Of the last five weeks of school only ONE has been a full week. The other four? Truncated by...
First day/half day
Labor Day
Rosh Hashanah
Yom Kippur
It is one of those Chicago North Shore things that surprises me every fall. Public Schools are closed for Jewish holidays. This four day week could become a nice habit. I love having a day during the week to play with my girls, explore Chicago, or go on an adventure. It makes me wish we could take a day every week to do our own hands on education. Who knows, maybe we could?
Last Monday was Rosh Hashanah. We did the town. The girls and I spent the whole day in the city mostly exploring The Field Museum which is Chicago's Museum of Natural History (and home to the most complete TRex in the world!). I didn't take many pictures. Think rocks, mummies, giant sloths, wooly mammoths, stuffed mammals brought to Chicago for the 1893 World's Fair, and dinosaurs, dinosaurs, dinosaurs.
Today, in what the girls declared "needs to be our Yom Kippur tradition"
we did the country. We drove an hour North to the Illinois-Wisconsin state line to a beautiful apple orchard that was lush with ripe apples. This farm was not an overpriced prepackaged "experience of the country" for city people (no hayrides, no corn maze, no cotton candy, no frills). With a humble sign and a few retirees handing out bags and collecting cash this orchard was delightfully simple.
Rynn climbed trees.
Eleanor ate multiple apples trying to make her two very loose front teeth fall out.
We played lacrosse with the apple picking sticks and apples.
Is it a bird? A plane?
No! A flying apple!!!!
We stopped in a cornfield just to stop in a cornfield.
Lots and lots of dried dead corn from the draught last summer.
Statues of Cornity
Farmstands
Candy Apples and Cider Donuts
A mighty fine Yom Kippur.
