Beth took the kids to Black Pine Animal Park (again) on Monday (without me, which was fine). The girls love the place, but Alex and I kinda feel like we’ve seen it enough…..Monday evening I took the rebuilt RC foam plane to the church for another flying session, which like the last one ended quickly. It took off and ascended initially, but was banking hard left from the start and I couldn’t keep it under control. The flight lasted about 5 seconds. I thought I was going to be able to keep it under control for a second or two but then it crashed hard into the parking lot and was totaled. Parts flying off and everything. The battery started to swell so I’m going to have to replace that, but the rest of the parts should be salvageable and I’ll try again…..Tuesday was supposed to be a make-up day for softball. We were rained out a few weeks back, so last Tuesday was originally an off day before the tournament starts, and they took advantage of the free day to make up the game. However, the rainout was rained out. It was one of those days when it kind of drizzles during the day and threatens rain all day, so nobody’s sure if we’re going to play or not until game time. Most of the team was at or on the way to the park when they finally announced that games were cancelled…..since we had a free evening after the game was called off, Beth and I took the kids to see “Ant-Man and the Wasp” afterwards. It was a little boring, I thought, but maybe I’m just not used to the lighter Marvel fare…..I made reservations this week for Cedar Point for the company picnic in September. I found an Airbnb house about 10 miles away for a lot less than a hotel near the park.…..Beth and Nat had some difficulties on Wednesday; Nat was going to a friend’s house in the evening after counseling but her friend thought she was coming over to our house. So while she and Beth were gone her friend’s dad dropped her off at our house. Then we waited for them to get here, which (I didn’t know) they weren’t going to. After a while I get a choppy phone call from Beth, that they had gone to drop Nat off at the friend’s house but they ran out of gas in middle of the trailer park, which is a place where Nat had some bad history and she’s having a panic attack just from being there, and now they can’t get out. And Beth’s phone has died. So she has to go door to door in this trailer park asking if someone will let her use their phone to call me, while Natalie is lying on the floor of the van and Beth is getting panicky herself. But she did it! And the person that she finally found to let her use a phone didn’t have service so she had to find wi-fi somewhere to use it. She finally got a hold of me and I (with the friend) came to get them and brought enough gas to get them back to a gas station…..Natalie has finally finished summer gym online! What a pain to deal with this teacher all summer but it is done.