Our first week of summer break started off fast and furious as we attended the Rhubarb Festival, another graduation party, cleaned out Ben's old classroom, Ben visited his new school, went to the beach, Joanna went to a surprise 40th birthday party, saw a fire truck parade, went to two more graduation parties, and canned jam/froze some strawberries. Whew, I am already worn out thinking about it all.
One of Ben's coworkers told him about the Lanesboro Rhubarb Festival, so we drove through beautiful bluff country and enjoyed all things rhubarb: songs, games, treats, taste testing, and rhubarb itself. They have a rhubarb run, but we were too late to register for it. Next year, we plan on running.
The second counselor in the YM Presidency with Ben is a fire chief (or something more than just a fire fighter) at one of the stations in town. He told Ben about a fire truck parade they were having to celebrate Rochester's 150 years of fire stations. It was pretty neat. They had some really old fire trucks that had simple step ladders to the new airport fire truck that looked like a tank. After the parade they lined them up on the street and people could walk around or see how they work, etc. One of them even turned on their hose that shoots up high and let people run underneath to cool off. It was pretty fun, and the perfect thing to do on a sweltering Saturday morning.
And, of course, it wouldn't be right to not do canning on the hottest day of the year. Aldi had good priced strawberries, so I bought 2 flats and Ben and I stayed up late canning jam and freezing them.
2 comments:
Brian thinks it's weird that I always want to stick my head in those cut out things. I think it's weird that he had never done that before we got married.
Looks like a great, if busy, start to your summer. Frozen strawberry jam is the best, and definitely worth the staying up late making.
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