Maximum Productivity

If I’m going to use one of my ten precious “back-up childcare” days I want to make sure it’s worth it and that I’m taking full advantage of the option.  Jason wanted me to join him on his field trip to the fish hatchery on Wednesday, October 7th – being Justin’s busy season at work I knew Justin wouldn’t be able to help out so I booked a nanny for the day. 

The night before I planned out my route.  

That’s a minimum of 2 hrs 18 min of just driving – and that’s based on the traffic at 10:24pm – which is MUCH different that daytime traffic.  I knew it would be tight to hit everything.

Getting to Winco was fine, but driving up 167/405 to get back toward Walmart and the Factoria Mall was a BEAST so I had to cut out lunch at Chick-fil-a and a cupcake run – Boo! 

Turns out Jason’s bus was over a half hour late to the hatchery so I probably could have swung Chick-fil-A after all, but I’m not one to take chances on being late so I was there when I was supposed to be.

There were tons of parent volunteers so I wasn’t really needed.  It was an interesting tour though and I was glad to be there with Jason.

He wore red on purpose because the salmon get excited when they see red.

Our tour guide was very entertaining.  I always think of my Dad when I go on these sorts of things.  He was a volunteer tour guide for years at the Hill Air Force Base museum and I’m sure he was just as passionate and interested about planes as this lady was about fish.

(That’s Jason’s teacher Mr. Scourey in the plaid shirt and black vest) 

   

After the field trip I went down to the kids elementary school to volunteer in Katie’s classroom for a few hours.   She was so excited to have me there and I know her teacher appreciated the help.

From there I popped over to the middle school to watch Abigail’s volleyball game (a future post).  Always fun to watch my kids play.

Before heading home I ventured off in the backwoods of Fall City to drop off my fabric for my office bench seat at an upholster and then after 10 hours of running around it was time to head home to relieve the nanny.