Welcome Summer Break…I’m Already Tired

Hello! We celebrated our first day of Summer Break yesterday with a surprise visit to one of the all time favorite kid places, Chuck E. Cheese’s! Since it’d been at least a year since we were there last, we noticed that they had changed things up a bit and added some new games. One being this horse. Jessica loved it. You get on the horse and watch the video screen and you are involved in a horse race. Of course, she has no clue how to ride a horse for real, but who cares…she had a blast. On the second photo, Jessica is doing this funky twist that she does with her tongue. I can’t do it and she tells me it’s because I am not a kid. LOL

Amy worked out some energy on this whack a pin game. I want to say whack a mole, but there were no moles in sight.

For some reason, this ride thing was a favorite of Amy’s. Maybe because it was a ride? Maybe she’s gearing herself up for whenever she gets to a real amusement park? Maybe she just plain old thought it was fun?! This is the activity she kept talking about to her dad at dinner. Go figure.

A visit wouldn’t be complete without feeding tickets to the Ticket Muncher. Both girls earned enough tickets to get a little something, something from the prize display.

100 Tokens = $15 (with a coupons)

Drinks = $6

First Day of Summer Break Memories = Priceless.

 

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One would think that I would sit down and work on scrapping these memories? Oh NO, one would be wrong. I decided to do some cleaning instead (I know, I know…what was I thinking?) Yeah, it seemed like a good idea at the time, and I am still sore from my efforts as I type this.

We have two car sized carport (which I love, love, love-no snow to speak of piling up on the cars unless it’s a windy storm). The carport cover extends up the ramp (not steps) to our porch (previous owner was in a wheel chair), so no rain or snow falls on us when we go out to the car. However, this lovely carport area/porch can also double as a dumping ground. And I decided to rectify this yesterday after we got home. I could have used the hose to wash it all down, but I, wanting to get some exercise (cough, cough), so I swept it all up. After moving all the junk not necessary for the porch/end of the carport elsewhere. I even cleaned the big window screens to our great room (which is a converted two car garage…the window is the size of a two car garage door opening). Sigh…I don’t know where the energy came from. Maybe the music I selected on the boom box I brought out to listen to while I worked? I even vacuumed out the cars…again! I got us some popcorn on the way home from our fun morning and the bag the girls were sharing fell over, dumping popcorn all over the floor. Sigh. So, since I had the vacuum out for the window tracks, I gave the cars a quick once over. This is in addition to the vacuuming the van got earlier in the week, after our last haul of wood. After I was done outside, again, since the vacuum was out…I vacuumed up the great room. Then I swept up the kitchen and living room and did a quick mop of the living room. What can I say? I was on a roll! Then, after dinner, we went on a bike ride. Guess I did get my exercise for the day? Week? Month?  LOL I’m sore, but satisfied with my efforts.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you have a great weekend. Amy has a Brownie Day today where she is going to work on earning 6 badges. She’ll be gone all day. Jessica will probably have fun playing with her friends. I will probably finish weeding/planting the rest of the flowers and cleaning around the back yard. Yeah, I have no idea where the motivation is coming from, but you gotta go with it when it comes, right?

Jeanne