{"id":3222,"date":"2014-08-11T21:20:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T02:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/?p=3222"},"modified":"2014-08-11T21:20:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T02:20:07","slug":"day-4-quiet-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/?p=3222","title":{"rendered":"Day 4: Quiet Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s already Day 4?\u00a0 The day was rainy to start.\u00a0 That was a carryover from last night as well.\u00a0 It stormed pretty good here.\u00a0 I know I woke up in the middle of the night with thunder and lighting.\u00a0 I was sure the kids heard and woke up.\u00a0 But no, I was the only kid who woke up.\u00a0 Rich woke up once because the sump pump wasn\u2019t turning off.\u00a0 There was that much rain.<\/p>\n

My alarm went off pretty early.\u00a0 Yeah, I was going to work today.\u00a0 Rich and Rick were in charge.\u00a0 It\u2019s not as scary as it might sound.\u00a0 The kids got up around 7:30 or so.\u00a0 I think we might be getting them trained.\u00a0 After deciding what to have or not to have for breakfast, Rich packed up the lot and headed down to the river with them.\u00a0 Rick got up a little bit later and followed soon after.<\/p>\n

Since I was working, I didn\u2019t get a firsthand account of the fishing.\u00a0 We also don\u2019t have pictures to prove the stories I got.\u00a0 I guess the count is now 1 fish a piece for Bel, Sophia, and Cael.\u00a0 Just to be different, Rich caught two turtles.\u00a0 No fish.\u00a0 I guess that would be too easy, right?<\/p>\n

So with fishing under their belts for the day, it was time to head out on the next adventure.\u00a0 Rich and Rick packed up the carload and off to Rockford they went.\u00a0 That\u2019s Rockford, IL.\u00a0 The Burpee Museum houses some nice exhibits and has the next best dinosaur in the area.\u00a0 Her name is Jane.\u00a0 She had been living in the basement over the last few years.\u00a0 Recently, Jane got promoted to the upper floors.<\/p>\n

Turns out, Jane is an adolescent and not a full grown female.\u00a0 From the kids\u2019 perspective, she is only a little older than themselves.\u00a0 She is more like some of their cousins then.\u00a0 If I had to guess, I\u2019d say she is probably about the age of Erica.\u00a0 Maybe they should have called her Erica, right?<\/p>\n

So the group toured the museum and took in the sights.\u00a0 I guess there were fluorescent rocks that everyone examined.\u00a0 The kids decided the primitive Indian exhibit was lame.\u00a0 They\u2019ve seen better.\u00a0 You know how this generation is today.\u00a0 Always have seen better.\u00a0 Sounds like Cael has an interesting pronunciation for museum.\u00a0 I gather is it something along the line of mooseum.\u00a0 The joke I heard was that it was dedicated to cows or something.<\/p>\n

Lunchtime was at one of Rich\u2019s old favorites in the area.\u00a0 They went into Beef-a-Roo.\u00a0 The ordering was difficult to get correct, but it sounds like they only had to take a couple of things back for correction.\u00a0 Now the kids can say that they\u2019ve eaten at Uncle Rich\u2019s favorite place.<\/p>\n

Then it was time for the return trip home.\u00a0 Between here and Rockford, there is a lot of farm land.\u00a0 Yesterday, we saw a lot of horses.\u00a0 Today, I bet they saw a lot of cows.\u00a0 Probably smelled a lot of cows also.\u00a0 Back at the house, everyone was tired, except for the kids.\u00a0 Can you believe it?\u00a0 They actually had to find something to do all by themselves.<\/p>\n

Since the rain had washed the driveway clean, it was time to take chalk and go back out to decorate that plain black space again.\u00a0 There were a couple of rainbows.\u00a0 Another butterfly was drawn.\u00a0 The pictures were colorful and filled in the spaces where each kid was setting.<\/p>\n

Since it was warm, I got out the sprinkler for them to try out.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t get to do this last year because the weather didn\u2019t cooperate.\u00a0 It was a straightline sprinkler with lots of wriggling lines throwing water everywhere.\u00a0 I enjoyed the little sunshine peeking through the clouds as kids were screaming and running around wet.\u00a0 Then it was decided that they had had enough.<\/p>\n

After getting dressed, we got Rick out of his room to cook the burgers for dinner.\u00a0 He\u2019s a pretty good cook.\u00a0 Bel likes to give him a hard time.\u00a0 She\u2019s good at it, too.\u00a0 Dinner was a little of this and a little of that to go with the burgers.\u00a0 Green Kool-aid was the drink of choice tonight.\u00a0 Thanks for picking that out, Sophia.<\/p>\n

Everyone scraped their plates and we loaded up the dishwasher.\u00a0 That is right after Sascha finished with prewash.\u00a0 Then it was time for Bel to go down and practice guitar with Uncle Rich.\u00a0 She\u2019s getting lessons on finger practice.\u00a0 It takes a while to stretch out those fingers to run up and down the fret board.\u00a0 She already has her wish list for things that she needs.\u00a0 Those all sounds like good Christmas gifts.<\/p>\n

So the evening is young, but all the adults are still tired.\u00a0 It\u2019s hot outside.\u00a0 We might just have to opt for watching a movie or two and hanging out.\u00a0 Maybe there is popcorn in the near future to go with that movie.\u00a0 Sascha says yes since that\u2019s her favorite treat.<\/p>\n

I forgot to mention that the kids are getting to be pretty good travelers.\u00a0 They\u2019ve been through 4 states in 3 days and one foreign city.\u00a0 They left Michigan on Friday.\u00a0 That took them through Indiana.\u00a0 They arrived in Illinois.\u00a0 They went to Wisconsin on Sunday.\u00a0 Technically, the Ren Faire is supposed to take place in Bristol, England and not Bristol, WI.\u00a0 Can you count time travel?\u00a0 The Ren Faire takes place in 1601.\u00a0 Uncle Rich says 1599 just so he can say, \u201cParty like its 1599!\u201d<\/p>\n

As I\u2019m writing this up, I hear Led Zeppelin come on the speakers downstairs.\u00a0 I think the kids are getting a lesson is early rock and roll to go with the guitar lesson.\u00a0 That\u2019s good.\u00a0 Uncle Rich has a wealth of music history knowledge that he likes to share.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure we\u2019ll be hearing one of everything soon.<\/p>\n

It stormed for a while and then it all passed. \u00a0We went outside to see the clouds moving on and the sun lighting up everything.<\/p>\n

\"Evening<\/a>
Evening sky with clouds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Sun<\/a>
Sun going down after the storm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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