Swing, batter, batter....

Take me out to the SOFTball game! Hubby has organized a little softball game after work today for anyone who wants to play. I'm looking forward to playing 3rd base and hopefully not striking out! Watching the women's Olympic softball team has been inspiring. All the Oylmpic athletes are just awesome! We have totally enjoyed watching the Olympics with the boys. Some of the sports, like badminton, have really surprised us. Badminton? An Olympic sport? Come on.... We did enjoy watching Great Britain and China's mixed pairs compete for gold - it just seems a little strange that badminton is such a big deal! Our family enjoys swatting the birdie in our back yard, but we'd never considered training our boys with the hopes of an Olympic gold medal in the fierce sport of badminton!

Yesterday we watched the American women's swim team win the 400M relay. We found out that a friend of ours in Fort Worth, Texas swims with Dana Vollmer, and that connection made the Olympics much more personal for our family. We watched them win the gold AND break the world record! 3 Cheers for the USA swim teams! And what about Michael Phelps??!! Ain't he somethin'?

We were planning to watch the Changing of the Guard today at the Royal Palace but instead my oldest son got a call from a friend to go fishing! I knew he really wanted to go fishing so we postponed our little field trip to the palace.

I made a school calendar and penciled in field trips and holidays. Somewhere I heard about "Field Trip Fridays" and decided that would work well for us. There are places around Stockholm that I want us to see before we leave and scheduling them into our calendar will help us get it accomplished. I think we'll do our morning work on Friday's, have lunch and then take off on a field trip. Most of the places we hope to visit have cheap entrance fees. On the schedule so far are places like Skansen (the world's oldest outdoor museum), a music museum, an aquarium, the Royal Armoury and Gripsholm Castle.

Have a good weekend!
Marla