The weekend
We had a fun weekend.
Jan and some friends rented a house in the Poconos for the weekend, and all went up to do artsy/craftsy type things. The house was set up with that specific niche in mind, with a well lit work area, lots of table space, tv/stereo setup for entertainment, and so on. The owner does scrap booking, and even had scrap book supplies available for purchase. Apparently, this was the first time non-scrapbook arts & crafters rented the house, and the owner is now looking for more general business as a result. Still, it sounds like the owner is doing pretty well, since she's booked up for the next few months.
That left Dane and me to fend for ourselves, and we had a pretty good time doing it, too.
We played a lot of LEGO Batman, which is now Dane's most favoritest game EVAR. Last weekend, we took all of our old game systems (original XBox, Gamecube, PSP), controllers, and games we don't use anymore, and traded them in at the local GameStop. Total credit received? A whopping $187.00! I'm still a bit stunned. It could have been another $30 or $50 more, but the battery on the PSP wouldn't retain the charge, so we got dinged on that one. We were at the GameStop for over an hour while the guy tried out all of the systems and controllers, and checked every game and so on. We wound up playing NBA 2009, very badly. I committed fouls that I didn't know even existed. In any case, Dane was so good that I allowed him to get LEGO Batman with some of the money.
In the past week we're roughly halfway done with the game - having completed 15 out of 30 missions. His favorite character is Nightwing (Robin as a grown-up superhero). I'm sorry...his all time favoritest superhero EVAR.
On Saturday, we went and saw the movie Inkheart. It was good, but not great, but it was a lot of fun, and a good way to spend 2 hours on a cold January afternoon. It had a lot of names: Brendan Fraser, Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent, Paul Bettany, and my favorite, Andy Serkis as the bad guy. There was one point which I was afraid might be too scary for Dane, but he seemed good with it. Would I want to own it on dvd? No. Would I watch it if it was on cable? Sure.
On Sunday, we went to the open swim at the YMCA, which is something we'd been talking about doing for ages. Finally, we did it, and had a blast. At it's most crowded, there were maybe 10 other families in the pool at the same time, without any boisterous behavior from obnoxious kids. We will definitely go back several times between now and Memorial Day, when the neighborhood swim club opens up.
Jan and some friends rented a house in the Poconos for the weekend, and all went up to do artsy/craftsy type things. The house was set up with that specific niche in mind, with a well lit work area, lots of table space, tv/stereo setup for entertainment, and so on. The owner does scrap booking, and even had scrap book supplies available for purchase. Apparently, this was the first time non-scrapbook arts & crafters rented the house, and the owner is now looking for more general business as a result. Still, it sounds like the owner is doing pretty well, since she's booked up for the next few months.
That left Dane and me to fend for ourselves, and we had a pretty good time doing it, too.
We played a lot of LEGO Batman, which is now Dane's most favoritest game EVAR. Last weekend, we took all of our old game systems (original XBox, Gamecube, PSP), controllers, and games we don't use anymore, and traded them in at the local GameStop. Total credit received? A whopping $187.00! I'm still a bit stunned. It could have been another $30 or $50 more, but the battery on the PSP wouldn't retain the charge, so we got dinged on that one. We were at the GameStop for over an hour while the guy tried out all of the systems and controllers, and checked every game and so on. We wound up playing NBA 2009, very badly. I committed fouls that I didn't know even existed. In any case, Dane was so good that I allowed him to get LEGO Batman with some of the money.
In the past week we're roughly halfway done with the game - having completed 15 out of 30 missions. His favorite character is Nightwing (Robin as a grown-up superhero). I'm sorry...his all time favoritest superhero EVAR.
On Saturday, we went and saw the movie Inkheart. It was good, but not great, but it was a lot of fun, and a good way to spend 2 hours on a cold January afternoon. It had a lot of names: Brendan Fraser, Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent, Paul Bettany, and my favorite, Andy Serkis as the bad guy. There was one point which I was afraid might be too scary for Dane, but he seemed good with it. Would I want to own it on dvd? No. Would I watch it if it was on cable? Sure.
On Sunday, we went to the open swim at the YMCA, which is something we'd been talking about doing for ages. Finally, we did it, and had a blast. At it's most crowded, there were maybe 10 other families in the pool at the same time, without any boisterous behavior from obnoxious kids. We will definitely go back several times between now and Memorial Day, when the neighborhood swim club opens up.