1. The kids enjoyed playing arcade games for an hour followed by 50 minutes of laser tag and 10 minutes in the trampoline park at Kaos last Thursday. I enjoyed being able to chat with Tab while our kids played.
2. The swimming pool we belong to opened on June 5. We made our first appearance for the year on June 7. On June 5 we went swimming at another pool because it was free to swim there that day and they have water slides and a diving board whereas our pool only has a diving board. Oliver really wanted to go down those water slides so we went to that pool that day. I sat in the shade of an umbrella. I thought I would get in the water because the air temperature was in the low 90's, but the water temperature was too cold for me to want to get in. Oliver had gone swimming twice in our neighbor's pool in April/May, but now we will be swimming on an almost daily basis.
3. The Methodist church closest to our home had a summer kick off event on June 5. The boys enjoyed the inflatables and The Bug Man. The kids and I enjoyed eating a free dinner there.
4. On Sunday we streamed the 9AM service in our van while driving to pick up Pop Pop. Then the six of us drove to Reading for the Mid Atlantic Air Museum's annual WWII show. We had planned to go last year as we had been studying WWII, but naturally the event was cancelled last year. The contrast in the weather between that weekend and the previous weekend when we were in Buffalo couldn't have been more stark. It was in the 40's and raining in Buffalo, and the next weekend it was in the 90's and sunny. Personally in early June in Pennsylvania and New York I expect something in between those two extremes. Thankfully they had a mister you could walk through. Nadia and Oliver spent enough time in there to be drenched multiple times, but it was so hot out they dried out very quickly. If it wasn't SO hot out, I think we would have spent more time than we did at the event. Fifty different aircraft from WWII took to the air. We also watched a Pacific theater weapons demonstration, a French village skirmish, a flamethrower demonstration which was part of an Iwo Jima reenactment, and a European theatre battle. In addition to a wide variety of aircraft there were many other military vehicles, encampments, speakers, singers, etc. The adult tickets were a bit pricey and it's two hours from our house, which means I doubt we'll return, but it was definitely worth attending once, especially since Paul really enjoys military history. It was the first time in quite awhile we went on an outing with Pop Pop. He had been cautious due to COVID. Now that he's fully vaccinated and Grandma is no longer with us, we should be able to see him more often than we did over the last 17 months.
5. On our way back to his house on Sunday, we picked up pizza from Palermo's. We ate it at Pop Pop's house. It was delicious! It was our first time in his house in 2021, and we were only there once in 2020 due to COVID. His sister, Marlene, helped a lot with cleaning, purging, organizing, and donating things last month. Ian remarked that it was sad to be in the house knowing we won't see Grandma there again. I remember him making the same comment in the fall of 2016 when we visited my Dad for the first time after my mom passed away. We brought some things home that Pop Pop doesn't need such as a sewing machine, electronic keyboard, Mousetrap game, and some of Grandma's earrings for Nadia. The boys have had fun playing the keyboard the last few days. Nadia and Oliver both want me to teach them to use the sewing machine.
6. Nadia has been attending "Bible Bowl boot camp" from 9-12 every day (M-F) this week at the coach's house. I took her on Monday and will take her again today. Tab took her and picked her up on Tuesday, and a mom who also has a son in Bible Bowl took her and picked her up yesterday. I'm thankful for all the volunteers who work with the kids on the Bible quizzing teams. Next week they're headed to Oklahoma!
7. Paul and I got our second Pfizer shots this week. Thankfully Paul had no side effects. I definitely cannot say the same. The last time I got a flu shot (quite a few years ago) I became sick after I got the shot, and since then I have declined all flu shots. I did fine with the first Pfizer shot - just a sore arm plus a little tired. I got the second shot at 10:00am on Monday, and I crawled into bed around 8:00pm with a fever. I was in bed for almost 34 hours straight. I wish I could have at least felt well enough to read, but most of the time my head was throbbing too much that I couldn't sleep or read but could only lie in bed with my eyes closed. I had most of the possible side effects - very bad headache, the highest fever I've had as an adult, chills, joint pain, nausea, diarrhea, and exhaustion. The fever lasted for 24 hours I was shaking violently when the fever was the highest. I wish I had taken my temperature as I'm curious as to how high it got. I'm guessing it was at least 104 because when the Tylenol had kicked in and I felt somewhat better and was able to come down and get a thermometer, my temperature was 102. If they offer a booster shot for the COVID vaccine next year, I am planning on declining it. Hopefully there won't be any more pandemics in my lifetime. It was about 100 years in between the Spanish influenza and COVID-19. I'm also hoping that we didn't make the wrong choice when we agreed to get this vaccine. Paul and I feel like we volunteered to be guinea pigs in the world's largest clinical trial. I'm praying that down the road there aren't negative consequences for having gotten this vaccine such as an autoimmune disease. At least we will soon be able to say we are fully vaccinated and won't have to wear masks.
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