X-Box Fun

Here's a photo of Daddy and Madison visiting the Haunted Mansion in Disneyland - via the Kinect, of course.  We got this game way back at Christmas, and are still nowhere near complete with it.  Part of that reason Madison wanting to go back and ride certain rides over and over again.  Like Neverland, the Matterhorn, and Pirates of the Caribbean.  The game takes pictures of you as you play, and you can keep them for later - so here's a shot of us above.  I love how airborne Madison is there.

It would be completely awesome if they did a version of this for Disney World, which we're very familiar with, of course.  Although they are adding a bunch of real estate to Fantasyland this year, so that might be a reason for waiting.  Still, Disneyland is close enough.  Daddy's been there once, but doesn't remember it much.  Now we go all the time on our television set:  this is amazing technology, really.  She leads the way and dresses up as different characters.  Today, she was Jasmine.  We ran around the park, helping out different characters, and of course visiting several rides.  There are smaller missions that certain characters ask you to accomplish - currently we're doing favors for Cinderella, Pinocchio and Princess Aurora.  It's great because both Daddy and Madison can play at the same time, running around the park, sneaking through a haunted mansion, skiing down the Matterhorn, swimming with Nemo, and my favorite:  flying over London with Tinkerbell.  There are actually a lot of games on this, and so much stuff to do.  It's the current favorite Kinect game right now, actually - although we'll be bowling again soon.

Daddy downloaded another Kinect mini-game, but we haven't gone and played it yet.  Maybe you'll be hearing about that one soon - it has something to do with simulating a Mars landing.  We'll see how Madison does with that one:  maybe that will be our theme for the day.

Madison did have some keyboard practice today, and afterwards, we had  delicious shrimp dinner prepared by Mommy.  We had the X-box on a lot lately, and saw an interesting little option:  we could watch the Republican political convention through the game system - so after Madison went to bed, Mommy and Daddy watched the convention via the X-box.  It's pretty wild, this technology.  I would not have thought I'd be turning on a video game system to watch a political event in Florida live.  But there you go.

By the way, we thought the speeches were good.  It was cool seeing Clint Eastwood there too.

"I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen.  Something that I think is very important.  It is that, you, we -- we own this country." - Clint Eastwood