You can tell that school has started

Sorry to all of my loyal readers and to the smart aleck Gracie down in Houston but you can obviously tell that school has started. I taught my full second week and then went away for the weekend with students and then had another full week of school and finally went to the highland games yesterday, so I have gone two weeks without an update. I will try not to let that happen again. I have so many pictures and stories to tell I will probably do two different blogs. After my second week of school, I was invited by some of the staff to go to a place called Dalguise. It is the former summer home of Beatrix Potter, author of peter rabbit and a small castle. They have turned it into an adventure camp. 23 staff members took 70 students. Our dorms were in the former stables, and were very nice. We had six to a room in bunk beds. On Friday night they had a Mr. and Ms. Dalguise, except that the boys were girls and the girls were guys. Then after a water fight between the students and staff, they got a little sleep. The next day they did things like raft building, ziplineing, rapelling, the giant swing and jacob's ladder. It was fun to watch students overcome fears and do things many of them would not normally do. My personal favorites were zip-lining and the rappelling which I did numerous times. That afternoon, one of the crazy staff members started a huge shaving cream fight which spread all over the courtyard of the dorms. The following day they did more team building and then we finally came home. That was on August 31st, which is also the last night of the festival with a final fireworks show over the castle, so even though Brian and I were tired, we took our families to the show which was one of the best I have ever seen. We were sitting by the orchestra and the castle made for an amazing backdrop. Everyone's favorite was the waterfall effect down the side of the castle. What an amazing three weeks it has already been.

Cheers