JJ Sleeps Over

I must confess to being a little overwhelmed with sleepovers. We are now into our 4th day (JJ will go home later today), and I feel as though I could still write more about Danica's sleepover, nevermind JJ's. Maybe it will all get written -- maybe not -- time will tell.

This post will be a quick overview of time with JJ yesterday.

As with Danica, we also took him down to the dam. I didn't take my big camera this time. Actually, the phone works well enough for snapshots in decent light. In fact, when I process my RAW snapshotty type of photos from the big camera, I sometimes ask myself how the phone would process the rather flat shot. With all its computing power, the phone does very good processing much of the time, boosting saturation and contrast. While phone photography is not great for controlling the light etc, it is often just fine for record photos.

Anyway -- down at the dam.

After playing below the dam, I let him onto the dam, despite the Danger No Trespassing sign. Don't judge me too harshly, for playing on the dam and jumping off it is not uncommon. He's a boy, and a little adventure is a good thing IMO.

Time to go home, but I had to wait while he played at driving. I remember the feeling although I was a little older, and we didn't even have a car when I was 11, but I can remember really wanting to drive. He'll have to wait 5 years though.

For dinner, we picked up shawarmas and ate them by the river behind townhall. By then it was quite windy and chilly. The 14-day weather forecast does not include a heatwave, for which we are grateful.

Back home in the evening, I showed him the basic chess moves. We didn't play a game, but he learned how the pieces move, and we set up the board, so he could checkmate me. In this photo at the beginning of our tutorial, I show him the king.

Later, we all played a few games of Sorry, each of us winning once.

Then he was allowed on his phone until bedtime. He has gotten his clock turned around during this huge time off from school, so it was lights out at 10 and set the alarm for 9 if he is still asleep, which he is at 7 o'clock this morning.