Traveling to Austin

[Jo]

My principal just announced that any 4th or 5th grade student with 100 
Accelerated Reader points by November 13 can take a school sponsored 
trip to Kerrville to see a special early showing of the movie just for 
our school.  Then she sent me a copy of the travel request (request 
for the transportation) where it listed "two aids from the AR lab, one 
fourth grade teacher, and Jo Crabtree."  Another fifth grade teacher 
that I got started on Harry Potter asked the principal what it would 
take for her to get to go. She told her that every student in her room 
had to have the points to go. She also tells everyone that you should 
have read all of the books at least twice. Now the other teacher is 
still reading POA for the first time.  It is exciting that she is 
hooked now.  She started reading them because I taunted her into it. 
Ah, the rewards of enthusiasm. I need to keep my students reading. How 
would it look if she got all of her class to 100 each and I didn't.

I had already promised my senior daughter that we would go together 
for the first showing. Now she is upset that I am going to see it 
before her. Junction is about an hour from Kerrville so we will see 
the movie about 11:00 then eat and come back to Junction. I will have 
to turn right around and go back to Kerrville with Marcia to see it 
with her.  I think my husband is meeting us there for that show. He 
works in Fredricksburg.

Although I would like nothing better than to see it again on Saturday, 
I'm not that sure I want to drive to Austin any more. I have to go to 
Austin this weekend for my sister-in-law's baby shower. I think it's 
about three hours from here. 

I've said all of this to say that I may not be able to come after all.
I want to keep it as a possibility but not a promise. It would have to 
be on Saturday if I could come.

Jo