Kit was schedule to run an audit at a hospital in downtown San Antonio on Monday, and she had a nice hotel room right across the street on the Riverwalk, so she invited the rest of the family along to enjoy a quick trip to S.A. We had lots of fun for a one-day trip, mostly exploring the Riverwalk, swimming, and eating. The girls did not want to leave on Monday morning after a final swim at the hotel, but I had to get back to work in the afternoon to catch up with the team on the happenings at Apple’s 2015 developer conference (WWDC).
Sister hug
Evening approaches on the river
Taking a break on the river
We logged many hours in this pool
Claire teaching Molly to swim
Checking out the Arneson River Theater
Understanding the grossness of digestion
Our guts on display at the Witte Museum
Nice view from the Witte
Molly tries rock climbing in cowboy boots and a dress at the Witte
The girls head out for their last day of school for this academic year. This was Molly’s last day in Pre-K and Claire’s last day in 3rd grade. It is a pajamas day for Molly, and both girls get to bring games, stuffed animals, etc. for their last day with their classes.
Here are a few of the things that Molly has specifically stated that she “hates” in recent weeks. Note that most of these things are almost universally admired by people who are not Molly. Also, this is only a partial sampling of things that Molly strongly dislikes.
The movie Back to the Future
Fresh Lemonade
Our dog, Muffin
Car washes (“why can’t you just keep the car clean to begin with?”)
We’ve been talking about trying geocaching for a while. Geocaching is a GPS-aided search for small containers hidden put there by other people for you to find. It is basically a crowdsourced outdoor exploration around town, in your neighborhood, or further out in nature. If this doesn’t make sense, see wikipedia.
Anyways, we didn’t know how to get started with geocaching. Kit saw that McKinney Falls State Park was offering a Geocaching 101 class, so we signed up. This would give us reason to check out this state park on the Southeast edge of town. A park ranger met us at the park and literally walked us through geocaching. She had four caches hidden and ready and gave us GPS units. She found the first one with us, and then set us out to find the others.
It was great wandering around the park looking for hidden containers. The girls enjoyed it, although they got tired by cache #4. We got to see Onion Creek, site of some serious floods a couple of years ago, and the upper McKinney Falls, which was flowing rapidly due to recent heavy rains. The open swim area had turned into a whitewater gusher. Kit and Claire were afraid of one of us falling in and drowning, but we kept our distance.
According to Molly, these are Strawberry Shortcake seeds. They were left on her plate after eating some Strawberry Shortcake. If you plant them, a Strawberry Shortcake will eventually grown from the ground. Molly is not kidding about this
Claire convinced Molly to do a blind taste test today. Their nanny, Sarah, sent us this picture of the fun with the caption, “Blind taste test was fun. Molly was a great sport!”
The girls’ school had its annual track day today. There was a mile race for the third-graders. Claire bravely took pet in this race and finished near end, tied with a new friend, Anna, who she met on the track.
Molly took part in the 1/4-mile race for the pre-K class. Molly finished as second place for per-K girls and got a medal! A total of three pre-K girls participated, and one girl finished behind Molly. Still, second place is second place, and a medal is a medal!
Molly scored two goals in today’s soccer game, her third soccer game ever!
Kit took Molly to the game and was very excited to tell me the news. Molly, for her part, denied everything. She said she did not score any goals and asked not to talk about it any more. Huh?
McG Kids 