Ben was home today and my whole week has been a bit off-schedule, so it felt like a Saturday today. We did Legos several times, some chores, a nap, and Isaac came home!!
He had a great time. He said he was a little skeptical at the beginning about whether it would be worth it or not, but he said it definitely was.
It was a relatively normal day. Ben and Joshua went eFoiling in the morning because our other plans had been canceled. It was hot today but not as hot (or maybe not as humid) as it was the earlier part of the week. Next week is looking much nicer.
Here are some pictures from Isaac's mission trip. We're only getting uncaptioned pictures and a very short daily update. (It's the right amount. It's really nice to have a place that all the leaders are adding pictures to as it gives a bit more of the story than the emails.)
There's a band-aid on his leg in this picture! Something must have happened. He's smiling though, so it must not have been too bad.
Today was a bit of an extra day. We built it in in case flights went very south and so that we could get used to the time change before our tour on Monday.
We hadn't realized that we needed to reserve a time for breakfast, so we ended up with a 7:30 breakfast. Not ideal, but we did schedule lunch for 11 so it was probably good too. The buffet was great! It had some interesting flavors (pear banana yogurt, rhubarb juice, currant juice) along with enough normal things.
After breakfast several of us went back to sleep. I know that's not really what you're supposed to do when there's a time change, but at the same time we didn't have any plans and no one had slept well on the planes. We eventually got up and were about to start walking to LEGO house and it started to rain. We went by taxi instead.
Lunch at LEGO house was very nice! We're actually going to eat there again - we didn't realize that when we booked these reservations. The robots are fun, the story behind the mini figures making our lunches is fun, and the food was good. The kids got a mini figure chef as part of their lunch and Isaac asked if these were the retired mini figures, now sent home to be played with. Unfortunately, that isn't the case. They were on dishwashing duty today and didn't want to dishwash because they have tiny hands, so their punishment was to be sent home with kids.
The robots that hand out the meals! The mini chefs make the meals in the back, then they come down the track and the robots push them out to you.
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It was still raining and our next activity was an outside one, so we just hung around the entry of LEGO house for a bit. We looked in the gift store and at several of the models. The rain seemed to let up, so we were off.
Mrs. Galli invited Joshua and some friends to use the obstacle course at the dojang today. It was a perfect day because the whole week has been too hot to do anything outside, so they were still able to run around without getting too hot.
Our plans for tomorrow were canceled. It might be a good thing because it was outside at a playground and we'd need to get out of the house rather early so that it was only hot and and not crazy hot. However, this means that we pretty much have boring-for-Joshua plans tomorrow.
Joshua and I had another full day today.
We had some errands and went to a play at Hope College. (The play was good, but had a bit more singing than either of us were expecting. Some singing is ok, but a few fewer songs would have been nice. we both enjoyed the fun songs more.)
I started taping the walls in the basement for painting. We played Chinese checkers. I made steak via sous vide (since I need to return it tomorrow). It was good, but there were a few improvements that could be made. Joshua made mashed potatoes as his vegetable for the week.
It was an excellent day, even though Isaac was gone.
We'll start with Isaac. I received several pictures throughout the day but only saw him in two - and one of those he was just kind of in the background. I'm not sure how he managed to hide so well.
Joshua and I had a productive morning. We did 30 minutes work/ 30 minutes fun on repeat. For our fun part we were making a door in Isaac's bedroom door. It was surprising how quickly our Duplos disappeared as part of this project.
For one of our work segments we worked on the basement walls. We finished taking things off the wall and fixing the holes. Joshua and Tornado were both intrigued by the hole under the steps.
Friends came over in the afternoon - Joshua played in the lake for several hours and I finished a puzzle with Elizabeth that we've been working on for quite a while. We both thought that this would be a fun and pretty easy puzzle. It was a fun puzzle, but not an easy one! We finished it up outside to keep a better eye on the kids.
For dinner I had borrowed a sous vide machine from the library, so I used that with some chicken. It was delicious! I don't think I've made chicken that good...ever. Even Joshua said it was good and ate all of his chicken which is rather amazing.
Isaac left on a mission trip today! We don't expect to have any direct contact with him, but will have access to pictures and a daily mass email. They arrived safely!
