Sunday was Easter, and we went to church in the morning. It was good to be home in time for Easter, which was the plan, so that we did not have to be traveling all day on Easter itself. Meredith is in the start of her busy season of grading, so she spent much of the day grading, but it was a pretty day, so I asked Mer to join me for a walk on the short walk in a park, on the Daffodil Trail.

The Daffodil Trail is a little over a half-mile long, and it is lined sporadically with lots of different kinds of daffodils. It is very pretty when in full bloom. My guess was we had missed the peak by about a week or ten days, and that turned out to be correct. There were still a few bunches of hardy flowers in bloom, but most had gone by. It was still a pretty walk, and I was glad to get out in a park.

A couple of years ago, CVCA started up a lacrosse club, and it has since become a full-fledged team sport. One of the guys in my Connections group is on the team, and Friday was a beautiful day, albeit a bit cold, so I decided to go to part of a game. Mer used the opportunity to “sports surf” and see bits of softball, baseball, and tennis, as well as lacrosse, so that she could see as many of her students as possible. I remembered to bring a folding chair, and so I was able to sit within ten feet of the field. I had only ever been to one lacrosse game before, and that was twenty years ago in college, so my knowledge of the game is a bit sketchy.

I liked it. I later had to find Jon, my student, and have him explain the rules on who gets the ball when it goes out of bounds (if it is a shot on goal, the team closest to the ball gets it; otherwise, the other team gets it), but other than that confusing rule, I could follow the game pretty well. I only stayed for about half the game; we were winning by a large amount when I left, and I had arranged to meet a colleague at my house so he could pick up some scrap metal to recycle it. With the school year winding down, I’m not sure if I’ll get back to another game, but I did like the competition, and was surprised at how easy it was to follow the ball.