Busy Weekend

Again, precious weekend is gone within a blink of an eye.

Friday night, we broke our years-long tradition of lying to our daughter about the source and nature of rock music and hyperactive children's screaming behind our house, and took her to the Ice Cream Social. This event is right behind our house, and seeing as Ava will be attending in the fall, (and would likely have questioned our lies this year) we decided to go. Have to say, it was quite nice! We took the Jones' along with us, and all kids had a great time. Brett and Casey remarked that our house was conveniently located, allowing for brief cocktail breaks. Ava and Georgia particularly enjoyed the inflatables, hair spray color, and (in Ava's case) the fake injury tent. All the attention and gore, but none of the pain, I suppose. James enjoyed a couple hours of time playing Simpsons Game on the PS2, while the men took over the PS3.

Saturday, we took the dreaded I-94 out to Kalamazoo to attend a graduation open house for Danielle, Casey's cousin's youngest. I-94 didn't disappoint. We spent about 1/2 hour in construction gridlock, made frightening by the pronouncement from the back seat: "I really have to go to the bathroom!" Yes, as ever, this proclaimation was made approximately 5 seconds after we passed the last exit and 10 seconds before we hit gridlock. Lucky for us, the kid has a powerful bladder. OH was fun, and I particularly enjoyed playing with Ben's (Danielle's older brother) new puppy, Grandy. Cute little chocolate lab. Seeing family was nice too, of course, but they aren't nearly as soft and fuzzy. From there, we took off for Lansing, to drop Ava at Casey's mom's house. By the time we got back to Northville, we couldn't even capitalize on our childless state by going out to dinner - but the blowout by the Wings was good consolation!

Sunday, we planned all kinds of errands - clean house, trim bushes, get stuff at the 'Po, etc. We managed Dinner and a movie. I can live with this.

I do have to make one comment on Terminator Salvation, which was our chosen flick....You'd think Skynet would consider mustard gas or something much less pricey than terminators. I'm just sayin'.