We hit a couple of milestones this week. Priya got a balance bike for her birthday, and she was so excited. The problem is she really, really hates it. However, we've found that if she takes off her boot, she can ride on her tricycle with no problems, and she is so happy about it. Literally she rode for 4 hours the other day. She would have beat triathletes. I'd put cash money on that. She's very pleased with herself, and she should be.
Mirinda has been riding the balance bike for quite some time, and has become really good at it. It was time to move her up to a real bike with training wheels so we went to Walmart to shop for one. It took about 45 minutes of coaching before she figured out that she had to keep pedaling. She would start pedaling and it would freak her out that she was moving forward, so she'd stop herself. Finally she figured it out and then she wouldn't stop. She rode all over the aisles. I feel bad for the family she crashed into, but the doctors say they'll survive.
They didn't have the model she wanted at the store, so we bought it online, and it came last night. The problem with buying it online is you have to put it together. But I'm a man, and men are supposed to be able to do this sort of thing. After 2 hours the bike was finally put together enough to go outside. Then I had one of those moments as a dad when you feel like you've failed your kids. The handlebars were loose cause I hadn't tightened them correctly, and to tighten them was a process that involved 130 steps apparently. I also didn't have a tire pump, so I needed to go to the store to get one, and there was a storm coming in. The wind was so strong that it started pushing Priya cause the kid only ways 10 pounds. So I told the girls we needed to go inside and Mirinda could ride her bike tomorrow. Mirinda started crying, and I can totally see why. I would have done the same at her age. She was so excited, and I just couldn't get the job done. So I do what dad's do, and told them I would buy them ice cream. I did get the tires pumped up and the bike is ready to go. Mirinda got to ride it in the garage, but she couldn't do much. She can ride it today, of course it snowed at the end of March cause that's what we do in Utah.
I got them a chocolate malted almond concrete from Nielsen's. If you've never been there I highly recommend it. They're pretty big, so I figured they'd eat some and I'd eat the rest. By the time I got done with the bike they had eaten the entire thing. Those girls would do anything for chocolate ice cream.
Lagoon opens up tomorrow, so if you want to know where we are on a Saturday, we're at Lagoon. The girls never really get tired of it. I keep thinking they will, but they're excited to go every time. I highly recommend season passes. I know it seems expensive, but you're basically paying for activities for the family from the end of March to the end of October. It's seriously worth it. When you have a season pass you don't worry about staying there all day and killing yourself over it. You go for a few hours until the kids are tired and then you go home. It's fantastic. If you do buy a season pass, tell them it was me that convinced you to do it. I'm trying to get Lagoon to start paying me commissions on how many people I've convinced to get season passes.
Can we stop with the remakes of classic shows? A remake is coming out later this year of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. That's one of my favorite films. But in this one it's two women. Anne Hathaway is playing the Michael Cane part, and Rebel Wilson is playing the Steve Martin part. I've never found her funny. I realize I'm not the demographic for Pitch Perfect, but I'm not sure why she would want to take on a role like the one Steve Martin did. Instead of doing a remake of an incredible show that doesn't need to be remade, just write a script for a movie about two con artists who are women. That would be better. Make it a new thing, instead of rehashing old stuff. It's lazy.
They're remaking Steel Magnolias as well, and I think that one upsets me the most. You have to understand there was one summer that we literally watched that show 2 to 3 times a day. I'm not sure why. It's an extremely depressing show. We were bored and there was nothing else to do. I actually took a Steel Magnolias quiz and got 30 out of 30. We'd watch that and Silence of the Lambs, so that gives you an idea of why I am the way I am.
The part that frustrates me the most about this remake is I was not asked to audition for the part of Shelby. My sister Ashley and I do the scene from Steel Magnolias where Shelby is getting her hair done and begins to crash with low blood sugar, and her mother helps her. I play Shelby and Ashley plays the Sally Fields part M'Lynn. It will change your life to witness that scene. I'm not kidding. You'll be in tears for various reasons. I don't like to brag, but I play the part better than Julia Roberts plays the part. Plus my lips don't get so huge when I cry. Maybe we'll film it and put it on YouTube. We'll get a crack at being in the remake. This could be our big break.
Thank you for reading! Go to Nielsen's and get a concrete. They take VISA now, which is a huge deal. VISA hasn't been around very long. If you like what you're reading please share it with your friends, and feel free to comment. I love the comments! Otherwise I feel like I'm writing into a black hole.
Friday, March 29, 2019
Friday, March 22, 2019
Come on Chuck E Cheese
I'm glad to see how many of you understand my pain when it comes to kids shows. I feel like it was a bonding moment.
Priya had a birthday this week, so I have a 4 and a 5 year old now. She was so excited. We had her home before her birthday, but it was only a few weeks before her birthday, and she was still pretty shell shocked with all that had happened to her, so we didn't hold a big party. We just had some cake and ice cream, and some presents. We figured getting her out of the orphanage was a pretty big present. Honestly, we just didn't want to overwhelm her.
Now she's had an entire year of watching everyone else have a birthday, and she felt it was time for her birthday party. She's been talking about it constantly for the last two weeks, and making sure I knew it was her birthday, not anyone else.
The night before her birthday I took Mirinda to Costco to get Priya a present. We found a cute pajama set, and Mirinda wanted to get it for her, but she wanted a set too. I told her it was for Priya's birthday, and it wouldn't be very fair if she got a present too when it was Priya's birthday. She was upset by this at first, but we did some other shopping. As we were going to leave she asked about getting Priya's birthday present, and I asked her if she was OK just getting one for Priya, and she said yes, and was very happy about it. That was a proud father moment. She is an amazing big sister to Priya. Those two weirdos never cease to amaze me.
We had the birthday party at Chuck E Cheese. Holy crap birthday parties cost a lot of money. But the girls had gone to a birthday party earlier in the year there and were very excited to have their own. We had cupcakes and ice cream. Priya was so please with being sung to, and so excited to blow the candles out she blew them out before the song ended. She got a lot of really nice presents.
If you haven't been to Chuck E Cheese in a while they don't do the animatronic band like they used to. They do have a robot Chuck E Cheese, but all he does is move his head every once in a while, and stare out you like he's trying to decide what he's going to eat first. Instead of the robots, they have big screens where the characters as puppets will sing songs and do little comedy bits.
We were about to start everyone playing games when the screens came up with someone announcing that Chuck E Cheese will be coming in 7 minutes. I told Priya that Chuck E Cheese was coming and she got very excited. The screen stayed on, and the announcer continued talking about how exciting it was that Chuck E Cheese was coming in 7 minutes. The countdown continued, and now Chuck E Cheese was coming in 6 minutes. 6 minutes! The announcer is now backstage talking to Chuck E Cheese, and Chuck E Cheese is talking about how excited he is to meet everyone. Now we're down to 5 minutes until Chuck E Cheese comes, and the excitement is ramping up. There are kids dancing on the screen, overcome with joy at the prospect of meeting Chuck E Cheese. Now we hit the 4 minute mark, and the excitement can barely be contained. Children are openly weeping because Chuck E Cheese will soon be coming. Now we're at 3 minutes, and it was just like that scene in Temple of Doom when the kids are freed and are running out of the cave to greet their parents for the first time in years. That's how much joy was in the faces of these children. Now 2 minutes have come until Chuck E Cheese comes, and I didn't know that much excitement existed in the world. Chuck E Cheese will come to right our wrongs and smite our enemies. Now we're at a minute left. The kids on the screen and off the screen have started a bonfire and are dancing in tribute to Chuck E Cheese. The countdown starts at 10 seconds left. It is complete bedlam, all sense of law and order have left because Chuck E Cheese has finally come.
Out of a side door walks Chuck E Cheese, and he stands there doing nothing for about 30 seconds just staring at the children. My nephew is so excited he leaps towards Chuck E Cheese to give him a hug, and Chuck E Cheese does nothing but give a small wave. Then Chuck E Cheese slowly walks to the other side of the building, not interacting with the children in any way. As he's walking towards us we tell him that we have a birthday girl here, and he turns, puts his hands out, and almost shrugs, then continues walking to the other side of the building. As he walks past me I could have sworn I could here someone screaming inside the suit. Chuck E Cheese slowly walks to the other side of the building, stays there for a while, and then slowly walks back. When he gets back he's locked out of the door, and stands there awkwardly until someone opens it for him.
Come on Chuck E Cheese.
Despite the incredibly unenthusiastic mascot, Priya really enjoyed her party. I think next time I'll ask to put the costume on though. Light that place up.
So that's my recommendation for the week. Go to Chuck E Cheese on 2100 south because it actually is a nice place and pretty clean, but don't get your hopes up for Chuck E Cheese unless you really, really like seeing your children be disappointed.
As always thanks for reading!
Priya had a birthday this week, so I have a 4 and a 5 year old now. She was so excited. We had her home before her birthday, but it was only a few weeks before her birthday, and she was still pretty shell shocked with all that had happened to her, so we didn't hold a big party. We just had some cake and ice cream, and some presents. We figured getting her out of the orphanage was a pretty big present. Honestly, we just didn't want to overwhelm her.
Now she's had an entire year of watching everyone else have a birthday, and she felt it was time for her birthday party. She's been talking about it constantly for the last two weeks, and making sure I knew it was her birthday, not anyone else.
The night before her birthday I took Mirinda to Costco to get Priya a present. We found a cute pajama set, and Mirinda wanted to get it for her, but she wanted a set too. I told her it was for Priya's birthday, and it wouldn't be very fair if she got a present too when it was Priya's birthday. She was upset by this at first, but we did some other shopping. As we were going to leave she asked about getting Priya's birthday present, and I asked her if she was OK just getting one for Priya, and she said yes, and was very happy about it. That was a proud father moment. She is an amazing big sister to Priya. Those two weirdos never cease to amaze me.
We had the birthday party at Chuck E Cheese. Holy crap birthday parties cost a lot of money. But the girls had gone to a birthday party earlier in the year there and were very excited to have their own. We had cupcakes and ice cream. Priya was so please with being sung to, and so excited to blow the candles out she blew them out before the song ended. She got a lot of really nice presents.
If you haven't been to Chuck E Cheese in a while they don't do the animatronic band like they used to. They do have a robot Chuck E Cheese, but all he does is move his head every once in a while, and stare out you like he's trying to decide what he's going to eat first. Instead of the robots, they have big screens where the characters as puppets will sing songs and do little comedy bits.
We were about to start everyone playing games when the screens came up with someone announcing that Chuck E Cheese will be coming in 7 minutes. I told Priya that Chuck E Cheese was coming and she got very excited. The screen stayed on, and the announcer continued talking about how exciting it was that Chuck E Cheese was coming in 7 minutes. The countdown continued, and now Chuck E Cheese was coming in 6 minutes. 6 minutes! The announcer is now backstage talking to Chuck E Cheese, and Chuck E Cheese is talking about how excited he is to meet everyone. Now we're down to 5 minutes until Chuck E Cheese comes, and the excitement is ramping up. There are kids dancing on the screen, overcome with joy at the prospect of meeting Chuck E Cheese. Now we hit the 4 minute mark, and the excitement can barely be contained. Children are openly weeping because Chuck E Cheese will soon be coming. Now we're at 3 minutes, and it was just like that scene in Temple of Doom when the kids are freed and are running out of the cave to greet their parents for the first time in years. That's how much joy was in the faces of these children. Now 2 minutes have come until Chuck E Cheese comes, and I didn't know that much excitement existed in the world. Chuck E Cheese will come to right our wrongs and smite our enemies. Now we're at a minute left. The kids on the screen and off the screen have started a bonfire and are dancing in tribute to Chuck E Cheese. The countdown starts at 10 seconds left. It is complete bedlam, all sense of law and order have left because Chuck E Cheese has finally come.
Out of a side door walks Chuck E Cheese, and he stands there doing nothing for about 30 seconds just staring at the children. My nephew is so excited he leaps towards Chuck E Cheese to give him a hug, and Chuck E Cheese does nothing but give a small wave. Then Chuck E Cheese slowly walks to the other side of the building, not interacting with the children in any way. As he's walking towards us we tell him that we have a birthday girl here, and he turns, puts his hands out, and almost shrugs, then continues walking to the other side of the building. As he walks past me I could have sworn I could here someone screaming inside the suit. Chuck E Cheese slowly walks to the other side of the building, stays there for a while, and then slowly walks back. When he gets back he's locked out of the door, and stands there awkwardly until someone opens it for him.
Come on Chuck E Cheese.
Despite the incredibly unenthusiastic mascot, Priya really enjoyed her party. I think next time I'll ask to put the costume on though. Light that place up.
So that's my recommendation for the week. Go to Chuck E Cheese on 2100 south because it actually is a nice place and pretty clean, but don't get your hopes up for Chuck E Cheese unless you really, really like seeing your children be disappointed.
As always thanks for reading!
Friday, March 15, 2019
I miss He-Man
My goal right now is to teach my daughters how to play hide and seek by the time they go to college. Seriously. It's hilarious to play with them because I tell them to count to 20 and they count to 6, and then they laugh uncontrollably in the hiding place they've chosen, which is the same one they've chosen the last 3 turns. College is a good goal.
There's a bill out right now to switch over to daylight savings all the time. It's finally getting a voice. It was interesting because Fox 13 ran a story about it. A representative down in Provo wanted this bill, and she kept getting told it was frivolous and a waste of time. That's incredibly annoying. After Fox ran the story, I think there was a huge backlash of people because suddenly the bill got a hearing and passed, so it may be on the ballot to vote. That would help winter time a lot. Hopefully it's finally over.
There's a lot of horrible kids shows out there, and my daughters seem to like most of them. They love Super Why. It's a PBS show about kids that live in a library with super powers, but the lamest super powers ever. The voice actors are pretty horrible. Wyatt, who becomes Super Why, has a Super Duper computer, but it's tethered. If it's a super duper computer at least let it be wireless. Otherwise call it the old computer I found in my mom's basement. That would be a better name for it.
Recently they've started to watch a Netflix original called Little Monsters. It's about a preschool for monsters children. Here's the issue. During the show they change from their monster form into their human form like 50 times. I'm not kidding. It's every 2 minutes they each have to go back and forth. There's one girl with blue skin and dreadlocks who can see through and walk through walls, and it took me 3 episodes to figure out she was a zombie. They had lunch, and she wasn't eating the flesh of the living, which I found odd. The thing about the changing back and forth every two minutes is there parents don't change their appearance. Before the kids can go home they have to change into their human form, but the parents pick them up in their monster form. Wouldn't that be a cause for alarm? Frankenstein's monster in a car with a little boy would probably raise some eyebrows. One of the kids is a dragon for some reason, and his mom flies to the school to pick him up, then flies off with him in his human form. I think that would freak people out.
The worst has to be Llama Llama. It's based on the book Llama Llama Red Pajama. The book is cute, but holy crap this is the worst show ever. It's about Llama Llama who is a 6 year old llama and lives alone with his mom. The mom isn't married, and she wears a power suit from the 80's. I'm pretty sure shoulder pads are drawn into it. He doesn't have a dad, and they never reference why, but I've made up a back story for that. It's pretty dark. I keep waiting in every episode for his mom to finally snap. Maybe next season.
His friends are pretty strange too. Theirs Nelly Nu, who I keep forgetting if she's a boy or a girl. Her mom is the butchest mom I've ever seen drawn. She's more butch than the dad is. He's got a giraffe friend with social anxieties, and goat friend that's a bully. In one episode they actually call him a bully goat. A lamb friend that always wears a suit and does experiments, and in one episode he was in a bike race and put a sail behind him to make him go faster. It didn't work and I threw stuff at my TV. In one episode the giraffe with social anxieties invites everyone over to see her new swimsuit for some reason. Then they decide they should all go to the beach. To celebrate this momentous decision, they put their arms out and fly around the yard. I'm still trying to figure it out. The police man is a flamingo for some reason too. There are rhino twins who for some reason have never said a word. I have a dark backstory about them.
Another one they love is Sofia the First. Mirinda has been watching this for a while, and Priya likes it now too. It started out as a fish out of water story. The king falls in love with a single mom and the village and marries her. It never mentions where her husband or his wife went, but again I have a dark backstory for that. I might have to submit some fanfiction to the writers of the show. As a result of the wedding Sofia is now a princess and she has to figure out how to be a princess and still be herself. The first few seasons are cute, and the music was pretty good. I think we're on season 5 at this point. Now she is a guardian of another planet, rides a flying unicorn, and her amulet can make her do stuff like turn into a purple dragon. I wish I was making this up.
I do like Peppa Pig though. That is a quality show. I'd probably watch that if I didn't have kids.
I appreciate you letting me get that off my chest. At least I can entertain myself during the 3rd hour of the Llama Llama marathon by making up dark backstories. Man I'm glad spring is coming and we can get outside.
I don't really have any recommendations this week as I've been too busy watching crappy kids shows. If you have any recommendations for me I'd love to hear them. Just know if any of them are Cafe Rio I will mock you.
And Captain Marvel is really meh. C-
There's a bill out right now to switch over to daylight savings all the time. It's finally getting a voice. It was interesting because Fox 13 ran a story about it. A representative down in Provo wanted this bill, and she kept getting told it was frivolous and a waste of time. That's incredibly annoying. After Fox ran the story, I think there was a huge backlash of people because suddenly the bill got a hearing and passed, so it may be on the ballot to vote. That would help winter time a lot. Hopefully it's finally over.
There's a lot of horrible kids shows out there, and my daughters seem to like most of them. They love Super Why. It's a PBS show about kids that live in a library with super powers, but the lamest super powers ever. The voice actors are pretty horrible. Wyatt, who becomes Super Why, has a Super Duper computer, but it's tethered. If it's a super duper computer at least let it be wireless. Otherwise call it the old computer I found in my mom's basement. That would be a better name for it.
Recently they've started to watch a Netflix original called Little Monsters. It's about a preschool for monsters children. Here's the issue. During the show they change from their monster form into their human form like 50 times. I'm not kidding. It's every 2 minutes they each have to go back and forth. There's one girl with blue skin and dreadlocks who can see through and walk through walls, and it took me 3 episodes to figure out she was a zombie. They had lunch, and she wasn't eating the flesh of the living, which I found odd. The thing about the changing back and forth every two minutes is there parents don't change their appearance. Before the kids can go home they have to change into their human form, but the parents pick them up in their monster form. Wouldn't that be a cause for alarm? Frankenstein's monster in a car with a little boy would probably raise some eyebrows. One of the kids is a dragon for some reason, and his mom flies to the school to pick him up, then flies off with him in his human form. I think that would freak people out.
The worst has to be Llama Llama. It's based on the book Llama Llama Red Pajama. The book is cute, but holy crap this is the worst show ever. It's about Llama Llama who is a 6 year old llama and lives alone with his mom. The mom isn't married, and she wears a power suit from the 80's. I'm pretty sure shoulder pads are drawn into it. He doesn't have a dad, and they never reference why, but I've made up a back story for that. It's pretty dark. I keep waiting in every episode for his mom to finally snap. Maybe next season.
His friends are pretty strange too. Theirs Nelly Nu, who I keep forgetting if she's a boy or a girl. Her mom is the butchest mom I've ever seen drawn. She's more butch than the dad is. He's got a giraffe friend with social anxieties, and goat friend that's a bully. In one episode they actually call him a bully goat. A lamb friend that always wears a suit and does experiments, and in one episode he was in a bike race and put a sail behind him to make him go faster. It didn't work and I threw stuff at my TV. In one episode the giraffe with social anxieties invites everyone over to see her new swimsuit for some reason. Then they decide they should all go to the beach. To celebrate this momentous decision, they put their arms out and fly around the yard. I'm still trying to figure it out. The police man is a flamingo for some reason too. There are rhino twins who for some reason have never said a word. I have a dark backstory about them.
Another one they love is Sofia the First. Mirinda has been watching this for a while, and Priya likes it now too. It started out as a fish out of water story. The king falls in love with a single mom and the village and marries her. It never mentions where her husband or his wife went, but again I have a dark backstory for that. I might have to submit some fanfiction to the writers of the show. As a result of the wedding Sofia is now a princess and she has to figure out how to be a princess and still be herself. The first few seasons are cute, and the music was pretty good. I think we're on season 5 at this point. Now she is a guardian of another planet, rides a flying unicorn, and her amulet can make her do stuff like turn into a purple dragon. I wish I was making this up.
I do like Peppa Pig though. That is a quality show. I'd probably watch that if I didn't have kids.
I appreciate you letting me get that off my chest. At least I can entertain myself during the 3rd hour of the Llama Llama marathon by making up dark backstories. Man I'm glad spring is coming and we can get outside.
I don't really have any recommendations this week as I've been too busy watching crappy kids shows. If you have any recommendations for me I'd love to hear them. Just know if any of them are Cafe Rio I will mock you.
And Captain Marvel is really meh. C-
Friday, March 8, 2019
Rapunzel wasn't such a bad idea
I found out more about that momo thing. It started out as just a joke, but then the news decided to make it a story because it was probably a slow news day, and now people are purposely putting it into videos to get clicks. The solution? Don't freaking got to youtube. It's a wretched hive of scum and villainy. Don't let your kids on there either. And don't post the picture on my page Jake. You know who you are. Apparently they make masks out of the face in Japan. It's supposed to be a mother bird. If I was a bird, and that was my mom, I'd be leaping from the nest. While I was still in the egg.
We had a fantastic time in St George. Of course we brought the rain with us. It never rains in southern California or St. George, but it sure does when we are there. We had one good day of weather before the rain came. On Friday we drove to Vegas. I love Vegas for about a day. Not all aspects of Vegas, but I love the food. After a day I'm good though. I don't think the family we went with were prepared for all the food I wanted to eat. We ate at the Paris Buffet, which is a good cheaper (relatively) buffet. For lunch it's usually about $22 a person. For Vegas buffet that's pretty cheap, unless you want to go to Fremont Street, which you should never do. Fremont Street is the youtube of Vegas.
Walking down the Strip was interesting because I was pushing a wagon with four kids in it, and Bubba had a baby strapped to his chest, and Amy and Tiff were walking behind us. So I looked like I was dealing in human trafficking, Bubba looked like the guy from the Hangover, and we looked like we were married. If you're getting strange looks from people on the strip, you look pretty strange.
I've always talked about how boy crazy Mirinda is, but holy crap. Their oldest boy Charlie is a really cute kid, but the looks Mirinda was giving him I never want to see on her face again until her wedding day. She was obsessed with him. At one point they were sitting in the wagon together and Mirinda had her head on his shoulder. I had to keep reminding myself that they're kids, but suddenly the idea of Rapunzel doesn't sound like such a bad idea. At least Charlie is a good kid. He's not playing with razor blades or lighting cats on fire or anything like that. But seriously girl, calm down. We had a few different talks about how important it is to be OK with yourself before anything else. I don't think she understood what I was saying, but my plan is to have that talk with her every day from now until the time she turns 16. Then we'll move to that talk twice a day. Or the tall tower and shave her bald. We'll see how it goes.
We did all the things you do with kids in Vegas. Went to the M&M store, Coke store and Hershey's store. We did the soda from around the world thing at the Coke store, which I recommend. I don't recommend it because it's good. Some are good, but some of the drinks have to be from communist countries. I think only communists could enjoy some of those drinks. I'm not sure if Karl Marx ever wrote about what kind of soda to drink. I'll have to wikipedia that bad boy.
On Saturday we went to Veyo. If you've never been there it's a little town about 20 miles north of St George. There's a little pie shop in Veyo that's been there for 30 years, and it is amazing. All of their pies are delicious. They also make an incredible pot pie that I highly recommend. It's worth the trip if you're ever in St George. We also had Croshaw's pies in St George, which were also excellent. I'm not kidding about traveling and food. The trick is to use Trip Advisor. Go on Trip Advisor and search for the top restaurants in that area, and pick any one of the top five, and you're in for a great food experience. The only time it has failed me is in Salt Lake, where for a long time the number one was Bombay House. There are much better Indian places in Salt Lake than Bombay House. Now the number one is Takashi, which is pretty great.
Priya got her cast off yesterday, and she's pretty happy about it. She loves baths, loves anything to do with water. She got a water table playset for her birthday (it's in a couple weeks, but she saw the box when it was delivered and nothing would stop her from wanting it open. Not the cold, not a militia, nothing. I'm a big guy and I was scared not to let her open it). We got it set up, but then she was upset she couldn't play with it until her cast came off. She'll have about a month and a half of freedom before the surgery. Poor kid.
Alright for my recommendation this week, do a search for a local bakery. No, not Kneaders or Paradise bakery. Those places are not good. I'm talking an actual local bakery. Do a search and you'll be surprised how many there are. Schmidt's is ok. Some of their things are really good, and some are really mediocre. Their danishes are not good. Go and try a bakery you've never tried before. Not Kneaders or Paradise.
Thanks for reading! Winter is throwing one last tantrum for the next week, but spring will come, and it will be glorious.
We had a fantastic time in St George. Of course we brought the rain with us. It never rains in southern California or St. George, but it sure does when we are there. We had one good day of weather before the rain came. On Friday we drove to Vegas. I love Vegas for about a day. Not all aspects of Vegas, but I love the food. After a day I'm good though. I don't think the family we went with were prepared for all the food I wanted to eat. We ate at the Paris Buffet, which is a good cheaper (relatively) buffet. For lunch it's usually about $22 a person. For Vegas buffet that's pretty cheap, unless you want to go to Fremont Street, which you should never do. Fremont Street is the youtube of Vegas.
Walking down the Strip was interesting because I was pushing a wagon with four kids in it, and Bubba had a baby strapped to his chest, and Amy and Tiff were walking behind us. So I looked like I was dealing in human trafficking, Bubba looked like the guy from the Hangover, and we looked like we were married. If you're getting strange looks from people on the strip, you look pretty strange.
I've always talked about how boy crazy Mirinda is, but holy crap. Their oldest boy Charlie is a really cute kid, but the looks Mirinda was giving him I never want to see on her face again until her wedding day. She was obsessed with him. At one point they were sitting in the wagon together and Mirinda had her head on his shoulder. I had to keep reminding myself that they're kids, but suddenly the idea of Rapunzel doesn't sound like such a bad idea. At least Charlie is a good kid. He's not playing with razor blades or lighting cats on fire or anything like that. But seriously girl, calm down. We had a few different talks about how important it is to be OK with yourself before anything else. I don't think she understood what I was saying, but my plan is to have that talk with her every day from now until the time she turns 16. Then we'll move to that talk twice a day. Or the tall tower and shave her bald. We'll see how it goes.
We did all the things you do with kids in Vegas. Went to the M&M store, Coke store and Hershey's store. We did the soda from around the world thing at the Coke store, which I recommend. I don't recommend it because it's good. Some are good, but some of the drinks have to be from communist countries. I think only communists could enjoy some of those drinks. I'm not sure if Karl Marx ever wrote about what kind of soda to drink. I'll have to wikipedia that bad boy.
On Saturday we went to Veyo. If you've never been there it's a little town about 20 miles north of St George. There's a little pie shop in Veyo that's been there for 30 years, and it is amazing. All of their pies are delicious. They also make an incredible pot pie that I highly recommend. It's worth the trip if you're ever in St George. We also had Croshaw's pies in St George, which were also excellent. I'm not kidding about traveling and food. The trick is to use Trip Advisor. Go on Trip Advisor and search for the top restaurants in that area, and pick any one of the top five, and you're in for a great food experience. The only time it has failed me is in Salt Lake, where for a long time the number one was Bombay House. There are much better Indian places in Salt Lake than Bombay House. Now the number one is Takashi, which is pretty great.
Priya got her cast off yesterday, and she's pretty happy about it. She loves baths, loves anything to do with water. She got a water table playset for her birthday (it's in a couple weeks, but she saw the box when it was delivered and nothing would stop her from wanting it open. Not the cold, not a militia, nothing. I'm a big guy and I was scared not to let her open it). We got it set up, but then she was upset she couldn't play with it until her cast came off. She'll have about a month and a half of freedom before the surgery. Poor kid.
Alright for my recommendation this week, do a search for a local bakery. No, not Kneaders or Paradise bakery. Those places are not good. I'm talking an actual local bakery. Do a search and you'll be surprised how many there are. Schmidt's is ok. Some of their things are really good, and some are really mediocre. Their danishes are not good. Go and try a bakery you've never tried before. Not Kneaders or Paradise.
Thanks for reading! Winter is throwing one last tantrum for the next week, but spring will come, and it will be glorious.
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