i like my men like i like my lemonade, strong and fruity!
Tomorrow I go to the Renaissance Faire the first time this season, which for me shows the true arrival of fall. Screw the leaves turning pretty colors and the air getting colder and the sky getting darker at an earlier time, the true signifier of fall is the Renne Faire. Good god, this summer was over quickly. I feel that I shouldn't give up the summer until at least the end of September, but I think I follow school year summers because I work at a school and haven't quite given up childhood yet.
Speaking of which, at the actual end of summer, I held an Avatar the Last Airbender-themed party with my school-aged children, since I'd gotten them slowly but irrevocably fixated on A:TLA all through the whole summer. We had nation-themed games like water tag for water, fire crawl obstacle course for fire, and a ball game for air. I also arranged a treasure hunt with four groups: each group was assigned a nation, and I hid five clues and the symbol for the nation around the classroom. They weren't allowed to find clues out of order. The first group to find their symbol first won. (Water won! HEE.)
Now, I hadn't planned this or told them to do it, but the kids got all into their Avatar party, and most of them came in costume. They made their own costumes at home, and arrived dressed up in motley clothing and strange hairstyles as the characters. We had face-painted Zukos, an Aang in a black and red tracksuit and a red sweatband as Fire Nation school Aang, a SHOCKINGLY good Katara costume and her little brother in a Sokka outfit, a Mai, a Meng, an Azula, a Ty Lee, and another Aang. Also unprompted, one pair of kids brought fruit candy canes and marshmallows for Air food. (This made sense to them, okay? I guess since Aang is on a constant sugar high, it makes sense to me too.)
For snack food, I got food for each nation, too. For Water, I had beef jerky and nori seaweed strips. For Fire, I had barbecue-flavored potato chips that I put in a bowl labeled 'fire flakes'. For Earth, I had multicolored rock candy, or 'genemite'. For Air, there was iced tea (we're not allowed to have hot tea), and marshmallows. The whole thing was really fun, and if anyone has kids who are into A:TLA, I definitely endorse the party theme. There's just a lot you can do based on the show.
Anyway, on a more serious, but still gleeful note, DADT was declared unconstitutional by federal judge Virginia Phillips. Here's hoping we can see that repealed.
Speaking of which, at the actual end of summer, I held an Avatar the Last Airbender-themed party with my school-aged children, since I'd gotten them slowly but irrevocably fixated on A:TLA all through the whole summer. We had nation-themed games like water tag for water, fire crawl obstacle course for fire, and a ball game for air. I also arranged a treasure hunt with four groups: each group was assigned a nation, and I hid five clues and the symbol for the nation around the classroom. They weren't allowed to find clues out of order. The first group to find their symbol first won. (Water won! HEE.)
Now, I hadn't planned this or told them to do it, but the kids got all into their Avatar party, and most of them came in costume. They made their own costumes at home, and arrived dressed up in motley clothing and strange hairstyles as the characters. We had face-painted Zukos, an Aang in a black and red tracksuit and a red sweatband as Fire Nation school Aang, a SHOCKINGLY good Katara costume and her little brother in a Sokka outfit, a Mai, a Meng, an Azula, a Ty Lee, and another Aang. Also unprompted, one pair of kids brought fruit candy canes and marshmallows for Air food. (This made sense to them, okay? I guess since Aang is on a constant sugar high, it makes sense to me too.)
For snack food, I got food for each nation, too. For Water, I had beef jerky and nori seaweed strips. For Fire, I had barbecue-flavored potato chips that I put in a bowl labeled 'fire flakes'. For Earth, I had multicolored rock candy, or 'genemite'. For Air, there was iced tea (we're not allowed to have hot tea), and marshmallows. The whole thing was really fun, and if anyone has kids who are into A:TLA, I definitely endorse the party theme. There's just a lot you can do based on the show.
Anyway, on a more serious, but still gleeful note, DADT was declared unconstitutional by federal judge Virginia Phillips. Here's hoping we can see that repealed.