I picked up the girls from Sunday school (no, the lawn didn't get mowed, it rained much more than I thought last night... more on this in a moment), and we went to get some lunch. During lunch we talked about what we wanted to do today. Several ideas were tossed about. Bike riding, scootering, kite flying, movie watching, park playing, zoo going. Good choices, all. And, I figured we could get a few of those into the day.
They had been bugging me for weeks to go kite flying. We didn't have any kites, so we went to Target and picked up a $3 Barbie kite. I figured we'd see how that went and then get a better kite or two if they liked it. After picking up the kite, we went to a nearby park and had ourselves twenty minutes of fun. That's right, a whole twenty minutes. We had a catastrophic kite crash that broke one of the platic wing supports. Definitely not worth $3 yet.
So we put ourselves back into the car and headed over to my dad's house. I knew I didn't have any superglue at the house, and my dad has everything known to man when it comes to adhesives, cleansers, or tools. On the way to my dad's, I went through a deeper than expected puddle of muddy water (left over from the previous night's rain), which is usually not a big deal in the VUE. However, when it is a fantastic day outside, mud puddles not withstanding, and you have the windows and sunroof open, splashing through those puddles of mud is not the brightest idea.
There was muddy water everywhere. Outside and inside. On me, the passenger seat, on the girls (just a little), and on the back seat. The girls would have gotten it much worse had they been sitting straight up. As they were both leaning against a door, the majority of the water went on the seat between them. I had to pull into a gas station, get the paper towels out of the back and start wiping down the seats. Before we pulled out of the gas station, I went ahead and zipped through the car wash. Had to remove all evidence of my stupidity. Though, several times later in the day, I ended up discovering mud that I had missed during the cleanup.
Anyway, when we finally got to my dad's house, we superglued the plastic kite support back together, and then took a couple additional pieces of plastic (excess from model kits) and fortified both supports with the plastic, superglue, and then with a hot glue gun. After letting that dry for a little, we went back out for more. Much more careful of the puddles this time.
Our earlier kiting experiement was a little lacking in consistent wind, so this time we went up to Lake Hefner. It's a hot spot for kiting enthusiasts because of the steady wind. And it was much better for us, too. The girls took turns flying that kite for probably an hour and a half. We had another catastropic crash, which caused the piece of plastic that connected to the string to tear off. Fortunately, the kite was reversible, meaning it could be rigged to fly on either side, so we flipped it over, attached the string to the other side and pressed on. I think the girls had a lot of fun, which is difficult to do for just three bucks.
After flying the kite, we were supposed to go scootering, but they wanted to play at the nearby park instead. After awhile of that, they asked about seeing Scooby Doo 2, so we headed up to Quail Springs Mall since we were already up that way, and we caught a showing of the Scooby sequel. It wasn't bad for they type of movie it was, and the girls liked it, but I'm not so sure it lived up to the hype.
We had ourselves a very filling dinner at the mall, and then we headed home for our second baths of the day, since we had a lot of outside play as well as a mud bath. However, Darby is presently on my bad side, because I asked her this morning before Sunday school if she did her homework on Friday at her mother's like I asked her to do and she said yes. When we got home I asked to see her homework to check it and it was barely started, much less done. Argh. So, she is still up as I type, finishing her homework.
So, except for the whole lying to your father about homework part, we had a pretty fun, jam packed day, for not too much money.
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