Lunch date

Today I had lunch with my favorite cutie-patootie, A, and 17 of his closest friends. I volunteer in A's kindergarten class every other Wednesday morning and today was my day at school. The class goes to lunch immediately following my scheduled time, so I told A that I would stay today and have lunch with him. What an experience.

A is permitted to buy his lunch two days each week and today was a buy lunch day. There are three choices each day, and I told A that he could choose for both of us. So I lined up with the class, by lunch choice, and marched in to get my cheese pizza and peas. A and his classmates showed me where to get my tray, fork and napkin, and then how to move down the line. I followed them to the assigned table for the class and sat down to "enjoy" lunch in less than 25 minutes.

"Bedlam" is the only word that comes to close to describing the atmosphere in the cafeteria! It seemed as though every child in the room was talking at the same time and my child was one of the ones doing the most talking. The five children sitting around me competed to talk with me and I now know more about hair bows, fishing, coloring, jump rope and playing "bad guys" than I ever thought I would know. Or ever cared to know.

Despite the noise, I was impressed that most of the children stayed in their seats, ate a good part of their meals, and followed directions. The staff know how to keep the students on task with only minor aberrations. And once again, I am thankful that I do not spend more than a few hours every other week in an elementary school!

Into the wild blue yonder

On Sunday we went to The Great Georgia Air Show in Peachtree City. What fun! J's parents came into town to go with us - J's dad is quite fond of air shows. It was a gorgeous day, about 80 degrees Fahrenheit and a clear blue sky.

The event was very well run; we parked in a satellite parking area and then rode a school bus to Falcon Field, and there were no traffic congestion problems either at arrival or departure. I struck up a conversation on the bus ride back with a couple from Cleveland; he was wearing a Cleveland Indians' cap so we enjoyed a good conversation about the series with Boston. Go Tribe!

There were many airplanes and since this is not my subject of expertise, I won't even try to detail which ones were there...but it was great fun looking at them. J's mom stayed with our chairs as the rest of us wandered around, oohing and ahhing and peeking into those airplanes that we could access. A enjoyed climbing into the cockpit of an airplane - unfortunately, we did not note which type it was, although J thinks it was a Warhawk. Here is a photo of A and a new flygirl friend:


I particularly enjoyed the performances by he Talon Eagles from Red Eagle Air Sports and the AeroShell Aerobatic Team, and flybys from a World Airlines MD11 and the Delta Air Lines' pink Boeing 757, aka the Delta Pink Plane. I also bought a Delta Force for Global Good t-shirt, which benefits The Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

We were there about five hours in total, so we were tired and a bit sunburned when we left, but a great time was had by all.