pretty good weekend

Well, after a shaky start on Saturday, we managed to have some fun this weekend.  Aly wasn't feeling well on Saturday morning.  We were supposed to meet some new friends close to the beach, but she was feeling sick to her stomach.  After a couple of hours she was feeling better.  I didn't want to impose after canceling the beach plans, so we came up with option B.  Jacksonville is a funky little city with lots of things going on.  This farmers market/art fair runs every Saturday during the summer.  It is all under the highway bridge in the pics above...what a cool idea!  Aly was proudly wearing her new "got proton?" t-shirt.  Gotta love that girl!  We had a lady come up to us and tell us the story about her niece that went through proton therapy.  An artist also offered Aly a cool piece of art if she would have her picture taken and be "kid of the day" on his Facebook page.  I will get the link on Facebook when he gets her picture on there.  I think we will need to build an addition on Aly's room for all the special gifts she has received.  We saw lots of cool stuff and enjoyed just walking around.
The weather has turned overcast and it looks like it will be that way for most of this week.  It is still supposed to be in the lower 80's.  Today it was really windy and not so pleasant, so we decided to go to the science and history museum.  For Aly's social studies homework, she is supposed to learn about the native americans that settled in Florida, so I thought that'd be a good place to start.  Of course, once we got back home I asked what she'd learned about them and she kind of shrugged her shoulders.  Good thing I took notes!  :)  Aly said, "there's always the internet."  Kids these days!  If they only knew what research used to mean!  Anyways, she seems to enjoy art and museums.  Her favorite part was a fake dig for dinosaur bones.  There was, what looked like, a sandbox and kids could take paint brushes and brush off fake dinosaur remains.  Aly said she'd like to have a job like that. 
Now we're back to Monday, more treatments and not so much fun.  My goal is to get Aly to do some school work in the mornings...wish me luck!