Let's Roll

Another full day today, this one starting out at Lowe's for the next monster truck to be built, one called Blue Thunder.  This is a big deal, this one.  The reason is because Madison was completely self-sufficient in creating it.  For some reason, she just completely got the concept of hammering nails just right, whereas up until now it's been largely Daddy coming in afterwards to sort of drive those nails completely in.  This time around, Madison did it all. She read the instructions, and put the entire truck together entirely by herself.  Bravo!

After creating that rolling vehicle, we went to another place to roll:  Buford's Skate Country.  Today was Kids Day Out, something we got there early for, as you can see by this photo below.

This rink would soon be absolutely packed.  There were squillions of kids here today, and it was almost kind of dangerous to be out there skating around.  One area (to Madison's left there along the wall) became known as "Kenny Loggins' Danger Zone" due to all the horizontal traffic.  No one just veers off or merges in a rink anymore - no, it's darting about at perpendicular angles, without even looking.

Fortunately, Madison never really fell that much.  And the neat thing is this:  she's gotten much better at skating.  Having skated just last week, she sort of got the hang of things and has started moving a whole lot faster now.

Oh, and there were friends there too.  Here's Camille, but there were plenty of other friends there as well.  All the staff was there, and a whole lot of volunteers were there as well - it was a really fun day at the skating rink.  Daddy was taken out by some kids, and even as I type this, I'm amazingly sore.  An Indiana Jones quote pretty much sums it up:  "It's not the years.  It's the mileage."

We got home, and there was plenty of piano homework to do.  We had intentions of going to get a Shamrock Shake today after skating, by the way.  But after visiting three different McDonald's, we realized that they probably aren't making them this year.  This was initially a bummer, but Madison suggested why not just have green mint ice cream tonight?  So that's what we did!  After piano, we had some green mint ice cream, our very own Shamrock Shake, and that suited everyone just fine.

Daylight Savings Time is tomorrow, and it isn't the friendly one.  So we got to bed a little earlier tonight.  Before doing that, we plugged in the Game Cube and did some Mario Party 4.  But not too much - because bedtime was awaiting, where there was more reading from our two books, and an early night's rest.  The activity of the last two days has gotten us all exhausted enough to need to get some rest.  So... that said... goodnight!