Ding! Round two

I have to go to work tomorrow.  Blegh.  I have no urge to go, and I can't imagine I am alone in that.  I suppose that's why we have two days to go in and work before the kids come back.  Yesterday, Cas and I spent our last day in South Carolina.  We went to Sesquicentennial State Park with Jeff and the kids.  It was a pretty fun day.

The park has a GPS based activity that you can do on a cellphone.  It's called Geo Caching.  You use GPS to locate a box or a bag or something, and when you find it, you sign the log book.  There are little trinkets and artifacts people put in the box, and the rule is that you have to add something if you want to remove something.  I had never done this before, and none of us had anything much along, so to retrieve a rubber ducky from the box, Cas and I put in the one thing I was willing to part with- a half a bottle of hotel lotion.  

There was a very pretty lake we walked around, as well. 

The boys each took a turn drawing in the log books at the three different boxes we found before we all headed back downtown for a pizza lunch.  

Just outside the pizza place, there was a rather large statue of a gamecock.  Everything in the city is college mascot themed, and that mascot is, of course, the gamecock.  Apparently, it's the only place any of us can think, of  where it's totally appropriate to shout "Go Cocks!" aloud.  

Jeff, the boys and I all went to get pizza, and after that, we went over to the state house.  It is the very building that made the news last year when protest after protest demanded the removal of a confederate battle flag that flew there.  

The building is beautiful, and we arrived just in time for the last guided tour of the day.  It was very pretty, and the tour gave a pretty half-baked view of the state's history.  She talked about Strom Thurmond and John C. Calhoun, speaking about the great service they provided to the country and to the people of South Carolina.  She failed to mention what huge racist bigots they were.  I guess there are some things you should leave out when you give a tour, but I kind of wanted to make sure the boys got the whole story.  Jeff did, too.  We pulled them aside and mentioned the enormity of the racism.  Still, it was a pretty building.  

Cas and I had a rather uneventful flight home, and Jeanne picked us up from DFW.  When we got back to the house, we watched a very stupid movie and went to sleep very early.  It was a rather large and full day, and sleep was not eluding us at its close.  Today, I went to Mom and Dad's house and spent a little time with Danny taking a ride in his new car.  I also took a second look at the document I may need to use for tomorrow if I have to do any training.  About two weeks ago, I sat down with Brook and talked about teaching a segment for teachers on Google Docs.  I then failed to think about it at all for two weeks.  Blegh.  

Then the second semester comes on Wednesday and it's round two.  We're halfway through the year, which means we're one step closer to summer and the big trip.