COW TIPPING

Since Mimi is on the gymnastic team, she gets to do "circus" activities. Her gym also has students learning circus stunts and since Mimi is on the team, she gets to do these kind of activites for free of charge. So.....for the past couple of weeks we have been coming here every Friday night. Elsie likes doing it too. Plus it gets her out of the house and she gets to have some fun.

While waiting for Mimi, I got a chance to talk with Rhonda and another mom by the name of Kim. We started off talking about some of the new developments that will be going up here in Maple Valley in the next 10-15 years or so.

One new developement is that there is a new Fred Meyers that will be built right across the Safeway near our home. This has quite a few of the moms up in arms. They all say that we do not want or need another Freddie's when we can drive 6 miles down the road to Covington.

A few years back when we first moved up here there was a huge article in the local paper stating that many of the residents do not want big box stores moving in. Fred Meyers found a loop hole. There is a small section of land across from the Maple Valley Safeway market that is actually the city of Kent and that is where Freddies is going up. So legally they are not in Maple Valley.

What the families really want up here is a movie theater or something for the teenagers to do in order to stay out of trouble.

So when Rhonda asked Kim what the teens do in Enumclaw which is a farming community, Kim answered that when the kids get bored they go "cow tipping". Enumclaw is located just a few miles south of the Black Diamond Bakery. Lots of dairy farms out there.

Of course being the city gal that I am, I asked "What is cow tipping?" Kim says that cows sleep standing up and the kids will go in an give the cows a push and they tip over. I cracked up laughing. It just seem so funny to me at the time. Maybe it's because I am just plain exhausted.

When I mentioned this to dad, he says "I'll bet that's where they got the idea for Disney's movie "Cars" Yeah, don't you remember? That's what Mater does in the Cars movie!" You're right dad!