Wicked fun Weekend!

 It was a busy 4 days and with my vacation day I had three nights in a row off!

Thursday wasn’t too bad as Canaan just had football practice.  However, it runs from 530 – 730pm so it does interrupt dinner time and the normal flow to the evening.   After practice I bought us all Ice Cream at Debs, it will probably be our last of the season.   NBC Sports was streaming the NFL season opener of the Patriots vs. the Steelers, fast game with the Pats winning!

Friday I took the kids to school and daycare.  Then I ran some errands around Augusta stopping at Shaws, Dollar Tree, & Big Lots.  I stopped at Editor’s Note to play some pinball and buy a comic, I also set up to have him set aside a couple future books. 

The pinball machine called Pit Stop made by Williams Electronics and released in 1968 is based on car racing where the goal is to complete laps around the track.  10 laps gets you a free game, I myself played 6 games two of which I had won.  Very simple but very fun game.

Friday night was Youth night at the Gardiner Football game, the played Skowhegan and I’m assuming lost as they were down by several touchdowns when we left after the end of the 3^rd quarter.   Addison cheered the first half of the game and Canaan with his team were called out at Halftime.  As I’ve said before it’s quite an experience going to a game, they had 4 different food shacks to get just about anything you wanted. 

Saturday was BIW family day at Funtown in Saco, once again Dad & Linda treated us. The weather was nice, sunny and clear but not hot.  The kids had a blast hitting the rides side first with the catered lunch of hot dogs and burgers in there.  Dad bought them Ice Cream and then they headed out before we took the kids over to the Splashtown side. 

When we first got it we went over to the carousel, everyone was ahead of me as Gram-Gram had called to talk about Blacklist.  When I caught up I watched Dad helping Addison up on a horse and when I looked back he had mounted the horse next to hers.  I could not believe what I was seeing!  Kate took Wesley on the ride as well sitting on the bench. 

We went on a few other rides.  Addison drove me around on the roadsters and we rode the balloon race together.  Addison drove Dad & Linda on the Antique cars while Canaan chauffeured Kate on the same ride.  The kids road a bunch of other rides each some multiple times.  When they went for ice cream I went into the arcade and played a single game of Family Guy pinball, I got the high score and earned a free game based on score.  They also had a play until you win candy claw that had frooties in it!!  I won two frooties.

Over at Splashtown the kids and Kate played in Pirates Cove and went down plenty of slides, plus some swimming in the 3 foot pool.  Kate and Canaan waited an excessive amount of time to slide down the corkscrew.  I honestly can’t believe that Canaan went through with it.  We spent close to 3 hours at Splashtown before calling it a day.  Canaan made the comment that this was the best Summer ever.

On the way home we stopped at Wendy’s in Topsham.  For whatever reason the staff decided that we waited too long for our food, I didn’t think so, and gave us each a small or mini Frosty.   Kate dipped a French fry in her Frosty and said that she didn’t know why but that dipping your fries in a Frosty was delicious.  The odd thing in this scenario is that Canaan, Addison, & I each picked up a fry and dipped it in the Frosty, we didn’t even question just how odd her statement was.  Incidentally she was right!  Something about the sweet and salty mixture was really good. 

Wesley was so good all day today we made sure he got some blanket time for about half an hour.  You couldn’t have asked for a better baby.  That and he is just so friggin cute!

Sunday Canaan had a football game at 9am at home in Gardiner against Bath.  Canaan played a great game putting pressure in the backfield, making a few tackles, and recovering a kick off.  I couldn’t be more proud of him for trying hard, doing his best, and it was clear that even though they lost the game he was having fun out there.

By the time Addison’s game started for her to cheer it was basically a recipe for disaster.  The game didn’t start until 11am, by then Addison had been at the field for 3 hours.  The 5^th & 6^th grade teams stop the clock so the game took close to 2 hours instead of the hour her coach thought it would be.  Basically it was too long for her and she had had enough.  Unfortunately Addison was forced to leave with just a couple minutes left in the game because of her behavior. 

Kate, Wesley, and I went to the Litchfield Fair as Kate wanted some fair food.  I hadn’t been to a fair in over two years and hadn’t been to the Litchfield Fair in years! 

We had a good walk around looking at all the expo halls, rides, games, and of course the food.  I found a truck was served deep friend milky ways and couldn’t resist the urge.  It was delicious!  Kate had a deep fried twinkie and enjoyed that as well.  We indulged in a few other fair food classics.  In the 4H room I ran into Amanda Wade, a school chum I hadn’t seen in years.  We had a brief chat and it was nice to see her and her roommate.

Kate had her first experience with pull tickets and she was immediately hooked.  She’s never been to a casino either and told me it would be best to keep her away. 

When we got home I had time to watch a bit of the Packers vs. Bears game to finish off the a great few days before catching a nap so I could get through the night at work.

Just an awesome and busy few days. 

Later readers!