Two more weeks...

Yep, in two weeks I will be setting my classroom up trying to figure out how I can get through another year of 6th grade as painlessly as possible. I will be teaching reading again, so I am going to have to find something new to do to make it a lot more fun for myself to teach and for the kids to learn. A lot of the stuff I do is fun, but I have done it already for 2 years, so I am already a bit bored with it.

This weekend proved to be another busy one.....sort of. We started out Friday night with a moonlight ride up at Cades Cove. Unfortunately I started feeling icky... there has been talk of some sort of stomach funk going around town, which makes you feel like you need to vomit, but you don't. I don't know which is worse, but I had the one that made me just FEEL like I was going to puke. We turned around at the top of Rich Mountain road and came back down slowly. We still saw the moon, just not inside the Cove. It was really beautiful.

Saturday morning Smap and I headed over to volunteer for a local sprint tri. Smap's bike shop does all the bike maintenance for Race Day Events. I always help Smap out when it is his turn, and then I end up volunteering for other duties they are short people on. This time I got sucked into traffic control. It wasn't too bad. We did have a good time watching all the first timer tri folk going through transition. One guy had his wife in the transition area wiping his face for him. He was taking it really slow, but I think he was having fun so that is all that counts. Others were sitting down UNTIEING their shoe laces prior to putting their shoes on for the bike....One guy slowly sat there doing the shoe thing, then stood up and put his shirt on after turning it around several times to make sure he had it on the correct way. I mean really! It was quite humorous and I felt guilty laughing, but it couldn't be stopped.

We were very domestic this weekend as well as getting in a great HOT mountain bike ride on Sunday. I was going to try to do some hill repeats, but it was BLOODY HOT!!!! I decided after doing one hill repeat, that it was enough or I would find myself not able to get out alive.

Our new kitty cat is doing good. I did find that he had snuck downstairs to poo a few times, so we put a stop to that. He also really likes oatmeal just like Ippon. We have a nice family breakfast now with everyone enjoying their oatmeal.