BIRD BRAIN !

I had a blast at the zoo!! The weather was great and the kids were very good except when we lost one, twice. Oh don't worry, although we felt like leaving her there, we didn't. We found her. The best part of the zoo was Sonya getting attacked by birds. They landed on her head and then on her shoulder. The look on her face was priceless. These birds are inside a huge walk in cage free to fly all throughout the cage. We bought some nectar to feed to the birds and we found out the hard way that it DOES attract the birds!!!! She tried to be brave but she just couldn't stand it. I laughed so hard. Also, one bird bit her. I thought she was going to kill that bird. She was DONE after that, she wanted to get out of that cage. I didn't love the birds landing on me either but I did ok. Their claws can hurt when they stand on your tender shoulders. They were bitting our hair, chewing on our hair barretts and pecked our heads, ears and everything. I think Sonya had 3 birds at one time land on her. At one point she started scraming, get them off of me. I wish we had had a camera. She was really funny. I laughed really hard. When they landed on me I kept saying oh my, oh my, oh oh, another one is on my head. They are hard to get out of your hair too. If one had pooped on me, that is what worried me, I think I would have died, actually the bird may have died. We didn't feed all the nectar to the birds, we put the cup on the bench and left. What a weird experience. I don't think I will ever go back inside that cage, I KNOW Sonya won't. She was traumatized. Has anyone ever seen the movie BIRDS by Alfred Hitchcock? Well, that is what it felt like.

Sonya, Lura asked me to ask you about the poem you wrote about her when she got her butt cut. I can just imagine. Please post that poem when you get the chance.

Well, I started my second job tonight. The students seemed pretty good. I had 10 students and turned down 5 more. I just can't keep track of 15 students. It is hard enough with 10. Lynda was supposed to be with me but she had a doctors appointment and couldn't help tonight. I hope these students stay as calm and nice as they seemed tonight. I have 7 students scheduled for Thursday night. We'll see how that goes.

I have the perfect gift for Sonya for Christmas, a bird.

EATING AND SHOPPING, MY KIND OF LABOR DAY!!!

Hi everyone, I hope all is well. I had a great, long, week end. I went to our church camp, Fri night, all day Saturday, and Sunday. We had a wonderful time. I went with Ted and Joy and other memebers of our church. I really enjoyed myself. I came away feeling so blessed and wonderful. Some of it was like a revival and the rest of the time was just fun. We ate, sang songs, laughed, had a carnival, the kids got to swim, we ate, and really enjoyed ourselves. Did I mention we ate? The Boston Cream Pie was really good. I should visit Boston some time, they have good pie. I would like to thank the person that invented chocolate and custard together, genius! Then on Sunday evening I went to Cheryl's and stayed all night. On Monday afternoon we went to her dad's, my ex-husbands house. He and his wife were having a huge yardsale, I got some good bargains. I wore a cute pewter bracelet to work today with a little red heart on it. It matched my outfit just great. It was $2.00. I bought another bracelet with turquoise, and black small blocks on it, pewter also. That is for me too. I may have to go buy an outfit to match it because I really like the bracelet. I bought a lot of pens and a few things for a couple of friends. I bought the cutest cross shaped pins that were red, white and blue, ADORABLE!!! I wore one to work today also. It matched too. It was a very good week end except that I didn't get to see Sammy and Sawyer. I will see them this coming Friday night though. I am staying all night with them and we are going to the zoo on Saturday.