This week’s highlights include: Andrew going to a new friend, Ethan Grey’s, 7th birthday party. Complete with home made chocolate chip cookies, chocolate cake, Oreo cookie ice-cream, and general chaos that comes with 15 children of all ages confined to a small area after eating sugar. The main activity, aside from opening presents was dodging a multitude of Nerf gun “bullets” and bouncing on an exercise ball. Needless to say, they were all having a great time!
Ethan’s family will be moving to Washington State in January. His Mom, Rene is the Hoonah 5/6th grade teacher. She was raised on “The Farm,” (last week’s post) and apart from getting her teaching credential in Fairbanks, has lived her entire life on this island. Their family: Rene, her husband (who was Mayor last year), Ethan and his older brother Truman are all excited for their new adventure…especially Ethan, who gets to spend the $70 he got for his birthday at Toy-R-Us in Seattle.
Sunday was the only sun day of the week. Andrew and I reveled in the light with a long walk along the coast. We made a short visit to the tiny, local cemetery. Andrew likes to go there, not only to read the names on the unkempt grave markers, but also to do the math of how old they were when 
the people died. He got really excited when he found one that died on his 3rd birthday. It may sound like a morbid outing…but it is fodder for thoughtful conversation. Andrew and I, along with 35 other adults
and kids, learned how to play Bunco at the Boy and Girl’s Club. It was a joint effort of the Big Brother, Big Sister program and the Boy Scouts. We headed across the street after school on Wednesday. They explained the rules, enough for all the ages 
to understand. The pace was great; fun and fast. Andrew ended up with five Buncos. I only had one. We both ended up taking home a prize; his, a stuffed animal rattle snake and I, a small pottery vase.
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