I woke up at 6:30 on my own again...What's happening to me???? Coffee and blueberry pancakes put a smile on my face. The kids all played some more and so far nothing more has been broken. Jeremy went to work again today so he can take Tuesday off to be with us. Jaimie is playing tour guide today. The 6 of us got around and went to the San Francisco Plantation (original name Sans Franco meaning without a penny). It's a big yellow and bright blue mansion with a lot of faux painting throughout. And here I thought faux painting was brought on by HGTV :-) We had a nice tour of the house and history of the estate by a tour guide. A free black man was the original owner of the estate, but the mansion was built by an American-French couple. There was also a 2 room school house and slave quarters that are original, but not to the estate. The school house made me realize that maybe good 'ol RMS isn't so bad after all :-) I might come close to freezing much of the school year, but at least I'm not sweating and feeling claustrophobic while managing teen-aged hormones!!! The whole thing was just a little too long and "boring" for our younens, so we didn't stay nearly as long as I would have liked...such is the story of my life right now. Instead of a picnic at a park we opted to take the picnic back to the house and eat in an air conditioned room. Wylie and Alli tried their hand at eating outside, but quickly came back in when an ant crawled onto her place-the HORROR!!!! After some full bellies it was Routh Family nap time....one of my favorite past times.
There was more playing after waking up and then Jeremy came home to cook us up some dinner. On the menu tonight was blackened red fish, roasted okra from his garden, corn on the cob and Jaimie's strawberry pretzel salad. My family is being quite spoiled in the culinary department. I certainly hope they don't expect this to last. Jeremy and Jon took Wylie, Alli and Cade to get snowballs. We've been hearing about these snowballs for quite some time now and finally got the chance to try one. It's flavored super-fine shaved ice with cream-YUMMY!! They were even nice enough to bring Jaimie and me one home. Flavors of choice tonight were: yellow cake mix, king cake, bubble gum, pink swirl, nectar, and almond. More playing both outside and inside. Cade is a big fan of Uncle Jeremy and had a bit of difficulty leaving him at bed time. After some settling down the kids went down, the adults talked, and another day is done.
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