Monday, August 11, 2008

Week-end Happenings!

I had an awesome week-end. Friday night started off with the comedian, Jeff Dunham, in Sioux Falls. It went a couple of hours, and was super funny. Here are a couple of pictures from the show. We had awesome seats!


After the show, we spent the night at some friends. It was great to be able to see them again, even if it was for a short while, to catch up! On Saturday morning we headed out for Minneapolis. We stopped at Mystic Lake casino on the way into the cities to eat at the amazingly large buffet that they have. It was fantastic. Adam was fortunate enough to even win some cash while playing black jack! From there we headed to our hotel, only to be mesmerized by the Super Target on the way, so of course we had to make a pit stop there. It was the cleanest, most well organized Target I have ever been to. It was just really cool, nothing like the Targets around here. That evening we went to the Melissa Etheridge concert. It was in a small auditorium on the campus of St. Catherine. There were only about a 1000 people there. Adam, once again, got us amazing seats for the concert. It was such a small place that none of the seats would have really been bad, but ours were awesome. She put on a 3 hour show that she was able to tell a story with. She tied all of her songs together and talked a little bit between each one about what they meant to her and it went throughout her life. I had never been to a concert like that before, and it was a great experience. Below are a few of the best pics that we got.



Friday, August 8, 2008

Today will be my third day of new teacher in-service. So far both of the days I have learned some things. I am realizing that there are so many resources that are available to teachers - it is just going to be hard to swim through all of them and decided when and where to use all of them. I am fortunate enough to have a SMART board in my classroom. I am really excited to have this, as the possibilities are really endless with it. Students really enjoy learning with it, so hopefully I can create some exciting and engaging ways to incorporate it into our day.

Tonight Adam and I will be seeing a comedian, Jeff Dunham. After that we are fortunate enough to be able to see our friends Erin and Dan. We will spend the rest of the night with them and then head on out in the morning to another concert - Melissa Etheridge.

I'm definitely starting to feel a little overwhelmed with school starting up real soon and having all of these inservices to be attending. They are a great way to be able to meet some of the other teachers.

We are also pretty disappointed, Nitwits, the comedy club that we went to every week in Sioux Falls, is now closed. We looked forward to our one night of comedy a week, and now we don't have that! Hopefully it can reopen or a similar venue will come along sometime soon.

Now, off for another long day...