San Diego - Friday

Ben had to work Friday but he got off just in time to go to Riverside, CA (about 2 hours away) and we spent the evening with my brother and his beautiful family!




This was my first time to meet Noah and Julianna, and Noah only wanted to play with Ben! It broke my heart but it was cute to see them playing together. Ben was awesome with Noah. They had a really good time. So I just enjoyed cuddling with Julianna!







After dinner, we just sat and chatted. It was so good to see them! I love you guys!

San Diego - Saturday

On Saturday, Ben took me downtown for the Red Bull Air Race. It was incredible! We watched these planes fly 20 feet above the water at 250 mph and go through this obstacle course on the Bay. I took some video but I can't get it to load onto my blog properly...





The air race was about 6 hours and then Ben took me to a fantastic dinner downtown. What a great day!

San Diego - Sunday

Sunday afternoon, Ben and I headed to Pacific beach to watch the sunset. It was absolutely beautiful so I'm going to just let the pictures speak for themselves!









What a perfect way to end a pretty perfect weekend in California...

Facts About Mozart...

So this year I have a composer featured every month with a bulletin board dedicated to that composer. Each day in music we staple a fact to our board and go over the previous facts. Well August was a short month and we learned about Mozart. At the end of the month, I ask the students to write down two facts about Mozart. My kids got pretty mixed up on this one.

Below are the real Mozart facts followed by some student answers. I thought some were pretty funny, especially considering they all knew the facts when asked to review them out loud!

THE FACTS:
Mozart was born January 27, 1756.
He was born in Salzburg, Austria.
Mozart started to compose music around the age of 3.
Mozart wrote more than 40 symphonies.

Student Answers:
"we now [know] his brday [birthday]
"happy birthday"
"Mozart was born in 1978. Mozart was plaing the peanow."
"January 4, 1997"
"Mozart [wrote] 8 sinphones when he was 3."
"He was born in Zalsalzburg. He was a famas music righter"
"Mozart born in Austina...he play music"
"Slazebr Astrich January 26, 1852"
"He had long hair"
"He has a whig"

Hopefully next month, we'll do a little better! ha! Gotta love 'em!