On the way home from work on Friday, I called Grandpa Milo. He was over at the coast with Uncle Doug and Aunt Sheila. They invited us to come over and spend the night with them in a condo at Depoe Bay. I called Lorena and the kids and they were up for it, so we drove over. That evening all we did was sit around and watch television, but the next day Grandpa and Grandma joined us at the Newport Aquarium.
We have been there three or four times before and it is a little expensive, but the aquarium had an excellent traveling bat exhibit and we love the tunnel that allows for walking right in amongst the sharks. One other new thing we saw there was a sea dragon. It looks like a cross between a seahorse and a plant and is absolutely one of the most beautiful animals I have ever seen. We got a kind of a blurry picture of it. We plan to take a bunch more pictures of it when we go back to see the traveling turtle exhibit that gets there this spring.
As you have probably already seen, Kelly and Christian have both made their first unaided posts. They enjoyed it a lot. Today, Kelly will be putting together a post to introduce herself that she will write in OpenOffice so that she can more easily spell check it. Christian will start working on the webpage as we have downloaded some photographs from our recent trip to the beach.
This week will be a pretty normal homeschool week–swimming lessons on Monday and Wednesday, piano lessons on Thursday, and all the normal materials during the rest of the week. We are on the downhill side of our program now. Both of the kids are in week twenty of the thirty-six week program. Our goal is to finish by the end of May so that we can go down to Mexico to see Grandpa Lauro and Grandma Conchita during the alergy season at the beginning of June.