Lunch in the garden

Yesterday was our last day of school for the term – we made it! I don’t feel that I was desperate for a holiday, but it’s a welcome break anyway. Actually this last week was quite good, on the whole. Aaron is seeing the letters he’s learned all over the place now and pointing them out to us. Nick took the car in to the garage yesterday morning because there’s been a clunking noise coming out of it, but since the garage didn’t have a loan car, he walked home. After school we all walked to town for bread and to get a DVD for later, and decided to have lunch at Castle Gardens. We bought rolls and chips, to make chip rolls. Got some slush puppies from Sally’s, and sat down on a bench in the garden for a leisurely lunch. It was great – it started drizzling a bit while we were there, but it wasn’t bothersome. The boys found a trail of ants which led into a tree, and were bubbling over with excitement at how many ants there were. Actually I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many ants in one place either – they seemed to have a home in a huge tree, with trails of them diligently scurrying up and down the tree from all sides and trailing quite far around the paths in the garden. Nick spent the afternoon cementing the back wall, canceling the prison ministry due to lack of transport (carrying a guitar down the road would be very hard work). We got the car back during the afternoon, sans the noise.

This afternoon we watched Ice Age 2 together. Nick and I laughed our heads off, but Caleb thought it was too scary and started crying, and eventually left the lounge. No amount of persuading could get him to continue watching. When it was nearly finished he came back to see the happy ending. There is a thread running through the movie of a saber-toothed squirrel and his acorn which keeps on eluding him, which is actually very funny, but Caleb felt sorry for the squirrel all the time. It was just too much for him when all the animals seemed to be drowning during the ice age meltdown!