Christian, Ethan, and Julia had their last days of school this week. Christian's last day was on Tuesday and Julia and Ethan's last day was on Wednesday. It sounds like they all had a fun last day. Christian had a party and brought home lots of treats. He really liked his teacher a lot, but I think he was glad to be done with school. He had a couple friends that he said he would miss too, but he will actually see them at church throughout the summer since they are in our ward. In fact, I guess he will see his teacher at church too throughout the summer since she is the ward that meets right before we do. Ethan also had some party activities, but they mainly watched a movie - Ralph S. Mouse. I got to go to school with Julia for her last day. It was an exhausting day! We started off just in the classroom for the first 45 minutes while the teacher just let the kids go wild. She was opening up gifts that kids had given her while all of the students were running around the class. After that we got on the bus to go on Julia's field trip. We started at the skating rink which was a lot of fun. Julia has roller blades, but she hasn't used them all that much so she was taking it nice and slow. She could get around and only had a couple falls, but she was definitely very cautious. She still had a blast though and said she wants to go a lot more. I had a fun time too and I thought owning a rollerskating rink would be a pretty fun family business. It seems like the expenses would be the building and then upkeep of the equipment, but then you wouldn't really need many employees and there is no product that you have to keep in stock and try to sell before it gets old. Then you can also make a lot of money off the concessions. There was a Papa Murphy's next door and the pizza place bought their pizzas from there, heated them up, and sold them for over twice as much. After three hours of roller skating we found a park to eat lunch. Then it was off to bowling. Julia and I were on a lane with two other girls that she new, but then we got a boy to join us who couldn't find another group. He did not want to stay in his seat at all. Every time it was his turn I had to search around the whole bowling alley to find him. We were able to get through one game and barely start a second game. I think all the other lanes got through 3 games. Julia said she didn't like bowling very much up until she finally got a strike. Then she was all smiles. The bowling alley participates in free summer games for kids which we may take advantage of if we can figure out what we would like to do for shoes. I remember going bowling during the summers a lot when I was going up and I think my mom found some bowling shoes at the thrift store so we wouldn't have to rent shoes always. We will have to keep our eyes out for some cheap shoes as well. On the bus ride home both Julia and I fell asleep even though it was just 15 minutes to get back to her school. I am glad that I got to participate in that fun last day.
To celebrate school being out we decided that we would go on a long family hike the next day. We are thinking of making this a new family tradition for the day after school. We have our usual hike that we do that takes about an hour or two for the round trip. From the top of our usual hike we can see some radio towers off on a distant peak so we decided to hike to them. It was a long trip. There were a few ups and downs so it was somewhat difficult both ways. Agnes got carried the entire time, but everyone else did great. We left at 9 am and did our first break at 11 when we were about 2/3 of the way there. The last third was pretty steep and there was no real trail for us to follow, but we made it. At the top we took a break and had a picnic lunch. Then on the way back Agnes slept the entire way. She was super heavy while she was sleeping and I just can't imagine what it would be like to sleep while someone was carrying you. I wonder if you would have dreams about flying or floating or something like that. We finally got back at 3 o'clock and we were all exhausted.
On Friday we celebrated us all being off by doing a family temple trip up to Rexburg. We got up early so the kids could sleep in the car on the way there. I went first while Rebecca did breakfast with the kids once they woke up. Then, when Rebecca was in the temple I took the kids to BYU-Idaho again. This time I figured out how to turn the air hockey table on and the kids were super excited about that. After playing for about an hour we just walked around the campus. We walked through the library having a contest to see who could be the quietest, but a father walking around with 5 small kids on a college campus still got a few looks. As we were leaving the library we ran into one of the sister missionaries that served in our ward in Alaska. She had been home from her mission for exactly one year and she thought it was really cool to run into us on her year mark. When we got back to Pocatello we went to the Pizza Pie Cafe. Julia, Ethan, and Christian all got free buffet coupons from school for them and a sibling. So Rebecca and I were the only ones that had to pay and we still have some free coupons left over. It had been a long time since I had been to an all you could eat pizza place and it brought back some memories. It wasn't the best quality pizza, but it was fun to let everyone get whatever types they wanted. Rebecca and I ended up tying at 9 pieces each, which isn't all that much, but we were both stuffed. If it was a little better quality I think I could have gotten a few more pieces in, but when I was starting to feel full I just didn't have much motivation to keep going. The kids have been getting a lot of free coupons this year for their reading - in addition to Pizza Pie Cafe , we have also gotten a few for Texas Roadhouse, Burger King, Little Caesars, an frozen yogurt place, and a couple more.
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