OK, so on the Wednesday before Spring Break, Anna apparently got an assignment in her reading class on Fairy Tales. They had a 500 Point project to do that would be due on the Monday they got back from Spring Break. And they had 3 days in class to 'work' on it - or have to finish it over spring break. They had several 'options' for things they could do to get their 500 points worth of credit. Anna wrote a couple of poems and then decided on making THE CASTLE. She was going to make the AMUSEMENT PARK that had to have at least 5 attractions, but when her dad started talking about making a working roller coaster and a log ride, complete with water -- well, let's just say it was all getting a little out of hand. ;-)
The kicker for me in all of this is that we had to do this over SPRING BREAK!!!!! Isn't spring break supposed to be a BREAK from school? Hello???? Am I the only one who really gets bugged by this kind of stuff!?! sigh.
Anyways, with a little help from friends - thank you Jenna and Emma! - and a bit of family invovlement (mostly dad) -- and finally a sense of humor when we were getting pretty tired of the whole thing... viola! Rapunzel's Castle. Complete with a mote, drawbridge, charming prince and Rapunzel with her hair flowing down the 'Mountainous Tower of Dew' (you had to read Anna's rendering of the Rapunzel fairy tale to actually appreciate that. :-)
I know some of you reading had to hear me complain about this already... so I just thought it was only fair that you got to see the castle that we were so affectionately referring to. And by the way, Anna got a 500 on that project! Plus a "Love This!" comment. So in fairy tale fashion, 'we can all live happily ever after.'
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