Actually the day started off quite nice then at 1;30 p.m. it went on a one way trip down to hell. Mimi had made plans to play with her friend Alex. That was fine. I dropped her off at his house behind our neighborhood park then proceeded to go to four corners to fill up the gas tank and then get my SUV cleanned at the Elephant Carwash. Everything went fine till I got to the carwash. DO NOT EVER GO THERE! YOU WILL GET ROBBED! They charge $18.00 to do a crappy job of cleanning your car. I still had to clean my car after they were "finished". There was still dog hair and dried mud all over the back part of the car from where we go skiing every weekend and take Butch along with us. The people at the carwash was not happy with the fact that I was taking my time cleanning out my own car. They told me "I have a $80,000.00 Mercedes behind you that I do not want to get into an accident!" I said "Not my problem. Had you done your job correctly we would not be in this situation!" The people who were sitting and just watching me taking the kids trash and dumping it, all of a sudden were standing and rubber necking. It takes a lot for me to get this upset and they were pushing every last one of my buttons. The M to the A to the damn DEA came out in me. The stinky part about this whole situation they are just about the only full serve carwash in the whole darn state of Washington. If someone wants to make it rich, just open a California carwash where they charge $7.00 plus tip and do a whole lot better job. There just isn't any competition up here.
Next thing I knew it was time to pick up Mimi and dad and head over to South Center Mall for movies and dinner. Dad went to see Avatar which he said was fantastic. Super great. He saw in 3D. I was still fuming about the carwash however ice cream always makes you feel better until Ben & Jerry's charged me $8.00 for 2 small dishes plus a small bottle of water. Mimi then pulled a fast one on me. When I was not looking she stole my ice cream. The little thief! I did not really need it anyway. Dad was still at the movies so we went to buy a few items for the father/daughter ball coming up in March. Then at 6:00 we found out that the movie was 3 hours long! One more hour to go before it let out! That's it! We are going to get dinner without dad. Mimi wanted to go to the Rainforest Cafe so that's what we did. We then found out that it would be another hour wait but that is what the girl wanted, so ok, that's what we did. Dad came down and met up with us and we had dinner. The unfortunate part about dinner is that unlike Red Robins, they don't give free refills on the mac 'n' cheese. I think they should.
I think that I am done with the Elephant Carwash, Ben and Jerry's and the Rainforest Cafe for a long time to come.
