Our family has been in the dumps with a mild sickness since Christmas. We decided to lay out of church one more Sunday to make sure we don't start the germ fest all over again. We are all tired of feeling crummy and would like to re-enter society.
Side Note: I would be the worst person in life to have a chronically ill person over here.
We also like to make Sunday's our "Sabbath Adventure Day". Today we decided to take the crew to bowl at 9:30am. As you might assume we had the whole place to ourselves.
Here we are...freshly rolled out of bed and no one wanting to take a family self portrait (can't bring myself to you the word "selfie" here).
The big boyz were PUMPED!
The enjoyed approximately 3 or 4 frames and then found other entertainment.
At the end of one hour we were barely hanging on to their attention span.
We decided to try a few games. I took this picture because if you look closely you can see Mike and Grahams hair being blown back by a fan on the game. It's supposed to be a realistic version of riding your motorcycle and having the wind blow through your hair...gross recirculated bowling alley air....we somehow narrowly missed death this time. :)
Track seems to be a natural on this motor bike thing, which I hope it no indication of our future. I am pretty sure the devil himself invented motorcycles. That's in the bible...I've seen it.
Ok - so all and all I think we would give our adventure a "B-". It was a new experience for the boys and that was fun, but it was also one will WILL NOT repeat any time soon.
We went to the Main Event in Plano and if you care about what your toddlers eyes are exposed to - then this is not your place. Music videos blaring and showing on all jumbo screens where the pins are (at 10am - ridiculous). Other screens showing movies with fight scenes, guns and monsters. On the first riding game it finished with two half dressed women cartoons doing a sexy dance holding up what place you got. REALLY? After writing this... I thought for a brief moment, "maybe it's just me being a prude - that place isn't geared for toddlers", but then they generously offer toddler shoes, bumper lanes, and ramps....so...
At least we know that for our family we would rather doing something else and something way less over stimulating. I'm thinking if we try bowling again it will need to be at an old school place that just does dumpy old bowling. The kids might suffer from second hand smoke, from what I can remember, but at least they won't see junk they shouldn't.
This is only the beginning of protecting their hearts and minds.
Lets Hear it for Innocence
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