This morning, we were all up and out the door by 8 a.m. to visit the Hoh Rainforest. We got there at 9:20 and sat in line for about 10 minutes, not too bad. It was really pretty, almost other-worldly with the huge mossy trees, nurse logs. I've read that the Twilight movies were filmed in this area. The weather was sunny and almost too hot! We noticed 2 Dutch families on the trail. I think I heard a woman with a British accent, and there were a few Chinese families there as well. We got home around 1:35 pm. I had lunch and worked on putting out a fire at work. AC is overwhelmed; she has a lot going on at work + leading the statewide professional org + her mother is getting an experimental treatment for cancer and is not responding well and is back in the hospital.
AC asked me to help teacher HG who is teaching one of our course packs this session and wants more exercises for a specific practice. I agree it is very minimal; I don't think I created that exercise, but during the editing process, we were all getting tired by the end (this was the last one), and beefing up this exercise fell through the cracks. I gave her some ideas to expand it using the model essays on hand + the students' own writings. She will come back to this in the morning - but I'm 3 hours behind so I'm not sure I'll be able to respond in time. Before we left for the rainforest, I put out another fire by helping teacher LH understand why she needs to submit a PDF of her session attendance sheet even if some of the students have moved on from the school. We are all tired and vegging right now. The girls have the crockpot going with Chinese (?) beef and broccoli for tonight's dinner.
Dh is researching the mountain hikes to see if we go tomorrow or on Friday en route home. . . .
