Lydia and Andrea

hi mom!
how are you?
i'm pretty good but once again pooped from a day at safety town. it was actually pretty nice this morning since it rained last night and was cloudy, but this afternoon was a SCORCHER. booooooo .... i'm slathering on the sunscreen. this week garrett starts summer school, so he can't work at safety town, so i have to drive all the way from columbus to get to the school in the morning, instead of driving from garrett's parents house (a difference of five minute commute and a half hour commute). i have to get up wayyyyy early just to get there on time so its kind of a harsh way to start the day. lucky for me i either knew people who worked there before or have made friends last week so i'm not bored without garrett there. he says his swahili class is going to be okay, except the class is held every day for an hour and fourty five minutes, so i can imagine that will be a little trying. hopefully my e-mail makes sense, i'm pretty tired (can you tell???) anyway today i finished making all the graduation caps for the kids for next friday (safety town has its own graduation ceremony). garrett started the project last week adn it was up to me to finish in my spare time. i had to staple little chinstraps of elastic onto pre-made paper caps so that all 175 wouldnt fall off during the ceremony. it was pretty tedious but it was a chance to be inside in the AC for a while, its nice to have done, and i like to help garrett's mom when i can since she's all stressed out with other things. nothing else major really i guess, today was learning about Stranger Danger with a magician, who wasnt really all that good, all he did was the hankerchief trick (where you take 5 separate hankerchiefs and put them in a hat and they come otu as one) and the coin trick (where you pull it out from little kids' ears) but he DID keep all the 5 year olds entertained for a half hour which was pretty amazing. anyways its 8:42 and almost itme for my bed time! yay! i'm looking forward to that!how is everything at home? did the barbeque go well at grandma's? good biking weather? anyone call the house dying to hire me at a wonderful job? :) :)
miss you a lot!
love
andrea

hi mom!
how're you?
i just wanted to write and make sure you knew i was alive! i talked to david for a minute after i got back to butler, but i didnt' know if you got the message or not. how's the BIC tent doing? any holes? do we know who our drivers are for RAGBRAI this year? well my drive to butler went pretty well, except for one part. i was just driving along minding my own business, when this flock of birds flew across my path in the road, and one was sort of flying lower than the others and swerved upward to try and miss my car but instead flew STRAIGHT into my bike.... even when i'm not riding it my bike is deadly to small animals!!! i was traumatized, poor little birdy. but right after i saw the weinermobile driving down the road in the other direction, so that made me feel a little better. the weather was very pleasant the whole drive - i'm glad i left when i did, although i think it had been raining recently in indianapolis so that might also have been why it was so cool. i got back to butler before andrea dell, and i was 1/2 way through getting my boxes out of her room when she got there.... caught!! but she didnt care. anyway its good to see her again and catch up on the stuff that she's done since 3 weeks ago. well i'm off to eat some lunch and maybe mow the lawn. unless its still damp outside (i havent looked too closely out the window yet) and then i guess i'll have to wait!miss you already!
love
andrea