Happy Easter! We have had a wonderful day here in Kentucky. After church this morning, Emily, her boyfriend Jeremy, Carolyn and I met Lyland, Bill, Carolyn and Reid for a wonderful Lunch at the Chop House in Lexington. It was delicious. I had a great steak, although I may end up regretting that decision-my gout has flared up. I was pretty miserable with it on Saturday, but with great drugs am much better today.

I had a great Spring Break-went on a cruise to the Bahamas-a first for me. There were 9 in our group and we had lots of fun. I think the highlight would have to be doing the deep water swimming with the dolphins at Dolphin Cay Atlantis. I was really neat to be right in the water next to the dolphins. We had a scooter to propel us through the water so it was easier to "keep up" with them. Although it was a very controlled swimming situation I thought it was great.

We left from Port Canaveral on Monday and returned on Friday-short and sweet-but it was long enough to know that I would definitely go on another cruise! Now I just need to save up for one.

I am busy with both needlepoint and knitting. I am currently in a needlepoint class doing a Christmas decoration. By the end of the third class, the canvas should almost be completed-which is unusual-I start many projects and rarely do I finish them in class. This is the canvas I am doing Christmas Basket-the basket will come out of the canvas-I think we will use wire to give it dimension-that is what we will work on in the last class in 2 weeks. I am still working on afghan blocks for the Great American Afghan class I am in with my knitting. I have taken 7 class, finished one block but have 2 more very close to being completed. I won't even mention the knitted socks I have started.

The girls are both doing well. Allison has finished one of her classes and is looking forward to completing the other one. She is planning on taking classes during the summer as well. She is ready to be done with school. Emily on the other had is spending a lot of time working on crafts-a t- shirt quilt, and some other small projects. She will start classes again in the fall.

School is going well for me. I am deep into my new position as school technology coordinator(STC) I am curious to see if i will be teaching classes next year due to budget cuts or if i will be able to devote all of my time to the STC position. It would be much easier to only do the STC position-our school is large enough to need a full time STC but we will have to see how the budget goes and what our enrollment will be next year. Even though there are now 3 middle schools in Georgetown, my school, Scott County Middle, continues to be the largest and keeps growing!

I almost forgot-Before I left on Spring Break the University of Kentucky fired Billy Gillispie as head basketball coach (after two seasons) while I was gone they hired John Calipari as coach-it looks like next basketball season will be an interesting one to see.

Take Care. MJ