DAREDEVIL RIDERS

What it is about Seattle and Pirates I have no clue yet. Maybe it is a nautical kind of thing. I still have to figure that one out.

According to Patricia, Ben was a little apprehensive about Blake joining us. "What if Mimi wants to do everything with Blake and not me?' he asked his mom. Not to worry. Blake is a very conservative kind of guy. The amusement park has two sides to it. On one side are all the rides that Mimi could ride on because she is tall enough. The other side the rides are for the taller kids like Ben and Blake. However Blake did not want to go on any of those rides and Ben did. The attendent of the Galleon did allow Mimi to ride with Ben as he is taller than her and she needed to be accompanied by him. She has gone on the smaller, similiar ride about a million times. When they got off the ride, the both of them came running up to us saying "Mom! That ride was freaky but AWSOME!!!" They rode it again.

Later on in the afternoon while Ben and Blake were at the shooting gallery, Mimi who does not care much for that kind of stuff went on another ridy by herself. There she met another 4 yo boy by the name of Anthony. Anthony took an instant liking to her and since they are about the same size, he stuck with her everywhere. However it was putting a little kink into Blake and Ben's plans about going on the rides with Mimi by themselves. A rose and all those thorns around her as my dad used to say.

Since Blake does not like the roller coaster, he sat on the sidelines with us. Ben, Mimi and Anthony however loves it. By accident I overheard Ben say to Mimi as they were sitting in their car together "Mimi, scoot out a little bit so that Anthony can't sit here. He'll have to sit in another seat". Sure enough Mimi scooted over and Anthony sat in another car. Ben then sat closer to Mimi.

If this is a sign of things to come, I'm going to be in biiiig trouble. I'm going to have to call my friend Terry and tell him to send those rocks now.

Tomorrow Mimi and Ben will "Ride the Ducks".

AMUSEMENT PARK AT THE SPACE NEEDLE

This has been one crazy day. However it is not unusual for us to have a crazy day most of the time. Ben (far right) and his family came up here to Seattle (actually Port Angeles) from Vancouver, Washington to visit with relatives. His mom Patricia e-mailed me a while back asking if we could meet with them on Sept. 1st while they are here in Seattle. I said that would be fine as Mimi does not start school until the 2nd. We made plans to meet at the Space Needle for 11:15 a.m.

Well you may have guessed it by now, she got the dates mixed up. She called my house at 11:15 saying "We're here now!". I'm thinking that she is calling to let me know that she and the family got into town from Port Angeles and they are at the hotel. "Where are you?" Patricial asks me. I answered "We're at home. Why?" "Aren't we supposed to meet at 11:15 at the gift shop at the Space Needle cause we're here now." Patricia says. I then reminded her that we are supposed to meet on the 1st of September and that today is the 31st of August. She was soooo embarassed cause she got the dates mixed up.

In the meantime I am at home cleanning my house in my pj's. I do that from time to time. Blake was at the house because he did not want to go to the doctor and watch the doctor take out the pins from Keri's pinky finger (another story for another time). So needless to say, I showered and got dressed, Mimi and Blake were already ready to go, then I got the ok from Keri to take Blake with us and we hit the road. As usual we took the light rail and then the monorail. Much faster and cheaper that way.

We get to the Space Needle and who do we see? It's none other than Caitlyn and Conner our neighbors from down the street.

THE STRIKE IS ON.......

At least in the Kent School District it is. Several of Mimi's friends, Sara, Chris and Alex were supposed to start school today but cannot. Their teachers are still on strike. However on the other hand I'm quite sure Sara is happy about it as it gives her more time to spend with big sis Tasha as she gets ready to go to Cornish University starting today. Tasha moved out of the house yesterday and they have their first family meeting at school today. Sara totally adores her big sister "Tash" and so does Mimi.

Mimi begins school this coming Wednesday. Today I am planning to get a lot of the laundry done. Tomorrow we will go over to Halliwell's house for a "End Of Summer Vacation Breakfast" before taking the light rail into downtown Seattle. We have plans to meet with Ben and his mom Patricia while they are here visitly relatives in Port Angeles. The sad part is that we will only be able to spend a couple of hours with them. I guess that is better than nothing at all. Then it will be time to head over to the gym for Mimi first team gymnastic class of the season.