Seriously?

On Thursday of this past week, I was scheduled to be a driver on the 2nd grade field trip to the Georgia Aquarium. Christian was VERY excited about this field trip! Since I was single parent for the week, I had gotten everything ready and planned to leave on time. I was also scheduled to take 3 other children with us in my car. The only thing I wanted to do was stop by Starbucks on the way to the school. I figured if I was going to drive 4 children to downtown Atlanta at 8am in the morning, that I at least deserved some coffee. We got in the car (on time!) and pulled out of the driveway. We were even a little early! As I was riding down our road, I thought to myself, "Hmmm... something does not feel right...". I got out of the car and sure enough, I had a flat tire! UGH! I called Scot (who was in training, but still in town) to get him to help me. He said no, to call my dad. (Since this is a family blog, I won't tell you my response or my thought to that). I called my dad and had to get him out of the shower. I think he cut himself shaving :( I felt bad. He had to race over to me and get the other two children and took them to school. Christian and I raced to Burt Brooks Tire and had to buy a new tire because that one was a goner.

My good friend Deidra met us at her office and we were on our way to Atlanta. We actually made it there on time!

We had lots of fun looking (and petting) the various aquatic creatures there and finally it was time to go. I had promised Christian that he could get 1 souvenir. He spent an inordinate time in the gift shop choosing. Finally, he walked over and showed me "Grow your own aquatic creature". I thought, sure, why not? It's probably one of those dried sponge things that you stick in water and it grows. So, we bought it. Imagine my surprise (and horror) to discover that no, it's living horseshoe crab creatures. UGH! So, now, I have a little aquarium full of potential horseshoe crabs. Yuck. I just hope they hatch or he's going to be devastated. This is not my strength. I kill fish because I do something wrong. We'll see how it goes. In the next few days, we could potentially have 9 horseshoe crab additions to our family...

Overall, it was a very interesting day.