Rhiannon started Intermediate school in September (grades 6,7,8) and she's loving it.
It was quite a change for her and her friends going from a very small school to a much bigger one where they have to change classrooms for lessons, have several different teachers and wonder of wonders LOCKERS, oh, she was so excited about the locker, I think that's the main reason she was so looking forward to moving schools lol!
She's still in French Immersion and basically all of the 5th graders from her old school are now together in the one class which I am sure helped make the transition easier.
Rhi's joined all sorts of clubs including Cross-Country and they've been practicing runs at recess, the meet for their grade was yesterday and DH and I and went along as volunteers, it was early and cold cold cold!
There were 10 Grade 6 kids running for our school and what looked like a million kids from other schools lol! One of our girls finished 11th and will go on to Board finals next week, one of the boys finished in the top 20 and the others were all around the 90's or 100's. Rhi was 112 with her friend K just behind at 113. That's more or less where they finished last year,neither of them are speed merchants but they enjoy doing it and as K says "I like cross-country because you know there's pretty much always going to be someone slower than you are" lol!
Yesterday was a big day for Miss Rhi, she's been saving up for ages to buy a Wii Fit, and after we picked up the money for some dress-up costumes we sold at a consignment store last week, she finally had enough money, so we went shopping :)
Since then we have basically been in the basement playing with it - it's lots of fun!!
What else? well Curling season has started, only Guy and Rhi are curling this year,our long standing partners for Mixed (Rhi's godparents) are not playing this year and I have to work more so can't play with the Day Ladies, so I just took a Social membership for this year (which is also a lot cheaper!) Guy's already played a few games and Little Rocks starts today.
The job hunt still continues for DH and I. He has joined some friends working on a start-up company that they hope will be eligible for some government funding at some point, although things are on hold there for the moment as one partner's wife has just been diagnosed with breast cancer and the other partner is involved in a legal wrangle over her house renovations - a mess!
Autumn is here, the trees are gorgeous, we're about to close up the pool for the winter and Rhi is planning her Halloween costume, she wants to be a Night Elf Hunter this year (her character from World of Warcraft)she more or less has the costume together, she and DH are working on making a bow and Rhi is going to use the rest of her saved up money to buy a genuine pair of Night Elf ears:
http://www.buycostumes.com/World-of-Warcraft-Night-Elf-Prosthetic-Latex-Kit/34174/ProductDetail.aspx - They look very tall and I think she may have a problem going under low structures with them on lol!
