Barbara Thompson

Thursday, November 10, 2022 We went to see Woodbury High School’s production of Anything Goes tonight. I enjoyed it thoroughly. None of my current students were in it, but I recognized lots of kids from having had them at Woodbury Middle. It was great fun to see the whole cast tap dancing to close out […]

Wednesday, November 9, 2022 Glass class #2! Tonight, we weren’t just using the blast furnaces to heat our glass – the glory holes were on, too. They are smaller ovens that we can use to reheat or keep our glass hot. What a relief over last week when we had to go so fast! Everything

Tuesday, November 8, 2022 I was riding the Hulk rollercoaster over the weekend, and as I counted inversions (there are 7) (I always have counted, it’s pretty intense) I wondered when I would be too old to ride roller coasters. I looked around as I got off – Keith and I were by far the

Monday, November 6, 2022 I woke up at 3:30am with the hurting heel thing that I have sometimes. I lay in bed wondering how I was going to hobble to the park before 7am, wait until it opened at 8am, hobble to Hagrid, hobble back to the hotel to check out before 11, then back

Sunday, November 6, 2022 We got up at 6:30 and were out the door by 7:20, walking toward the early opening (one hour early for hotel guests – 8am). We got stopped on the path for quite a while as people had to go through metal detector security. We made it into the crowd waiting

Saturday, November 5, 2022 In August, a friend was texting me questions as he navigated his family’s vacation here. It put it in my mind that we haven’t been there for quite a while. I mentioned it to Keith. He said we had a Delta free companion ticket that we needed to use. So we

Friday, November 4, 2022 I was really looking forward to work today, because the boys’ soccer (football!) team was playing for the state championship at US Bank Stadium (home of the Vikings) at 10:15am. That meant most of the kids would not be at school for most of the day. Wheeeeee. Since the 9th graders

Thursday, November 3, 2022 Four big trees in the cul-de-sac got the notice this afternoon that they are going to be taken down. I want to say they are getting the ax, but it just seems too mean. It’s a very pleasant surprise that the city is taking them down and we are not paying

Wednesday, November 2, 2022 We started glass class tonight. I had so much fun making a paper weight that I was interested in doing more, or at least doing that again. I investigated and discovered a 6-week glass blowing 1 class. Each class is three hours long and based on learning to do, not necessarily

November 1, 2022 Keith and I have watched Halloween competition shows in years past – cake makers and chocolateers and punkin carvers create amazing tableaus in 6 or 7 minutes (oh, hours..). Impressed with the punkin carvers, and knowing Keith has been an expert punkin carver since long before everyone had cool tools and premade