Sprang Brake! Woo!

Cas has noticed over time that there is a tendency in some of the younger people of the country to mispronounce the words spring and break when placed together.  Somehow, both words have a very long A sound in the middle.  Spring becomes sprang.  Break is braaaake.  Typically, those who pronounce it this way follow up with a loud and proud WOO!  

So, here we are, on Sprang Brake Woo.  We spent the first weekend getting all of our work done.  I am all caught up in the college class I am taking, and the lessons for my classroom I’ll be using a week from today are already in place.  Cas graded a mountain of tests or some such misery.  We are totally ready to play, now that all of the work is done.  

Jeanne and Dave bought us a gift.  There are these educational DVD sets called The Great Courses, and they picked up the one on national parks.  We haven’t had a ton of time to delve into the set, but we did make a point to watch the piece about Big Bend National Park last night.  It was very informative.  

Today, we pick up a rental car and drive to Odessa.  By the weekend, we will be at the National park. We have stops along the way, of course, and I am looking forward to them.  

It will be good to get away for a week. I’m all packed, and so is Cas.  We have a bag of road trip food ready to go.  We just need to pick up a rental car so someone else’s vehicle can have all of those miles.  

So, here we go- Sprang Brake!  Woo!