Summer Break-The End

 Our Utah/Idaho vacation was a bit of a whirlwind vacation, but was lots of fun. The drive home was uneventful. We saw the dino at the gas station by highway 20. Megan actually took a nap (maybe another kid or two, did, too). 

Saturday Megan had her Synchro dress rehearsal, then we brought her team home with us to celebrate Megan's birthday.

Megan's synchro team did great swimming to Girls Just Want to Have Fun. She had a great time and loved synchro, her friends, and her coaches.

The week after we got back from our trip Rachel had band camp from 8am to 5pm M-F. Since she was working on learning to drive, she drove one morning, but didn't notice or register what the gas light meant, so when I got in the car to drive home and saw "0 miles to empty" I was a little worried that I would be stranded on the side of the road, so went the other direction, where Safeway was less than a mile away, and made it thankfully. I filled up our supposed 18 gallon tank with 18.6 gallons of gas. 

As band booster treasurer I spent a good bit of time that week at band camp helping out. Megan came one day to help out briefly and hung out watching the band practice from the stands.

They usually would march first thing in the morning, which in July is still blazing hot, then come in around 9:30 or 10 for a snack/sun break, before heading back out to the heat for another hour. After lunch they mostly stayed inside working on music and other stuff so they wouldn't die of heat stroke.

At the end of the week the band performed their music to show a little bit of what they'd learned that week.

Ryan finished off his city swim team experience with a couple more meets. Rachel did not participate in swim team after we got back from our trip since she was busy with band and such. 

At city championships he swam the butterfly, freestyle and breast stroke. I think he placed 3rd in butterfly, and, since he's at the younger end of the age group (11-12), next year he'll do even better. 

Megan had one last primary activity before school started, a pool party at the Johnson's house, where she had lots of fun with friends. She was disappointed when primary activities split into an older and a younger group since most of her friends were in the older group, but she persevered and had fun anyway. And they ended up having a lot of combined activities anyway.

With summer wrapping up, the kids were ready to head back to school (or maybe not ready, but ready or not, here it came).