Two years (and a week) after Elyse and I first went to Panola Mountain State Park to visit the archery range, we went back for the same reason.
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| Elyse made a bullseye! (Which I keep wanting to call "a hole in one") |
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| Here, she is just posing, showing off her form for the camera |
Today we had a (relatively) rare three-inch snowfall! Elyse went out to see it; everybody else mostly just stayed inside. Here are some of the pictures I took (many of them through windows or briefly opened doors) of the event:
Tonight I went to Elyse's band conert at Archer. Here are some of the pictures I took:
This weekend (they flew up yesterday and flew back today) Anna and Elyse went to Chicago to go to the Moonbyul concert!
Elyse is a devotee of K-pop music. When Moonbyul's current concert itinerary did not include Atlanta and Anna offered to take Elyse to a nearby concert location so she could see the show, Elyse jumped at the chance! Here are some of the pictures they texted to me from Chicago:
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| The concert stage! |
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| The concert venue |
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| The church right beside the concert venue |
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| Sunday morning breakfast at Stan's Donuts |
Tonight Anna took Elyse to her first concert! (ARTMS, one of Elyse's favorite K-Pop groups, at the Tabernacle.)
Tonight was Elyse's last Middle-School Band Concert:
(She does plan to continue band in high school, next year at Archer)
Tonight, Elyse went to her school's "Sneaker Ball" (or as I call it, the shoe dance) at Archer High School, the high school she will be attending when she finishes up with middle school. Here's a picture Anna texted to me after she dropped her off:
Today the kids and I went to lunch at Stevi B's, where Elyse met a friend of hers, and then we went next door to Michaels (a store whose name sounds possessive, but doesn't seem to have an apostrophe in it; in other news, yes, I know that nobody but me cares if I get these details right or not), where Gabriel took this picture:
After we left Michaels, we went to KPop Nation Duluth, where Elyse looked around for a while and bought some stuff:
Here are three portraits of Elyse made today by Gabriel, two in Granny and Pa's backyard and one in Granny's craft room.
Today, Anna and Elyse went to see the Sugarloaf Youth Ballet perform "Sleeping Beauty" at the Gas South Theater, at which Anna took this picture of Elyse posing in front of the backdrop they had set up:
This morning Anna and Elyse and I went to the Grayson "Christmas in July" market (J. went to Granny and Pa's house to make cards.) Here are three of the pictures I took there:
Anna and Elyse camped at Stone Mountain, as has become their annual custom, for the past three days. Here are some of the pictures they texted me from their outing:
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| Years ago, when Anna and I used to while away a Saturday afternoon reading on the lawn, we would often get frozen lemonade. They still sell it! |
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| Elyse on the train |
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| This picture and the next show this year's train-ride drama at Pebble Ridge -- which involved dinosaurs escaping and being hunted down. "At least it's different from past years' dramas," Anna texted me. |
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| This is intended to simulate some sort of underwater scene with jellyfish. It just looks creepy to me, but I wasn't there. |
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| "The only thing at the end of this yellow brick road," they told me, "was a bathroom!" |
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| The Laser Show -- which they attended Monday night |
