Our first potato harvest! 100 potatoes

Last week June 6th right before the boys went to swimming school, via the swimming bus. Noboru had wanted us to pull the first 3 potato plants on the left because he said they looked ready compared to the others. I agreed, I thought so too. And also rain was predicted the next day. So, that's what we did. See how these 3 plants on the left look all wilty and the leaves turned color a bit? That's what it says online that means they are ready.

Finally the big day to see what's under there! Hahaha. : ) See how these 3 are indeed all wilty and ready looking. Hope something's under there! : )

Comparing them to the potato plants to the right, who were all nice bright green and not wilty looking. So yeah it was time for those 3 plants to the left, last Thursday.

Hey kiddos! We wanted them to experience the thrill of the dig!

And dig they did! What fun!

I spy with my little eye, a white potato under the dirt! : )

The boys had a blast digging for the potatoes! This made me very happy! : )

We decided to throw away the itty bitty super tiny ones. But the medium and bigger ones we kept.

Noboru enjoying the view and the quiet. Branden meanwhile looking for something.

The potatoes from last week were very good size. They were, fit in your hand size, but really great size. Granted the potatoes we pulled today are giants. Hahaha. : )

This pic was taken from last week showing we had a nice size box from the potatoes we pulled from the 3 plants plus the other 5 plants were not even pulled yet. We had 27 potatoes from last week.  Plus these plants were not even pulled yet.

And now today is Monday here. And because rain is expected all this week... except for today where we live and also a typhoon is expected to come, this Thursday. Granted will the typhoon come? Or will it be downgraded to just tropical storm, ykwim. Truth is, we don't know. But we do know 1 thing, rain should be coming and possible typhoon. So because of that, we decided to just go ahead and pull the rest of the potato plants this morning and that's what we did.

Alright plants, your time has come. : ) You have grown nice and look pretty good, but today is the day. Your number is up! ; )

You know what, we were very happy and thrilled with the size of the potatoes from last Thursday. But Noboru and I were actually a little taken back by the size of the potatoes from today. They were all fist size and up. Bigger then your hand size and up. Barely no puny teeny tiny ones from today. Mostly just very good sized ones to monster sized ones. So yeah wow, the difference Thursday to Monday makes. Wow! : ) The size difference from just letting them sit in the ground for the weekend was quite obvious.

Also, to be fair there were many tiny or small ones we did not keep. I count 13 potatoes from this picture alone. And these ones we did not keep. I told Noboru the small ones, I could cut in half and steam and with a little butter and salt and pepper they'd be great but he thought, we had enough already so....

I count 10 here. Again, we did not keep these. And some of the smaller ones with no defects I did keep, but any with defects we didn't keep.

These are proper/decent bake potato size potatoes. Not bad for our first time, I'd say. : )  I'm glad we were patient and didn't prematurely pull them.

And again these ones we did not keep.  I mean, if you count every teeny tiny potato and small and medium and large. Then yes you can fairly say we grew and harvested 100 potatoes. However, we did not keep 100. The super small ones that were just too small. Some had a few deep pit marks. But the amount of good potatoes were kept were 70. 70 good sized potatoes. Not counting the super tiny ones or pitted ones or throw away ones or defected ones. We're talking 70 nice sized ones that we can use. And 30 either too small or too pitted to make anything usable out of. : ) And I'd say 70 usable potatoes are pretty great, considering we only used 3 potatoes to end up with all these.

Don't forget the first batch we pulled from last Thursday. Plus this huge overflowing batch from today. : )

Anyway that was our first time experience with growing potatoes.

Making ume jam from scratch

Yesterday, June 6th, 2013. Was another cooking day for Noah. Ume are in season right now in Japan. And if you're not living in Japan and are curious what they are, they're fruit and I'll link here right now and you can read about them here. Noah and the rest of his class had to show up yesterday, with an apron, a head scarf and a mask. Noah was very excited about making homemade ume jam all week.  On Wednesday his teacher brought a huge crate/box of them. And Noah kept saying, "we are getting ready for jam!" So a very excited 2nd grader. : )  And if you remember from when we decorated Christmas cakes last year, Noah does have the matching chef's hat to go with the apron. But, you know, I know kids do have a tendency to want to wear what their classmates do etc. Ykwim. And so since all of his class wears the head scarves and Branden does in his class also. So, I did give Noah a choice yesterday morning. I asked him, would you like to wear your matching chef hat that goes with your apron or would you like to wear a head scarf. Noah picked the head scarf, yellow head scarf. And that's more then fine. I understand no kid wants to stick out and wear big puffy chef hat while all his classmates are wearing head scarves. : )  I get it..I totally do. So head scarf it was. I packed this all up nicely and they left to school yesterday.

And when I picked both of the boys yesterday up at 3pm after school. A beaming Noah came running down the hill into my car, with this in hand. A small tupperware type plastic container wrapped inside a plastic bag, to make sure no possible spillage happens here. : )

This says Noah. Yes this is Noah's homemade from scratch ume jam that he and his classmates/friends made with their amazingly cool teacher. Everyone got to bring this amount home. We all had it with fresh bakery bread this morning, toasted with a little bit of butter first and then a nice spread of this jam on after. And it's so good! Sweet but with a little bit of tartness in there. : )

These are what ume look like. Anyway, that's what Noah did yesterday at school, he made ume jam from scratch. : ) 

Our weekend. Going to the movies to see Oblivion, stocking up on meat and baby back ribs, hanging with good friends and potato and zucchini update

June 1st, 2013 our family went to the movies to see Oblivion. The first day of the month is 1,000 yen all day long and evening for anyone. So that's *the day* to go if you want to see a movie around here where we live. : )  I had went and purchased the tickets and picked our seats, oh geeze what day did I do that? The day the boys had observation day. That was Wednesday, I think. In America seats are first come first serve. But for the most part, in Japan you get to pick your seat. However, when we went to Narita to see that movie last month. Iron Man 3 with my friends the first show was free seating/meaning no reserving seats. So that was new to me, as far as going to a movie in Japan with no seat reserving. I'm fine either way though. Both ways are normal to me now. : )

Stadium seating. The movies are very clean. The screen rolls back when the movie starts making the screen even bigger. The movie was pretty packed. Well, about 30 people, so packed for Japan. When we went to see Iron Man 3, for Mother's Day in Guam, about 98% full movie theater about 150 people in there. But then again for $5 a lot of people will come. A lot of people did come for the 1,000 yen movie day also too though. 30 is a good amount here. : )

A happy Noah, waiting for the movie to begin.

A smiling happy Branden too. : )  About the movie. It was a good movie, I'd say a 7 out of 10. Would I go out and buy the DVD? No. Would I watch this again in an airplane? Umm, no. But it wasn't bad at all though either. It was enjoyable. Our type of movie. Kept all of our attention. We all talked about it afterwards. It was a wonderful way to spend a Saturday afternoon as a family.

We caught the 12:25pm showing. And after we got out of the movie, it was near 2:30pm Meanwhile, the sale starts at 3pm at the cheap meat store. And the cheap meat store is right across from the movie theater. So we had the plan to go and get some meat after the movie and that's what we did. We got in the car, left the movie theater parking lot and parked across the street, closer to the store. And went inside and grabbed a cart. People were buying and picking meat already, but they have to wait to get the 20% off sticker at 3pm. So, we grabbed our cart and hit the meat aisle. We picked marinated miso pork this is absolutely delicious here. That's what the boys and I had Saturday night for supper. Noboru wanted that pork stir fry thing, he loves from here. Noboru had that Saturday night for dinner. We also picked 2 pork roasts, 1 pack of chicken tenders/chicken tenderloins. 2 packs of chicken breasts, 1 pack of thigh meat, and 3 racks of pork ribs. We love baby backs anyway, but plus 20% off. Heck yeah! So we quickly put the 3 racks of ribs into the basket. We now made a line and waited until 3pm on the nose. At 3pm, those who were in line were given 20% off stickers and then we checked out. And it does make our weekly meat bill much cheaper. It's all fresh meat, delicious meat we'd buy anyways, just 20% off though. So a great deal for us. : )

Potato update yet again. The potato plants are starting to look all wilty this week. As you know they did not look like this last week. However it says online, they are supposed to look like this. So, I am remaining calm. Also the rainy season has supposedly started. So we know we will pull them but we want them to have their proper growing time also. So, we just don't want to pull them prematurely, likewise we don't want to wait too late either though. But we are watching and checking them daily though.

Zucchini are growing by leaps and bounds. : )

I'm thinking we'll have zucchini ready this week some time. : ) Yay. Also at the back of my mind, I am thinking what we should plant in the place/space of the potatoes, after they get pulled.  Anyway that's also on my mind too.

Sunday, I baked a cake. Made chili concarne. You know Texas style chili beans. : )  I also did laundry, both Branden and Noah's gym clothes, red and white hat, just a regular full load.  Meanwhile Sunday the boys played.

If you are a kid,and you live in this housing community, this is the house to be! : ) I'm seriously not pulling your leg. We had a full load of kiddos out there, Sunday! They love hanging here. And it's not because we have a huge playground outside. We don't even let the kids from the neighborhood in the backyard much anymore. They just love being here plain and simple. I'm nice, the kids all know me, they all like me. They all love playing with Branden and Noah. And they're all good kids and good friends. So yeah place to have their kid meetings and hang? Our house. Hahaha. : )  Two girls and the rest all boys. Tons of boys! : )

They had the biggest game of kori oni yesterday. This was like a kori oni marathon yesterday. They were running all over, the safe spot, where you want to touch and be safe! That was our front porch! ha! : )

A-chan in the pink in this pic. She is the Jinbei boy's sister, 5th grade sister. She is so pretty. She's so nice. She always chats with me. Always. She also likes to play tennis, her and her brother playing with Branden and Noah during the week also, but Sunday they didn't play tennis.  Since it was their kori oni marathon day.: ) For those of you not in Japan, kori oni is sorta like tag. There is 1 person who is "it" and there is a base to be safe. So sorta like tag. : )

And today, Monday, it was traffic safety and the day to greet the kids walking to school. So the bright side is now I'm done for the year with that. Hahaha. : )  Phew. : ) Anyway that's what we we were up to around here this weekend. : )

Anything else to add? Branden and all the 6th graders are cleaning the school pool today. Also, Branden is making dessert sandwiches this Wednesday. So he needs to bring chocolate sauce and bread, the thin sliced bread with no crusts. I bought the chocolate sauce already and will buy the bread tomorrow. : )  Alrighty, that's all for now. : )

Branden and Noah's class observation day

Wednesday May 29th, 2013 was Branden and Noah's class observation day at our local/town elementary school. It was an "you can go any time of day" type one. My favorite types of observation day versus a "go to the last class" type. We also would be having a disaster/emergency drill where all kids were expected to have a parent there with them show up and walk them all the way home, however the non stop rain, in the afternoon cancelled the walking home part. : ) I'll get to that part later. But for now, let's start at the beginning. Noboru and I walked up the hill and into the school. Everyone who is supposed to be there, needs a name tag. We have 2 for our family. Checked in, took off our shoes and put on the school slippers. Went to Noah's class. This is Noah's artwork. Their class went and picked wild flowers and misc. flowers on the school grounds and made these. The teacher shrink wrapped these or however you wanna call it, so they'll be able to save these which is pretty cool of his teacher to do that for the class. : )

The kids were doing this clapping type game with hand gestures. Goes with a song. It was cute to watch.

Aha, last year in first grade they had their birthday train. But this year they have animals of some sort. I was thinking this was a fat dinosaur at first? Then thought maybe some strange type of turtle? Or reptile?  Aww well. : ) These are the July birthday kiddos. Noah's 7/7 of course. : )

Creating stuff! Use your imagination. : )  Noah's sensei told the class to make an obento/packed lunch. They could bring supplies from home, though she brought the disposable obento boxes herself for the class. This is what Noah made. And I was out of tiny obento American flags, the day I packed up some stuff for Noah. : )

In Japanese schools you don't wear regular shoes inside the school. So your regular shoes/street shoes. You put in your appointed shoe box. This is Noah's. It says Noah. His regular sneakers are on the bottom of his shoe box, in this pic. And the smaller second tier is where his inside shoes go, the shoes he wears inside the building. Anyway thought that might be interesting for those of you not in Japan. : )

For 1 whole year, this will be displayed, in the main hall for everyone to see. This is who won the marathon back in December 2012. If you came in 1st-3rd place your name will be on here. I erased everyone's name for privacy, but I left Noah's first name on there. Noah's name is on here under first grade boys, so the top line. His name in on the top line, far right. Noah came in 3rd place.

2 short seconds separate Noah and the one who won 2nd place as you can see here... 4 minutes 26 seconds versus Noah's 4 minutes 28 seconds.  Yes, the race was *that* close! It was a close race last year. It will be interesting to see everybody run this year again. Me, I'm personally not interested in running, nice leisurely walks? You betcha. But, I'm just glad the boys, both of them excel at what they both are interested in and are good at and most importantly have fun with it. As long as they have fun, doesn't mater what place they finish. : ) Branden meanwhile is gearing up for the upcoming swimming season at school.  He wants to compete for his school against the other schools. As long as they enjoy the sport they're doing and have good sportsmanship whether win or lose. And be kind. Then that's good. : )

10 minute break between class. So the kids run outside and get fresh air. Get all their extra energy out.

Noah went to hang around with 2 of his pals.

Aha! I have been spotted! I had told Noah I was going upstairs and honest, I was ...it's just I decided to run outside and take a few pics first. : )

Everyone in Branden's class were asked to write a paper about something that interested them personally. So, Branden wrote his on swimming. Swimming at elementary school. What you need. the do's and the don'ts. A few drawings. He also took a poll. How many in his class like swimming, 17 for what it's worth. : ) And 5 don't care for swimming. : ) Branden drew pics of goggles and swimming cap, towel, card that your parents stamp daily or whenever, swim trunks, saying this is what you need. : ) Meanwhile the drawings on the bottom right, is a pool, lockers, showers, etc. Their teacher shrink wrapped this too. Because just like Noah's flowers and art project up above, I can save this for Branden also for when both of the boys grow up and they can look through these things I saved for them and smile. :)

This is on the wall outside of Branden's class, this says, Home Ec/cooking practice. Stir frying (side dishes for breakfast) At our school all grades cook. And all grades garden/plant food. Remember last year Branden's grade planted rice and harvested it. This year for example Noah's class is growing veggies, they all voted in Noah's class what to cook from it and then it has already been decided that before Summer break their 2nd grade class will make vegetable curry from the vegetables they grew with their own hands! That is very cool, if you think about it. : ) Meanwhile, Branden's class last week made, a light stir fried salad. The girls made scrambled eggs. And the class all made rice, they had a breakfast meal last week. All kids learn how to properly hold knives, proper ways to cut and peel and dice/cut veggies. How to wash rice. Scramble eggs.  To grow something and respect a seedling watch it grow daily, watering it, caring for it, then harvesting it and right down to cleaning it, chopping it and making a curry from it, they learn a respect for where their food comes from, I know I've said it before but our school never ceases to amaze me and impress me. I love our country school. These "real" life skills our school teaches are awesome. Oh and this is not to be confused with the "cooking club" because our school also has a cooking club, and sewing club etc also, besides sewing in regular class time, hahaha. : ) And yes, they do have regular core classes, math, science, English etc and a wonderful computer lab and such.

Branden and the" jinbei boy" making the breakfast salad side dish for their class. They are such good friends and his mom is super nice. : )  Our school has a very big cooking room with many stoves and whatnot. Dishes, pans. Both Branden and Noah have so much fun at their elementary school. : )

This was another use your imagination assignment Branden had. His teacher gave the class assignment. She asked them last month. What is your favorite place in the whole school. Branden told me, she let the class go walk all over and decide what their favorite place was. Branden told me, 1 boy picked way back high up near the bushes, facing the school and field and playground. When the class each decided, she told them, now you go ahead and draw your favorite place and then paint it! The kids felt really inspired Branden said and so on the wall outside Branden' class there were painted pictures displayed from every one's own point of view,  no two were alike....what each and every one of them considered their favorite spot at the school! They all had a different spot from their classmates. Branden's pic right here is of the gym. I whited out the 2 kanji from our last name. And the white paper above Branden's picture, says...my favorite part of the school. : )  Can't believe this is Branden's last year here at the elementary school.

Math class. I know you're thinking only 9 kids? Not that having 9 kids wouldn't be uncommon. But we have about 22 or so in Branden's class. Anyway, at our school our math class is separated by level. I know, I have girl friends/fellow mom friends in Japan who say their school doesn't separate by ability level. Meaning all kids whether they are top or lower/needing a bit more help level or medium all have to be lumped in 1 class, gosh that sounds frustrating for the teachers and kids. Our schools a bit odd/unusual (in a good way), as you know. : ) Math class for Branden's grade for example. They have 3 math classes. Highest math level, medium/regular level math level, lowest math level/just kids needing a bit more extra attention and I'm sure they'll get it. : ) And the kids don't compare or tease or even mention who is in which class. It's a non issue for them. And I'm glad they're like that at our school. Since there are two 6th grade classes, first they combine both classes then splitting directly in half by level. But there are also a few spare teachers at our school, and they go wherever needed. So the math class is broken in half by level and then they do have a remedial class for kids who need a bit of extra attention on top of that, which that makes 3 math classes total for Branden's grade for example, and both 6th grade classes combine and then they split by level. So every time they have math they split into 3 classes and they know who is in what class and they quietly walk to that class. Also if you improve you can switch to another class if your teacher okay's/approves it. And also that way the struggling kids get the extra attention they need without worrying if the "kids ahead" will be rolling their eyes type thing if they keep raising their hand again and again, if they don't get it.... you know what I mean. So this is a safe way, they break up math here at our school.... so only kids who are in similar levels and won't be nervous about not "getting it" if they don't. And the kids who are ahead or on track don't get bored to death waiting for their classmates to catch up. So in that way I like that math for example is broken in 3 classes by level. Noah's grade breaks up math class also, it seems to be a thing our school likes to do.. That way the kids who are ready to move on, can move on and the kids who'd like time to practice a bit more, can get the extra practice.

Branden and Akira sitting next to each other. And the girl behind Branden is one of the girls, who gave him a Valentine's treat. : )

So after math class, I pop downstairs in Noah's for about 10 minutes before leaving to go and buy our movie tickets for Saturday. The kids were deciding on who was to read which part. They would be putting on a performance later that day for the last class. Good thing, I went back into Noah's class before leaving that morning, because I made a mental note of it and reminded myself to come back for Noah's last class. Noah's talking with his good friend K-kun in the gray long sleeve, "what part would you like to read...I'd like to read this line...okay and I'd like to read this line/sentence" type chatter going on in the classroom. K-kun's grandma is super nice by the way. : )

Noah's really diplomatic and sits in the center and writes down who wants to say which part and makes sure it's all fair. : ) Goodness these kids are great. The boy with the book in his arms, in the long sleeve teal colored shirt (it was a bit chilly that day) anyway he's an identical twin. That's pretty cool, I think. We have 2 sets of identical twins at our school. 1 girl set (3rd or 4th grade). And this set who are boys. : ) The boy in the white T shirt. : ) Bless his heart. You know most of Noah's classmates have gotten over the whole..."omg your mother is western" or..."omg your mother is American" but a few still will get this gobsmacked look, every once in a while and just stare. I'm used to it, so I'll just smile and talk to them.  Thank goodness Branden's classmates got over it well over a few years ago and now don't even think twice about me being different. Now I'm just normal in Branden's class. Just a mom. But as you can see from this pic, a few of Noah's classmates are still trying very hard to over come their shock. Hahaha. : )  Oh dear. : )  You can just see by his expression he must be thinking something like...."but she just doesn't look like the other mom's" @_@ That's really getting to him. And yes I know I don't look like the other mom's...  but on the bright side....I am still nice like the other mom's. I can talk with them and joke with them like the other mom's. But still....this little boy just feels awfully unsure what to make of me. : ) Hahaha. : ) Aw well. He'll get over it eventually, I know it. : ) 90%-95% are fine with me now. : )

The vegetables the class are growing, information about them is on the wall. The 2nd graders are all about the gardening right now. Noah's totally talking about his plant daily. At dinner time...it's vegetables this and my bell pepper plant that. Even at bed time...Noah will ask..."what do you think my bell pepper plant is doing right now mama?" "I'm pretty sure, he's sleeping, Noah, just like you will be doing soon... so you go to sleep soon sweetheart, now sweet dreams, I love you." : )

More vegetable motivation on the wall. Hahaha. The kids had a choice to grow, mini tomatoes, bell pepper, edamame and 1 more choice. Last week Noah came home and said he needed a gardening stick, so I had to run to the local DIY and buy a gardening stick for about 80 yen and he trekked it to school the next day. : ) Noah and Sera are both growing their own bell peppers. So any info on bell peppers they get they share it with each other. : )

Now the group was practicing their lines. And so I left, waved good bye to Noah and left. Next stop, movie theater to buy tickets for Saturday.

Tickets bought. Seats already picked. Ran home, heated the leftover curry up and ate that for lunch with Noboru. We then went back to the school. This trip to the school now we took separate cars this time. Because Noboru would be leaving around 2:30pm for work. Meanwhile I was staying for the whole last class and the disaster drill stuff.

Now they're second graders! Yay! : )

And now the big presentation. This was the last class. Noboru went and watched Branden's last class, gym, and I meanwhile stood here and watched Noah's presentation.

The one in red and white was speaking....

And now the cutie patootie boy who is a twin was speaking on the left of Noah.

I can tell the boy was almost done and I can tell by Noah's expression he was getting ready to speak and probably had his line running through his head at this time. Oh yes, I almost forgot, the forecast said rain was expected that day. And it did rain a sprinkle here or there but not much. However after buying the movie tickets it started really coming down hard. It rained super hard. By the time we got to the school the walking home part of the drill had been cancelled. But the drill was still on.

See these colored flags with grades written on them. 1 for first grade 2 for second grade and so on. And if you have multiple kids. Our school wants you to line up with the youngest child first collect said child then go to the older sibling line/lane. So, I crouched in the 2nd grade line next to Noah. My good friend Adele was working and so she couldn't be there. Her daughter was lined up behind us, so I gave her 5. And chit chatted with her. I know if the shoe were on the other foot, my friend, she would have done the same for Noah. I didn't want her to feel alone. So we 3 chatted until the teacher came. At that point we stood when it was our turn. She said, "who are you?" Clearly it's obvious, but it's protocol. I said "I'm Noah's mom." Then she turns to Noah and says is this your mom? He says yes and she smiles and we leave to Branden's line. And for the record she did this to all other parents too. I now hear Branden's teacher running through the same questions to the folks in front of us, "is this your mom...who are you "etc etc etc. Same spiel, we just heard in Noah's line. Then it's our turn. Who are you she asks? I'm Branden's mom, I said. : ) Is this your mom she asks Branden. (I'm an impostor or clone I thought quietly and cheekily to myself) but again be serious. Ahem serious. : )Branden says...yes. And so we leave. She smiles and waves us good bye. See the principal on our way out, greet and head bow him. He does the same and we leave. hahaha. This picture is blurry. I'm not sure why, I thought I made a full stop when I took this.

This pic is blurry also. Sorry about that. But we left, we switched our shoes to regular shoes and by now it was raining buckets...raining cats and dogs. So we ran down the hill and into my tiny red car and drove home. It was a fun day, I was most certainly glad I was there to enjoy seeing what the boys are doing in school. And whatnot. I don't think I sat down once that day....well unless you count the drive to and from the school and to the movie theater. When we got home, we all switched clothes. I immediately took my makeup off with a cleansing wipe. I hate the feel of makeup on my face and I don't wear a lot on days I actually wear it anyway. Put my hair in a pony tail and wore house shorts/sweat shorts type thing and a long sleeve T. And started in on dinner.  Noboru did call me later and told me to tell Branden he rocked it in gym class. And I mentioned it to Branden and he just laughed. : )  All in all, both the boys were glad we were both there and that we could spend a nice long amount of time in each of their classes. I'm 90% sure we'll have our July/Summer observation day coming. Gee, I hope it's a "free" type/come any time of day type.

Anything else to add? Nope not really, I did have my big health check yesterday. I went in first thing in the morning and I left around 10:50am and was home by 11:30am. So, I'm glad I went and got it over with. Now I'll just wait for the results to be mailed back to the house. My results last year were everything was pretty normal. No health issues at all. No high blood pressure. No high level of sugar in my body. Breast check and female exams came out just fine, blood tests, everything was spot on. Fit as a fiddle, as we say. : ) And this year looks about the same. Every nurse and doctor, mentioned to me yesterday though maybe they shouldn't say so, I don't know....but they did all mention...looks good. So, I think all is well. But of course I'll just wait for the paperwork to get here. And the barium was just as horrible as I remember from last year hahaha. : )  Anyway...I have the boys swim towels out back drying as I type and a load of clothes outside drying too. Today is luckily not rainy. But it's windy. I am so glad today is Friday, I am looking forward to the weekend. And for the movie tomorrow afternoon. : )  Have a great weekend everyone. : )