Week 8

 It's time to head to CAMP FRIED!!!  Hip hip hooray!!  Give me an "F", give me an "R," give me an "I"...

okay, you get the picture!   


We started off the week by celebrating Grandma Wen Wen's special day!  She took the day off of work and we all splashed around at the Germantown Splash Park!  We stood under water mushrooms, had buckets of water dumped on our heads and spent a lot of time sitting on big water spraying animals!  Auntie Sarah, Cousin Logan, Cousin Hailey, Bubbe Linda and Papa Jim all shared in the fun!  Now it was a pretty hot day, so the fun should have stopped there, but we decided to push on and go for a game of miniature golf....this SEEMED like a good idea until our balls got hit into swamp land and the blazing DC sun got the better of us...the only one unphased by the weather was Aiden who was ready to play on!  I guess he was still used to the heat of Dubai:)  We finished off Grandma's bday with a special dinner at the Burgin's!


The next day, Auntie Sarah packed us in her special car (any car that shows movies is REALLY special!)  and we headed to Camp Fried!  Chuck E Cheese was our big adventure for the day. The kids had a super time playing all the games, winning tickets and eating pizza....The highlight was the photo booth game, we could never really quite get everyone in, but we spent a lot of tokens trying!!

Wednesday Aiden and Mia saw their very first movie!  The movie theater shows dollar movies on Wednesdays so we bought our tickets for the "toddler" pick of the week "Katate Kid 3" (with Jaden Smith). Yes, you heard me, we took one two-year old, two four-year olds and an eight year old (GIRL) to see Karate Kid.  (you ask what were we thinking?  we were thinking "it's hot outside and the movie is a dollar!"  Right.  Well, Mia lasted an hour--pretty good I thought...then I made my two year old into a criminal and we snuck into "Winnie the Pooh" instead.  (Winnie the Pooh would have cost $8 a person, just in case you were wondering!) We enjoyed that but kept checking for the others...they finally appeared after another hour AND THE MOVIE WAS STILL GOING ON!!!  We all had had enough and made it home with only minor melt downs!

Wednesday night was very excited...we were invited to Sarah and Andy's very good friends' house--Payton and Evan. They just put in a BEAUTIFUL brand NEW salt POOL...that's right, their own pool!  On the way to our evening activity, Sarah was telling me a funny story about how Logan had pee'd on the side of the pool the first time they went swimming...apparently Evan hosed her down like he was putting out a fire...yes, this story is very important as I share the events that soon unfolded...

Both kids were suited up, Aiden in his bathing suit, Mia in her swim diaper, bathing suit and sun block. So we get in the pool and we're having a grand time...until...Payton says "is Mia okay?" And I look at her, see her holding her tush and then all of a sudden, what appears to be brown mud is floating all around her. YES ALL AROUND HER. I hear screams and panic as everyone is told to evacuate the poopy pool...As Sarah takes my daughter, dripping in brown from the pool, I am running around the pool trying to collect it. YES, collect it in my hands...grossed out yet?  Evan runs inside to check the internet....Payton is on a 911 call to the Pool guy to figure out the protocol for a disaster of this kind. Turns out the pool has to be closed down for 16 hours. Uuuggh...needless to say, they were good sports about it, but seriously...seriously? seriously.

Next day we spend dry and duckpin bowling. THAT was awesome. It was this old fashioned alley where everything was done manually--even the reset buttons! we got two lanes (2 kids per lane) and all shoes were free! Hooray!  Aiden LOVED it. He was getting pretty good by the end and used the full hour. Mia could even lift the balls, but thought bowling meant ANYWhere...we went home and Sarah and I spent the afternoon out (yep, we left 4 kids with Lubia!) And we went to lunch and did some shopping...Hailey called a few times in hysterics, but mostly because Aiden and Mia were battling it out...all the kids were troopers and Sarah and I got special time together which was SO nice!

The end of the week was spent training Andy and Sarah on the TRX (yep, trying to get everyone hooked!) And going to Port Discovery. The kids had a blast getting lost in the play structure, of course the adults took turns having heart attacks when we couldn't find them right away, but it was a great outing. We got brave at night and tried the pool thing again, this time we went to Sarah and Andy's pool where we met all their friends. Turns out their pool is like a water park! They have water slides, a whirlpool (that makes you feel like you're being flushed in a toilet...Aiden LOVED this, and a kiddy pool area with water sprayers that made water mushrooms where Mia liked to hide. Thank goodness there was NO incident!

On our last day, the kids all made a super special sign for Michael to let them know how much they missed him...will send asap.

The week was amazing and Sarah was SOOOO nice to drive us home...we left wishing we could stay longer which is always a good thing!