Saturday, November 7, 2009

The Texas trip was wonderful!!!!!!

WE visited IDEA Academy College Prep, San Juan, Texas,
now open with grades K, 6 and 9.
We spent Saturday morning touring Sam's new school. Tim flew out from LA to Austin and then Joe and Tim drove down on Saturday morning. Dan and Deb went to school all day on Monday, Deb mostly hanging out with students with disabilities, Dan working for IBM long distance.

The flights went fine, the power wheelchair, Red Rover, survived, and it was a great trip!

Posters near kindergarten classrooms announcing college dreams! Currently seven percent of the residents of the Rio Grande Valley have college degrees.


Above: Sam talking with ninth graders about the consequences of the Friday food fight!
Above: Sam getting ready for dismissal and bus duty.

Fun in Sam's garage - all the brothers giving each other hair cuts!!
The wheelchair van we rented, on-the-go in Texas with Joe in the back and Tim in the front!

Below: Halloween happiness at Sam's house, where we all carved our pumpkins (even Deb) just like in the days of long ago! Really, really fun!!!

Outside Sam's office - Sam, Joe, Tim and Dan with me as photographer! Can't wait to go back!

2 comments:

  1. What great pictures, it's a great peek into the trip . What fun it must have been to carve pumpkins in Texas, see all the boys and experience Sam's school. What are the food fight consequences? Thank you for sharing the journey. HP

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  2. Hey, very nice site. I came across this on Google, and I am stoked that I did. I will definitely be coming back here more often. Wish I could add to the conversation and bring a bit more to the table,but am just taking in as much info as I can at the moment. Thanks for sharing.

    Karma Sunny Wheelchairr

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