The day started off with….what else? Skating. It was Katrine’s last competition of the season. She skated her solo the best she has thus far this season and she is very proud of herself. It has been a rough season and I have to say that I am glad it is drawing to a close. We are keeping our fingers crossed that the high points of a well skated solo and a newly acquired axel are pointing to a better season to come. That is not to say that this season has not had its positives because it has. Katrine has landed all of her single jumps, she passed Preliminary Dance and at least the first part of Preliminary Freeskate; it is just to say that a season without some sort of health issue (last year’s scarlet fever and this year’s concussion) would be greatly appreciated.
After a lunch at the local mall, it was back home to plant a tree. On Friday, Katrine brought home a sapling from school as part of the Stewards of the Earth program. We were asked to plant said sapling and take photos. Apparently, the class which returns that most photos of saplings being planted will get to meet the mayor. This was an exciting prospect so plant we did.
And yes, that is a little wall around the sapling which the girls built. And, being girls, the sapling has a name – ThornyBushTree (or some such thing).
A delicious steak dinner was followed by a family nature walk. The girls watched frogs and birds…
…and then had the requist “sword” fight. Gotta love my girls.
