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Saturday, September 27, 2003

fun afternoon

This will just be a quick, not-very-witty entry because in a few minutes I'm getting off the computer. The kids and I are going to have a stay-up-late-and-play-boardgames kind of night. Watch out, "Leave it to Beaver"; here comes something wholesomer. ;-)



We just had such a great afternoon. We went to Fresno with the goal of buying a family zoo membership, which is something I've been wanting to do for a while. We got there at two, and when we went to buy our membership we were told that all zoo members had free passes to Storyland AND all the rides at "Playland" today. Only problem was, the rides shut down at 4 along with the zoo (which I had expected to be open till 6), and Storyland was only open till 5:30. So we had a limited amount of time to do everything. We decided to skip the zoo for today, since we'll be able to do that for free for a year (criminy, I hope it's not for the rest of this year; gotta log onto their website and check that out...), and just enjoy the other two places. We had an absolute blast, it was the best day in a long time. I just wish T could have been there, and I wish I'd brought my camera. Next time. There were so many places in Storyland that I remembered from my own childhood -- I hadn't been in there since I was about seven. And the kids enjoyed themselves there immensely. (LT: "I sure liked Storyland better than I thought I would. I thought it would just be a bunch of boring people reading stories."). Their favorite thing in there was King Arthur's castle, which of course was renamed by them as Cair Paravel, and they took turns sitting on the throne pretending to be King Peter and Queen Lucy.


I keep forgetting to post about something I find hugely amusing. You know (well, if you're not the parent of someone who is or recently was a preschooler, you might not know) that guy Steve from Blue's Clue's? Well, I know this sounds like one of those urban legend things (why are they called that, I wonder, when they spread equally well in rural areas? anyone?), but it is really and truly true that he is now a singer/songwriter and has released an album. The music is pretty decent -- let's just say that if a really famous alternative musician came out with songs like his you might go, huh? but if your next-door neighbor's teenaged son's garage band could play this well, you might actually set up a lawn chair and listen. You can look at his website and listen to some of his music at www.steveswebpage.com. Drat, I wish I'd been the one to come up with that mouseover-face thing first, it's really kind of cool. Anyway, there's my goofy link for today. :)

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