Hi there!

Beaver had this past Monday and Tuesday off, Monday for Patriot's Day and Tuesday for some teacher work day thing. On Monday we went out to the marathon, where I counted the first thousand male runners just for fun. :-)

Yesterday I had a pleasant surprise when I signed into Blogger and found, to my delight, an offer to join the Gmail beta-testing. What is Gmail, you ask. It's a new Google-powered free email that gives you ONE GIGABYTE of storage! Yippee! It's really cool.

Yesterday was also the Beaver Spring Concert. Congratulations to everyone involved (especially the middle schoolers, who I actually know)!

The whole 8th grade leaves for Washington D.C. this Monday, where we'll be for a week. We have to get to school at 5:30 in the morning, and it's a 10-hour bus ride! Since time flies when you're having fun, we have a really "fun" event planned: watching Schindler's List!

(That was a joke, by the way.)

We've watched a little in History class, but we haven't had time to finish it -- it's over 3 hours long! (Of course, with our 10-hour bus ride we could watch it three times and still have time to spare.) It's just about the least "fun" movie I've ever seen.

Random coincidence: we're watching a Liam Neeson movie in both History and Science. In History we're watching the aforementioned Schindler's List, and in history we're watching the PBS series Evolution, narrated by Liam Neeson.

Random Rosie Comment of the Day:
She loves playing with all her doggy friends! Casey, who's a black lab in our neighborhood, is one of her best friends; she also enjoyed play-time with fellow golden retriever Dante while at the marathon.