Odyssey Redux

We had a wonderful celebration to mark the successful completion of another Odyssey of the Mind season. And to acknowledge that for some of us it might be the last Odyssey, (or at least the last at St. Rita School). I invited folks to come and bring Ice cream Sundae fixings, assigning each grade a different item, so we had a terrific variety, and plenty to go around. (And I didn't have to shop for the masses...) Then the sixth grade Odyssey team members presented some spontaneous problems for everyone to do, from little kids to adults. It worked out really well, and was very fun to watch everyone interacting. The parents finally understood what the kids had been doing for months on those Thursday afternoons, the younger kids got a taste of how much fun spontaneous can be, the team members found out that parents can be creative too, and the 6th grade leaders showed that they had been paying attention all along and were thrilled to have a chance to turn the tables and be the judges. In other words, it was a success all the way around. Sigh of relief.