He started kindergarten as we posted this entry, which was an adventure of adults messing up the simple things: lunches not ready, putting him on the bus when he was not supposed to be, wrong paper forms, directing us to people whose name the administrators didn't know ("go see the girl at such-and-such a building, I can't remember her name.") He seems to be adjusting better than the clueless adults running the operation.
We took a short trip to St.Louis with stops along the way. The end desination was Carrie and Brian's home, where we went to the Science Museum for a day, and saw an awesome IMAX movie about the Canadian Pacific steam trains of years ago. Nick got to play with Brian's remote control planes and cars, and we spent a lot of time in the basement playing ping pong and fooseball. Along the way we say the world's largest windchime, stopped in Toledo, IL, picked up wine from random wineries in small towns, and saw the Mid America Corvette Museum. We were bummed the steam train museum we went to see was closed.
We saw quite a few car shows this month, including the Midwest Mustang show at Ford World Headquarters, and cruised at the Woodward Dream Cruise. We drove the Shelby down to the latter, for a couple of hours in the morning and evening -- it was my first time, and we thoroughly enjoyed it. I estimated fuel economy of about 4 MPG on the trip up and down the strip, and it was worth every drop.
This month, we built a single-passenger fighter jet from a cardboard box (pictured here), and more planes and trains from cardboard tubes and such.
Plenty of pictures here.
- Jason
