Friday was the kids' Spring Carnival~ now this was EXTREMELY IMPORTANT because we didn't get a chance to go to the Halloween Carnival due to being out of town and Tierney has not let me forget it... so we HAD to make sure we went to this one!
The kids had a grand time and of course the first thing was the Cake Walk!
Then it was the basketball throw... which was great because no matter if you won or not- you still received something!
Then it was cotton candy time....
Even Snow White was there!
And in between 5:00 and 7:30pm, there was also ping pong toss for a free goldfish (T won) and Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream, bounce house, pizza slices, floating duck race, cute little pig races, lollipop tree, cake walk again... you get the idea!
They were exhausted by the time we got into the car, and fell asleep promptly on the way home.
We woke up the next morning to get ready for our cousin Danielle's graduation party from Loyola Marymount U! Yeah Dani!!!! It was a great party and met LOTS of great people and it was so good to see family!
Squeezed in a late dinner with Aunt She (Shirley) before we left town and arrived back home around 12:30 am!
Woke up and was at Pammie's house finally loading up the limbs we had cut from her back yard, to take to the dump. MUCH MORE than I thought there was!
Our truck bed and rented tailer was packed, the driveway already had a load in it, and the infamous trash truck arrived AFTER we had everything done.
All in all a great weekend!
SOS is the commonly used description for the International Morse code distress signal (· · · — — — · · ·). This distress signal was first adopted by the German government in radio regulations effective April 1, 1905, and became the worldwide standard when it was included in the second International Radiotelegraphic Convention, which was signed on November 3, 1906, and became effective on July 1, 1908.
From the beginning, the SOS distress signal has actually consisted of a continuous sequence of three-dits/three-dahs/three-dits, all run together without letter spacing. In International Morse Code, three dits form the letter S, and three dahs make the letter O, so "SOS" became an easy way to remember the correct order of the dits and dahs. In modern terminology, SOS is a "procedural signal" or "prosign", and the formal way to write it is with a bar above the letters, i.e. SOS.
In popular usage, SOS became associated with phrases such as "Save Our Ship", "Save Our Souls", "Save Our Skins", "Save Our Stuff", "Shoot Our Ship", "Shoot On Sight", "Sinking Our Ship", "Survivors On Shore", "Save Our Seamen", and "Signal On Sand". It is mostly known by "Save Our Ship" and/or "Save Our Souls". However, these phrases were a later development, most likely used to help remember the correct letters—something known as a backronym.