorers as well and learned from their youth as well as had a mini ID review. The rains have been heavy again so this means many inside crafts and games. I did a knotted quilt for my bed. It came out really nice. Oh, E and I also attended the 4-H state review of the county programs. We got to talk to Dr. Gutter and other 4-H state people about our programs and what is working and not working. It was a great experience. I am enjoying taking on more leadership roles lately in 4-H. I think this will help me in my future when I become a marine biologist, entomologist or just all around science guy! 

We participated in a Marriott Vacation Club preview. We had several nights at a fancy vacation club property near Disney. There were so many things to do that we never left the property! We spent HOURS in the pool, dodging storms. We did all sorts of crafts from jewelry making to candle making and soap making. Our room was HUGE! I had my own private room. E took the living room. Mom and Dad had a bedroom with a hot tub! This place was almost as big as our house! Most of the time it rained. We were fine with it though. The rain cleared out the pools so when it would stop we would head back down to swim. One pool had a GIANT bubble zone. Dad has to run home for work so we enjoyed the last night on our own. We went to an outdoor music performance called “dueling pianos”. We were able to request songs! We sang and laughed along with the silly guys. We entered a fishing derby. After 1.5 hours Emmerson was the only one to catch a fish! There weren’t many other people that entered and we all tied. We each got an icee. We were set for pool scuba class but the rain just kept coming and coming. We crossed our fingers and hoped for the best. There was a break in the rain right at the end of the window for the day. We spent the afternoon in the pool learning a little about SCUBA. I had a blast and then said I wanted diving lessons for my birthday! I really enjoyed the feeling of being under water so much! All cleaned up and one last trip around the resort for some giant chess. We packed up and headed out saying goodbye to our wonderful adventure. We stopped at the outlet mall to get Dad a few dress shirts. I spotted the BeaverTails food truck! This was a huge hit in Canada and they just opened the day before here! We loved out BeaverTails. Such  great treat to wrap up our fun little get away.

I have been reviewing for the PERT test. I am hoping to take classes at SPC in the fall. Just a few here and there. It is free for homeschool students to take classes as dual enrollment. Well, today I took the test and I passed! I am ready for college level classes! How cool!

We went by to get my student ID as well. I look so grown up in the photo!