We just had a really great weekend to start the fall (yeah, fall starts a little late in Austin).
Friday morning I went to school early for my run club. Run club is an activity sponsored by our PE coach at my school on Friday mornings to encourage kids to run. They play fun music while we run laps and get lots of encouragement. Then at the end we get to record how far we've gone each week. Each week I've been increasing the number of laps I've run by one. I did six last week, so my goal was seven this week. To help encourage me, Dad came with me and we ran together. We beat our goal and did eight laps! That's
two miles! I wasn't too tired when we were done, by Dad looked a little sweaty. He was happy to be able to get a workout in before going to work. Plus, we both had a great time spending time together in the morning.
Friday night, we watched Kentucky's first basketball game of the year. It was fun to watch again, and we got to stay up late.
Kentucky won. Yay!
Saturday morning was a really special occasion. It was Hazel's consecration ceremony, which marks the formal beginning of her Jewish education (even though she was in kindergarten Sunday school last year).
Here's the post about mine last year. We all went to cheer her on. They called her up, mentioned her Hebrew name,
Chasya Bina (protected and wise), and gave her her own little Torah. We were very proud of her.
After the consecration ceremony, we went to
Fiesta Texas to celebrate. We had gotten free tickets from
Dad's company picnic there last month. We were excited to go on all the rides again. When we first got there, Mom, Hazel, and Turner went on the
kids' swings. Since there were three of them, Mom sat with Turner, and Hazel sat with a bigger girl. She talked the girl's ear off on the ride.
Then Dad took all us kids on the
Ferris wheel where we got a great view of the whole park. Then Mom took Turner and Hazel on some dizzy rides - the
Wave Runner and the
Hustler. I got to pick the next ride, so I picked some rides in the kids section - the
Kiddee Koaster,
ZoomJets, and
Buckarooz. After that, we split up for a bit. Hazel and Dad went on some more grown-up rides, like the 200 foot tall
Sky Screamer and the 35mph
Road Runner Express. Dad liked that. Mom, me, and Turner stuck with more kids rides. It was a long day, and we were all pretty tired heading home.
Sunday my Cub Scout Den went on a hike. Dad was leading the hike for the den, and Mom, Hazel, and Turner came along. All of us had a lot of fun, splashing through water and mud, finding fossils and little stone, and climbing up big rocks.
I can't wait to see what we do next weekend!
