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We will be Cancun-bound on a 5:50 am flight Fri ... and Thurs night is going to be a zoo ... so I'm going to sign off now to be sure it gets done!

Ahhh, the Moon Palace. We have been here 2x before, and it is paradise for the way we like to vacation. You won't likely find us running around theme parks or museums, we are beach lovers and use our vacation weeks as total family relaxation time. Not much better place to do that than the Moon Palace ... all inclusive so we put our wallets in the safe when we arrive and don't take them out until we leave, it has the largest swimming pool in Mexico, swim up bars, 10 restaurants, some free watersports for the kids, lounge chairs that sit IN the water in the pool ... and it is supposed to be about 88 degrees there so that sounds great too!

School is out Fri, and then Drew and TJ will miss next week. Our district allows 5 days each year for vacations, and we appreciate that because there is no better way our kids can spend this week than with their family.

I'm not planning to even try and find internet access on vacation, just planning to relax ... so you probably won't see any pics til we return! Enjoy the slide show!

TJ and the traveling team

TJ was so excited to find out yesterday that he will be part of the "Future Turks" 3rd grade boys traveling basketball team! They will play 25-30 games in the next 3 mos or so ... so it looks like we'll be on the go. Most Saturday games are away (Pekin, Morton, Washington, Illini Bluffs, Canton, Danvers) and most Sunday games are at Tremont High School. They have 3 tournaments I think ... Canton, Pekin and Knoxville. He'll miss a couple practices while we are gone, and the first game is Nov 11. Go TJ!

Busy around here, so just a fun post!

Seems we are all burning the candle at both ends around here ... not much time to post or take new pics to share ... so I thought I'd post this just for fun!

Found this on youtube.com totally by accident, it's a one minute street scene from a busy intersection in the city where Abby spent the first 11 months of her life, Zhuzhou City, Hunan ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11EavVXIvms

Brings a smile to my face recalling the crazy driving and relentless traffic in China. Hard to explain how crossing the street is life threatening! :-)

The kids are busy with activities and homework ... especilly Drew as he finishes up his English III term paper (2000 words). TJ is going to try out for the 3rd grade traveling basketball team this Sat, so hopefully we'll have some pics and good news about that soon! They will play 25-30 games all over it sounds like, so more running for the Scott family.

Abby is enjoying her new activity at school ... the Boogie Bus. Once a week she has a half hour dance lesson on an old school bus converted into a dance studio, and it drives up to her preschool for the kids to enjoy. The first few weeks they learned pom pon routines, and now they just switched to tap dancing. They provide all the props and shoes, so it's pretty easy for mom to get her some extra activity during her school day.

Not long before Cancun now ... we are READY!!

Happy Birthday Drew & THS Homecoming

A whirlwind few days here as Drew celebrated his 17th birthday (seventeen!) on Friday ... and then it was also THS Homecoming time! Drew spent many hours over the week helping with the Junior Class homecoming float and getting Student Council activities together, which included getting the gym ready for the dance. Thursday night was a community pep rally and he sang with Madrigals and played with Band ... and then on Fri was the parade. Our band is very casual, so the director let them march in their band t-shirts and hold off wearing uniforms until the game that night. Sat night was the dance, and he is now crashed from his long week! Enjoy the photo show, below, which has some shots of the band in the parade, the float he spent hours on, marching at the game, and Drew and Sarah heading off to the dance!