This was a busy end of the week and weekend. Izabel joined a bowling league with a couple of her friends. I was invited to attend a fundraiser for the Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition (website click here). It was an interesting evening with a terrific key note speaker; plus I got to get some miniature golf in. They produce a book for prisoners with resources to help when they are released. This is a good thing.
Izabel attended a few online clubs to sample what ones she likes. They are part of the K12 national/international program that powers her school. This week she had the Virtual Field Trip Club, they visited the ocean, and the Lego Club.
On Saturday we visited a Celtic harvest festival in Edgewater. They had a group called The Renaissance Scots, Irish music, wolf hounds (weighing in at 150#), and puppet shows. Seamus tried on a few wool Irish caps and looked very handsome in them, and we found a little calligraphy thing with his name on it, spelled correctly. Talking with the artist she has a grandson names Seamus. The kids really enjoyed the festival.
On Sunday Izabel's choir had their first performance of the year. Next month they have a regular performance and a performance at a benefit for Children's Hospital. Then we joined her potential new 4-H club the Llofty Llamas for a hike. Izabel does not need a llama to join the group but many of the members do have a llama or two. We were down in Monument which is a little north of Colorado Springs. It was a short hike for us but we had fun hiking on llama time. It is not everyday you get to hike with a pack of llamas.
Oh, and what was the first thing our new llama friends asked us? Do we really own a ferret and can we bring him to a meeting and do a presentation about caring for our ferret friends. This, of course, sparked Izabel to talk about ferrets for about 30 minutes non-stop.
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| That little white dot is Izabel reenacting Picket's charge at Gettysburg. (Mom used to have my brothers do that to run off energy when they toured Gettysburg - I did not fall for the trick). |
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| Izabel attending the Virtual Field Trip Club Meeting |
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| Izabel attending the Lego Club. |
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| Seamus has fun at the park by his school. |
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| Seamus enjoying a puppet show. |
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| Izabel enjoys the puppet show, Matt not so much. |
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| Irish dancers |
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| It is a harvest festival after all. |
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| Scots discussing strategies for loading their trailers; no joke that is what they were talking about. |
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| Seamus practices his fencing. |
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| I couldn't help myself. |
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| The sheep and I came to an understanding. |
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| Izabel's choir performs for the first time this season. |
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| The hike begins. This is Monument Rock in Monument, CO. |
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| Trying to get the llama to sample the water. |
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| Izabel has the orange pack on. |
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| Okay this llama didn't mind the water. |
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| Apparently, this used to be a nursery for the National Park Service. Here we are walking through the windbreaks for the old nursery. |
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| Beautiful day for a hike. |
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| Llamas taking a food break before being loaded back up. |
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