Spring Break at Cathedral Hill!

Spring Break RULES because there's no school!

On Monday of spring break, Faith and I took a couple kids down to the Capitol to meet with their state senator. She was really nice and took a lot of time to answer our questions, and then we ran into one of the studdy buddies who works at the capitol! It was neat because right after we met with the senator we saw her on the TV in the office- she was on the floor presenting a bill. We asked the kids what they thought happened before TV and they looked kind of confused. I think they also felt kinda cool having talked to someone ten minutes ago who is now on TV.

On Thursday, we had planned to take teens to the Minnesota Museum of Modern Art for an exhibit that used a lot of technology, but it was closed so we took Adriana and Briana to the library instead. A librarian was having toddler time and reading books to a toddler and her mom, and the girls (the funniest twin 11 year-olds you'll ever meet) were totally into it- when "If You're Happy and You Know it" came around the girls were singing, clapping... Then these twin toddler boys showed up- they were maybe 2- and the girls were playing with them and asking them questions. It was awesome. We checked out Bambi Meets Godzilla- a video of some old weird cartoons, and a muppet arts and crafts book. Then we went out to Cossetta's for pizza- it was the best birthday ever!
Adriana and Briana are so great. They laughed and quoted the movie Undercover Brother the whole time- at exactly the same time and with exactly the same motions and evertyhing. Faith and I now know every line without having seen it- but we heard it in stereo! At the end of the trip we walked back to Cathedral Hill and the girls said, "bless you for taking us on this field trip! We had so much fun and thank you!" and if I ever have a bad day in CTEP I will just think of those girls and how I think I should be blessing them.