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A quick update on the weekend’s shenanigans – Berta and Abby went camping with the Girl Scouts over Friday night, so Riley and I had a boy’s night out.
I picked up Riley from school early, and we headed to the movie theater to see Up. It was good. The movie is about a guy named Carl who meets a girl, falls in love and makes a promise, and the promise becomes an adventure; one that drags along an unsuspecting Wilderness Explorer named Russel. It’s a good movie, in the traditional Pixar style. Much better than Wall-E. The beginning of the movie is very sad.
After the movie, Riley and I looked for a new watch for him at Target. He picked out a Batman watch. I picked out a watch with flames for him. His watch had Batman and a plastic band. The one I picked had a date window and a fabric band with velcro. Yesterday, he wore his pick. Today he wore my pick. I should ask him which he likes better.
Friday evening, we played Rock Band and watched some TV. He’s actually getting pretty good at playing the Rock Band drums. Sure, he fails all the time and needs rescuing, but we made it completely through every song that I was able to play, unlike some other people. cough Berta cough
Saturday, he got me up early to tell me about the bottle of water that Phobos had spilled on his bedroom floor. After we got that all cleaned up, we ate breakfast (Riley had orange jello) and went outside. I drew on the driveway in chalk, while Riley and Tegan played on bikes.
Then Riley suggested that we go have lunch with my dad. So I called, but he was at the bay. So Riley and I drove to the bay and visited my dad on his boat. We had lunch in the little restaurant nearby, and went out on the pier to look for Chessie, the sea monster that lives in the Chesapeake Bay. We didn’t see it.
I was thinking about heading back home to meet up with the girls, unsure if they had a ride back to the house from meeting the scouts, when my dad’s friends came by. We took their boat out for a short ride. Their boat was pretty big – two bedrooms below deck, each with their own bathroom. It was fun to tool around in the bay.
Riley fell asleep on the ride back. We picked up some meatball sandwiches, and met the girls at home. They got home shortly after us, since Berta had taken Abby out to Marsh Creek after they got back from camping. Apparently, there were many people setting up at the park for a “Star Night”, with all sorts of telescopes. That seemed like fun, but I was too tired for all that.
Instead, Riley and I (mostly Riley) stayed up late and watched the third Harry Potter movie before we went to bed.
Today, we took it easy. We had lunch at the Pepper Mill (after driving around for an hour looking for it), and then stopped at Mom’s to check on her cat, Vickie, who was alone while Mom is on vacation. We sat with her for a while, and then she started hissing at us, so we left.
After that, the kids played with the neighbors, Berta cleaned the house some more, and I wrote some code and email and stuff. Including this. And now it’s June.
This week should be an interesting week. I’m going to try really hard to grab one of those Palm Pre phones on Saturday. Hopefully, they’re not going to be as hard to get as they suggest. Also, Friday is the day I usually celebrate my birthday, and even though I don’t think we’ll be doing the same big BBQ as last year, I still want to do something. I’ve been thinking a lot about crabs. Yummy.
