Yummy Peach Pie

Coming home from Virginia Beach my Dad bought a basket of peaches. Yesterday, he made the yummiest peach pie ever! I don't really like peaches, but peach pie is really good! Many compliments to the chef, my Dad.

I am doing another week of tennis camp, this time with the Kneidels. It's just as fun and before class (while Grace and Aidan are in their class), I get to play tennis with Henry. He is a really good tennis player. Yesterday after tennis, I had a sleepover with Henry, that was really fun. We also went to see a Breakdancing Shakespeare play at Kingswood-Oxford School. The first thing I noticed when I got there was that two very familiar people were sitting in front of me. I leaned into their row and saw Erin and Patrick Connolly! They were not in the play, but one of Patrick's friends was. The play was really good. There was no major good character - all the characters were a little bit bad. The main character, MacBeth, being one of the worst. For those of you who haven't seen the play sorry for spoiling it.

At the very beginning of the play, MacBeth is battling to protect the King. He wins and then sees three witches, who tell MacBeth that he will be King. When MacBeth goes back to his hometown, the King elects him Prince. When the King comes over to MacBeth's house, MacBeth murders him because his wife, knowing about the witches, wanted him to be King. Then MacBeth runs into the witches again and they tell him that his friend Duncan's kids will be King. MacBeth sends out an elite squad to kill Duncan's kids and Duncan. When they get there, Duncan ends up dying, but the kid gets away. When MacBeth has a party, he sees the ghost of Duncan. He is the only one who can see it, and all of a sudden gets very scared. The party is cancelled because of MacBeth's' "hallucinations." MacBeth runs into the witches one more time, and they tell him that he is to be killed by his friend MacDuff. He finds out that MacDuff, has fled to his castle London, but has left all of his family and children behind. MacBeth sends out an elite squad to kill MacDuff's family. They hit and are very successful, everyone in the audience gasped when one of the mean soldiers took the baby out of the wife's hand and kicked it right off the stage. Meanwhile, Lady MacBeth is feeling very guilty and has been having nightmares. She cannot get blood splotches off her hands and when she does the smell is still there. Being frightened nervous and guilty she cuts both of her forearms with knives and dies. When the news reaches MacDuff that his family has been killed, he decides to go attack MacBeth. They go through a whole war scene with MacBeth killing random citizens of MacDuff's people. But when MacDuff comes to fight MacBeth, MacBeth knows he will lose. So he says, "Give me all you got MacDuff" in oldish english. They fight it out to the death, and MacDuff wins. MacDuff's friend becomes the new King of Scotland and it all ends relatively happily ever after, except for all the dead people.

I really enjoyed the play and the breakdancing was awesome. The breakdancing took place in-between scenes but did not actually effect the play, though the dancing was done by characters in the play.

I am having good time even though we are back from Virginia Beach. I have been loving summer, too bad there is only 21 days left.

-Connor