Back for a Breath
Oct 8th, 2008 by Alicia
We’re back just for the night and then heading out again tomorrow!
We had a great little trip. Daryl taught lots of people lots of stuff about the atlatl — so much so that he nearly lost his voice by the end of the session today. 
He also really wrecked his legs from standing too long and is in pretty extreme pain, poor guy. I know he enjoyed helping out though, and he taught so many people so much fascinating stuff.
The kids and I did some exploring while Daddy did that and managed to have some fun, learn some things and enjoy some wonderful weather (and some dreary weather!).
Stops included: the St. Peter Pearly Gates and Chamber of Commerce, a lovely natural food coop with a hot deli (we loaded up with plates of hot, homemade cuisine from around the world), the Sioux Treaty Site, the St. Peter library, The Tree-mendous Park, McDonalds playland, a Chinese-Japanese buffet run by a lovely family with a brand new baby, the Minnesota River and a few stops at parks and such along the way.
Tomorrow Daryl is teaching 70 middle schoolers about the atlatl, by special request of a teacher bringing his students on a field trip to the Petroglyphs. After that we’re heading to Grandma and Grandpa’s again to take part in History Fest. Daryl and the girls are dressing up in period clothes for the Betsy-Tacy Society again and they’ve made up period games and all sorts of good stuff.
Grandma wants to go shopping with me and the boys. I like the sounds of that!
We’ll be back Saturday night but I may be able to check in from the in-laws’.
Now I have to unpack and pack again. So much for this school-at-home thing the kids keep pushing for. We have to be home to pull it off!
