BenSpark Family Adventures

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02001 Allison and the kids headed to the Cape today for the start of Science School tomorrow. I had to stay home for work and I had a gift certificate to Bliss that shelby had given me for my birthday. It still had some money on it so I went and had dinner there and then got an ice cream cone after dinner. Glad I opted for a cup instead of just a cone because it melted fast. It was very tasty, though.

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02000 I felt like having some ice cream sandwiches tonight so on the way to work I picked up a box to share with my group. I think it is the first time in a long time that we have all been together. All five of us. It is no secret that I dislike being in the office. It is not that I dislike my co-workers. I like this group very much. Everyone is a good person who works very hard. I used to be the one who did special treat nights at the office but since we’ve mostly been working from home that didn’t make much sense. We very rarely are all together in the same office, too. We were going to be together tonight so I picked up some ice cream sandwiches.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01999 The other day the whole family downloaded an app called Finch. the app is a wellness app to help you remember to do things like simple tasks every day. For the most part we downloaded it to help Andy out remembering to do things that we keep reminding them to do. Not sure if it will help out but we are trying. Allison made this special sign in the bathroom to also help with the remembering. I think she did a really nice job making the sign.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01998 I still haven’t opened all 9 of my Blokees Transformers figures yet but these are the ones that I have opened so far. They are pretty fun to assemble and I enjoy them so I am taking my time. There is a creator that I like on Tik Tok. He’s around my age, he works in IT and the other day he changed up his regular content and talked about his Transformers figures. He as talking about how Optimus Prime was his first figure and he showed how it was loved over time. I commented that Wheeljack was my first figure and he took my comment and created another video talking about his Wheeljack figure. There isn’t a way on Tik Tok for me to share a photo specifically with the creator. I’d definitely like him to see my collection.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01997 Today we took a family trip down to Ninigret Park State Park in Charlestown, Rhode Island. We went there because artist Thomas Dambo created two new Trolls to display there. Thomas takes recycled wood and other materials to create his trolls. These are very large art installations and they are always very fun and interesting to see. We saw some a few years ago at Bernheim Forest and Arboretum in Kentucky when we visited Tara. There were several trolls there spread out throughout the park. There are only the two in Charlestown and they are fairly close together. The trolls are Greta and Eric. We visited Great first and then off to Eric. It was a nice easy walk to get to each one. We were scouting the location for a potential future visit with Allison’s parents. After our walk we had lunch at Monahan’s Clam Shack & Restaurant. It was an okay place with some cornhole sets and picnic tables. The clamcakes and chowder were great and Allison loved her clam roll, wh...

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01996 Eva has been working on a new cosplay and with it a whole new wig. This one she has been styling for a few days now and tonight she came in to show me so I had to get a great photo of her hard work. Today was our last stripe tests for a while. We’re taking two months off from Krav for the Summer and we both had pretty hard stripe tests today. The drills were intense. Eva did a great job and I moved up to a green stripe on my belt. I also am having my 5 year strip put onto my belt while I am away. Today I learned that my black belt partner, Pastor Dave, is no longer going to be training. I am going to miss him but I think that Knee Replacement Dave is going to miss him more. KRD just got his black belt and has been looking forward to training with us on the black belt side of things. Now he has to wait for 2 months for me to return.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01995 I’ve been having some very tasty lemon treats lately. Misfits Market has some great lemon items. I get some low sugar lemon sours and Allison found these Lemon Sea Salt cookies and they were very tasty. You wouldn’t think that lemon and salt would go together but somehow it works. I picked up the Del’s ice cream and it has a very subtle lemon flavor to the ice cream and I enjoyed that very much. No one else seemed to so I had it for myself.