goodbye summer

Jason's company gives tickets for fun family events in the summer and we cashed in on ours on Tuesday.  We opted for tickets to Busch Gardens.

  

Our county is one of the last ones in VA to go back to school so we had the park to ourselves.  We walked on to every roller coaster with no wait! 

We had food vouchers and ate plenty of good food.  Like a slice a cake bigger than the kids' heads!

Emmy had to do the teacups by herself because I can't do spinning rides anymore.  

Bryce saw these prizes at the start of the day and made sure to go back and play the game at the end of the day.  And as luck would have it, he won!

It was such a fun day!

Bryce had Open House at his school for his 8th grade year on Wednesday night.  I forgot to take pictures but I got one on Thursday night at Emmy's.  She was so excited to get the same teacher Bryce had for 5th grade.

We went to a friend's house to watch the Hokies play on Friday night.  Jason got a new suit for the occasion.   

We closed out the pool season today!  We had planned to go watch the cardboard boat regatta and Emmy decided at the last hour (this morning) that she wanted to participate.  

Their boat wasn't very stable and we were short of decorating materials, but they participated and had a great time. 

There were some really amazing boats that did really well.  We learned a lot in case we do it again next year!

There were other fun events at the pool today.  The kids played Bingo and both won treats from the snack bar.  We've got one more day of summer vacation tomorrow and then we head back to school!