Wild Weekend!

My weekend started with a bang. A student teaching seminar to end the week of all weeks! Luckily, the seminar only lasted 2 hours, and by 6pm I was on a date with two very fun kiddos, Meg and Connor!

I told them we could go anywhere in Rochester to eat for dinner (I was secretly hoping for Chuckee Cheese, since I needed a little Skee Ball action...). They chose the Apache Mall food court! Subway for them and Manchu Wok for me!

Connor wanted to stop by Barnes and Noble to check out the poster for the new Diary of a Wimpy Kid book to come out November 13. We found a fun Lego area to play at for a while.  We also checked out the new mall candy store and sampled some fudge! Yum!

When we got home, Megan read a goodnight story to Baby K and we snuggled up to watch some Phineas and Ferb. Unfortunately, we had to watch on my laptop since our tv is waiting to get fixed. 

Saturday morning, I hit the road by 6:30am to get to the Augsburg Minneapolis campus for an 8 hour ENVoY training. ENVoY is a training for teachers on group classroom management. It was an interesting seminar, but it was hard to relate to special education small group settings. Nonetheless, I had a fun day with my student teaching buddy Rachel!

When my seminar was finished, I met up with Kelly and Jenna in Woodbury. We wandered a few stores and met Liv and Torben for supper at Applebees. After we were stuffed, we headed to our home away from home, River Falls. We booked a hotel room for the night! Becky, Nicole and Lizzy joined us later, and we all got dressed up and headed out to the fine downtown establishments. We saw a few former alums that we knew, but we mostly felt a little old. Baby K was raising the roof during the loud club like songs...Here's my costume! Thanks Mindy for giving me the idea! 

I made it back to Rochester in time to go to the 1:30 Confirmation service at Bethel. I have been a confirmation mentor to a young girl, Amber, for the past year. It was a very nice and meaningful service. I'm so glad Tony and I attended. Here's the youth band playing during the offertory. Amber is the electric guitar. It's hard to see because my iPhone didn't zoom in enough. She's the one farthest left with the dark hair and white robe on. Her twin sister is the one in white singing. 

Tonight I've been working on Tony's anniversary present. All of a sudden, I looked up, and there was Sol, on top of the curtain rod. What a goofy cat! She jumped from her cat pole to the top!