Every other year our school sends the teachers to the the Southeastern Christian School Conference in Myrtle Beach and since we’re mostly (fairly) young adults with young children we tend to make it a family affair. So last Wednesday morning we loaded up and headed to Myrtle Beach! The conference was awesome! I was blessed to hear some amazing testimonies from our general assembly speakers, and get some great new classroom ideas during our workshops. While I was attending the conference, the boys got some fabulous Daddy time! They played at the beach, played putt-putt, went for ice cream, got new toys at Bass Pro Shop, and just generally explored Myrtle Beach. They also got to spend some fabulous time playing with their friends. Two of Jesse’s classmates were with us, as well as several other children, and they were all excited to visit each other in the hotel rooms, play on the beach together, go out to eat together, etc.
The school always treats the staff to a faculty dinner while we’re away and this year it was definitely one of the highlights of our trip! Thursday night we attended the Medieval Times dinner and show and it was awesome! The show food was delish and the show was fantastic but the best part for me was watching my boys’ faces during the show! It was a wonderful night!
The boys got new shields and swords and had a grand time battling it out while we waited for the show to begin.
Trey and Jesse would have had a fantastic time no matter what, but they enjoyed it even more because they got to share it with friends.
After the show, Jesse didn’t want anything to do with photos. Trey, on the other hand, couldn’t wait to get his flag signed and his photo taken with our knight and the king!
It was truly a “knight” to remember!
G'ma Gwen always treats the grands (and us Mamas) to a special trip in April. For this year's trip we went with our homeschool 4H club to see Medieval Times in Atlanta on April 12th. Since we were going with 4H on 4H day we got treated to a special behind the scenes tour. It was absolutely awesome! What was even more awesome was the wonderful customer service we received from Medieval Times. G'ma's loaded down suburban pulled out at 9am sharp, in plenty of time to make it to the 2:30 show. Unfortunately, it was not to be for us to make it to the 2:30 show. For some reason, God did not want us to leave Madison, GA, and He blocked every path out of the city until He was ready for us to leave. I don't know why, but I do know that He was protecting us and am very thankful for His protection. Our extra long trip started off very well as we traveled up 441 to Madison and planned to get on I-20 to travel into Lawrenceville. However there was a bad accident or something on the interstate and we didn't even make it a 1/4 of a mile in the 45 minutes or so that we were on the interstate. We turned around and took another road towards Lawrenceville. This time we made it four or five miles before we were once again forced to turn around due to a bad accident or something. At this point, we knew we would never make it on time, so I called Medieval Times and they very graciously changed our part of the reservations (everyone else in our group was already there) to the 5:30 show. When we arrived, they were just starting the behind the scenes tour and they sent someone out to the ticket window to escort us back so that we could take part in the tour. It really was the best part of our trip and I am so thankful that they made sure we got to participate! After our tour, we settled in for the dinner and the show, both of which were fabulous! Although it took us over 7 hours to get to Medieval Times, it was all worth it to see the excitement on the kids' faces! And thankfully, it only took us a little over 3 hours to get home!
