Summer Break: Week 8

I was family-less last week! Paul was on PTO and is again this week, and I'm not, so he took the girls (and at the last minute, their friend) to Crescent Bar. I was really looking forward to having some alone time to work on all the projects I never have time for. Unfortunately, between working, errands and chores like watering plants, cleaning the litter box, etc, I STILL didn't have much time for anything else. I managed a blog post on Monday, and some consignment sale prep on Tuesday but that's about it. I really wanted to do some scrapbooking and some organizing but it just didn't happen. But it was nice having the house to myself all week, and having it still be clean when I got home from work everyday!

Friday after work I packed up and joined them at Crescent Bar.

Some other friends went over on Thursday and stayed until today at the campground across the street. We all went in together to rent a pontoon boat for the afternoon. We went the "the Dune", a big sandbar that is a popular hangout spot for Crescent Bar vacationers. Then we did some tubing. Really fun.

Today we came home and now we're watching the first Seahawk pre-season game, which they are winning, 41-17 at the moment. Whoo-hoo!

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