July 27, 2008
Juggy Adventure!
On Saturday, Kristin and I took our nephew, whom I affectionately call Jugdish, to Adventure Landing in Raleigh. On the trip over, he told us that he hopes Barack Obama beats John McCain. That was nice - now we all had something we could agree on, although I learned when you pushed him on the issues, he had a difficult time articulating his beliefs. Anyway, we got there early so there weren’t that many people there and we had the place more or less to ourselves for a while.We let him play all the skateboarding/motorcycling/race car driving games he could handle. We played games where you knock over ducks with a boxing glove and went on a roller coaster simulation that rocked up all over the place and scared the little fella. Awww, isn’t that precious? Then he disturbed us greatly when he saw a dinosaur shooting game, grabbed the blue gun out of the holster and boldly stated he wanted to play. He then told me to watch as he turned the gun ninety degrees to the left, giving his shooting a little bit of a “gangsta” feel. I should have asked the five-year-old where he learned that, but instead my mouth fell agape as he terminated those dino-punks.
Deciding a change in venue was appropriate, we went outside to the go-kart track. Totally awesome! Since Jugdish was under 56 inches tall, I “had” to ride with him. Ha! They had these cool little two-seater cars with a steering wheel in front of both seats, but only one that worked. Luckily, I sat behind the working one and we were off. We must have passed 5-6 cars, inside, outside, you name it, we did it. Juggy was turning his wheel as we hit the turns, and we laughed as we passed these non-driving fools. Only one car passed us, a dorky little man accompanied by his little girl bumped us and went around us like we were standing still. We were on a straightaway so I don’t think he was a better driver than me – I just think he had a better engine or less weight. I momentarily thought about lightening my load, but then I considered the consequences. We started and two-person team, we’d end a two-person team.
We finished up, drove home, watched a little Pokemon, and his mom picked him up. Afterwards, Kristin and I took our normal nap after spending time with little people. All in all, a good time was had by all. I am much more comfortable with a kid that isn’t a newborn, one that understands consequences, and one that can handle their liquor (I kid, I joke with you!). It’s a fun day to breeze in, play aunt and uncle for a short spell, and then renew our awesome childfree lifestyle. Go us!
Posted by ed at 21:23 | Comments (1) | Trackbacks (0)
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I can't help but notice how many of your activities end with a nap.
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at July 28,2008 08:22
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