This weekend we did a quick trip to Charlottesville to go apple picking. After we drove up we went to the Virginia Discover Museum, a children’s museum downtown. We then walked their open air pedestrian downtown area and had dinner at an outdoor cafe. After we stumbled upon a free music festival that Brooke had a lot of fun dancing at. The next day we picked apples, enjoyed a hayride, and did a little light hiking before having lunch and driving home.
Today was GORGEOUS outside! It has really started to feel like fall with our 70 degree days. We spent the day together hiking one of our favorite parks, NWRP. We hiked the Molly Mitchell trail for 2 miles before finishing the half mile on the road to the lake. There we had lunch at a picnic table and set up the hammocks to rest before hiking back out.
Brooke is so very excited to be finally going to Kindergarten! She is most excited to ride the big yellow school bus like all the other kids in the neighborhood. On her first day we got ready and took a lot of pictures waiting for the bus. We got to the bus stop (the corner in front of our house) 10 minutes early and when it was 25 minutes late we were finally able to get a hold of the bus driver to find out that she came by 15 minutes early and didn’t even stop or honk at our stop. Brooke has late start Kindergarten so we were all up, dressed, and hanging out for 2 hours before she gets on the bus. We scrambled to get her into the car and drop her off at school before the start of her first day. AJ and I were flustered about the situation and our wonderful positive girl says ‘at least I get to ride the bus home!” Alex and I waited 30 minutes early on the porch for the afternoon bus ‘just in case’. He got a little pouty when it took so long for her to get home. The afternoon bus came right on time. Then she came in for a first day treat of cookies and juice. She had a great day and told me that they went on a tour of the school, sang songs, sat on the alphabet rug to listen to her teacher, and she talked to some new friends.
Today we were waiting outside for her bus 25 minutes early ‘just in case’ and she was able to get on the bus when it came 8 minutes early and I got to get the iconic first day bus picture!!
Today we had Kindergarten Orientation at Brooke’s School. We got to see her classroom and she had a practice ride on the school bus. Afterward, I went to work and AJ made Key Lime Pie with the kiddos!
It was the last day that we could to go to Busch Gardens before our summer passes expired so we had one last fun family day riding the rides with Brooke and Alex.
