Ham Nite

Tonight we had Ham Nite, which was a rather amusing idea we got from a movie we watched this afternoon:  "The Pirates!  Band of Misfits."  With everything quiet, we had a nice opportunity to slip out and see a movie, just the three of us.  We nearly had the entire theater to ourselves!  This theater was over in Cumming, and actually was significantly cheaper - and in 3D.  Therefore, I think we might be heading over that way for a while now.  Seriously, we saved enough money to buy concessions (translated:  a lot of money!).  As for the movie, we give it thumbs up.  Ask Daddy about pirate movies in general, and there's an "arrr" of approval before the thing has usually started.  Any movie with pirates is going to have favor initially, and this one kept things going along nicely.  Madison enjoyed it too:  she turned to us at the end and told us, "That movie cracked me up!"

As for Ham Nite (or Ham Night if you want to be all proper), we did indeed have a bit of ham to honor the day:  we went over to the Cracker Barrel for dinner, where we had a bit of ham - and other assorted food items.  The sky opened up while we were there, and a heavy rain poured down.  The weather has been quite tropical lately, actually.  But as this rain came through, things cooled down a bit outside.  It's been rather unusual for May - it feels unseasonably cooler, really.  Certainly after those bits in March and April that were extraordinarily hot.

Madison has had a little bit of a cold lately - you read it here first from last Friday.  Maybe not allergies after all, but a persistent cough has kept with her these past few days.  We've been keeping the cough medicine around, and fortunately she's sleeping well at night.  Tonight, she went to bed a little earlier than normal, just because Mommy and Daddy felt it was a wise idea.  Daddy read to her a book from Ponyville, which she enjoyed a lot.  She's still into My Little Pony.  But she's into the Avengers too - you should have seen her looking at individual posters at the movie theater today.  She came out of the theater and looked at one poster and said, "Black Widow."  Then she proceeded to identify the other remaining Avengers one by one.  That's my girl!

All in all, it was a nice relaxing day.  We had some fun with Playdoh in the morning, cleaned up a little, and slept in a while to just for good measure.  We plundered the kitchen for breakfast and sailed off for the movies early in the afternoon, even stopping by Goodwill for a bit of random shopping.  Things will pick up tomorrow, I'm sure.  But until then, it was nice to sit back and relax - and recover still.  Daddy's still got a few issues, but he'll be back on board saying "arrr" and so forth pretty soon.  A pirate's life for me!

"It's only impossible if you stop to think about it."
- The Pirate Captain