Month: January 2012

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Admin Margaret trip

FLL Regional

Lego is finally over for the year. We have had the Lego field setup kit in our living room since August. This year was our most successful ever. We made it to the regional championship. We won the project award this year as well. The kids project was the Lunch Tockz. It was a little electronic device that monitored time and temperature of food in your lunch box to tell you whether it was save to eat or not. The kids worked really hard. Overall, they did extremely well. At the competitions, they generally only give 1 award to a team. Otherwise, I think that we may have one more than one. The kids did really well in all the presentations (Robot Design, Teamwork, Project).

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Family Katy

Disneyland

There was no snow in Tahoe, so we spent the time after Christmas nearer to home except for a trip for Elizabeth and the kids to visit Cal Poly SLO and UCSB. I met them at Disneyland. We met Samantha there and spent about a day and a half at the park. The first day was split between Disneyland and California Adventure. The Wonderful World of Color was really impressive. Disneyland is an interesting place. They spend a lot of time and money making it the happiest place on earth. We spent a day and a half waiting in lines for rides, but left not thinking that we spent that much time waiting in lines.
Katy had been lobbying to go to Disneyland for a while. She really wanted to get her picture taken with Ariel (Little Mermaid). She had this done years ago, but I guess the 16 year old really needed another picture. Sam had never been (or at least didn’t remember), so it was good that he got to go as well. Margaret didn’t remember a lot about it. A good time was had by all.