Five for Friday....Oh NO! It's almost over

OH NO!

Vacation is almost over....

I picked up my school keys yesterday....

felt a little panic creep into my thoughts.....

It's time to link with Doodle Bugs Teaching! The place where the curriculum is organized and every teacher knows what they are doing, I need to live in that dream world for a little while.

Here we go!

My five for Friday consists mostly of things I did when I visited family in the lower 48.

ONE

While in Oklahoma we visited the Tiger Safari Park in Tuttle!

It is an awesome place!

I highly recommend it to anyone loving animal parks. We were allowed to hold some of the animals such as the Eurasian Eagle Owl, it was breathtaking. The park host was very specific on how to hold them and helped us get our pictures.

We also stayed overnight at a Safari Hut and that was fun. It was decorated in an African theme and the AC worked great, which is so important in July, in Oklahoma!

If you live in Oklahoma or are planning a trip that takes you through the Tuttle area, you should really check it out. Call ahead.

TWO

We got the opportunity to walk through this old historic building, it's not open to the public, the current owner was kind enough to allow us inside. Most of my family worked in this building at one time or another. It was an orphanage when my parents were in grade school and later a nursing home. I washed dishes in the kitchen, did housekeeping and for a very short time, was a nurse's aid. I discovered that nursing was NOT my thing.

Walking around inside and talking about old memories was fun.

THREE

My husband got a 4 wheeler recently and the grand kids love it! Grandpa doesn't mind giving rides either.

FOUR

Our yard is growing like crazy!

It's the last hurrah of summer for us.

FIVE

We have lived in Alaska 17 years and I still have things stored in my dad's garage! I went through a lot of it and either threw it away, gave it away or mailed it to myself.

There are still 3 tubs left.

This summer was also the year to look through old pictures, I brought home many of them. Pictures of great, great, great grandparents, uncles, cousins.

It's nice to have a history.

I spent a small fortune mailing boxes to myself.....

Now how does ones organize all this great history??

I'll have to Pinterest it.

My next post will most likely contain  teacher stuff.

The return date to school looms closer.

Later,

Paula